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Towards a temporal approach of the law of the sea: Addressing slow violence through legal longtermism

César Soares de Oliveira & Vonintsoa Rafaly

Marine Policy2026https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2026.107049article
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The interests of future generations are among the main concerns of ocean justice scholarship. Yet, there is an indeterminacy on the extent of the future generations: Our children? Our future grandchildren? Or the vast unknown number of humans that will exist throughout the next millennia? Far from resolving this ethical question, this contribution introduces the concept of longtermism as an analytical framework to rethink ocean justice across temporalities (past, present and future). Amidst the temporally confined and constrained vision of ocean governance, longtermism expands our understanding of ocean justice to the slow and often invisible violence, harm and injustices that legal and governance infrastructures of the sea have sustained and reinforced over time. This contribution calls for a temporal approach of the law of the sea as a new paradigm, alongside the zonal and functional approaches, as a vital dimension to understanding the agency of legal and governance infrastructures in fostering or hindering ocean justice and stewardship.

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@article{césar2026,
  title        = {{Towards a temporal approach of the law of the sea: Addressing slow violence through legal longtermism}},
  author       = {César Soares de Oliveira & Vonintsoa Rafaly},
  journal      = {Marine Policy},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2026.107049},
}

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