12/03/2012 Update: Josh Keating was nice enough to put up with my good-natured sarcasm to tell me the Moot Court link provide below doesn't work. Not sure why this is, but http://www.cusli.org/niagara/2010_2011_archive.html is the full site, and it's available through cusli.org. [Full instructions: go to cusli.org; put your mouse cursor over "Niagara" on the sites top banner; click "Archives"; and then,finally, click "2011"; at which point, you shall see the materials for the 2010-2011 Niaraga Moot Court Competition involving an Arctic martime dispute between Canada and the United States.] Sorry for the technical difficulties.
FP's Joshua Keating blogs on outstanding Canada-U.S. territorial disputes. He correctly notes that while Machias Island may be attracting the NYTimes attention--and that of Stephen R. Kelly of the Center for Canadian Studies at Duke University--that the perhaps issue may be emerging maritime claims between these two strong allies.
Craving more than a Wikipedia listing of disputes, and some legal analysis for how two of these issues may be resolved? Check out CUSLI's archives for the 2011 Niagara International Moot Court. It's a fascinating moot case, written by CWRU law professor Michael Scharf, dealing with the legal status of the emerging Northwest Passage and the Canadian-U.S. Beaufort Sea territorial disputes.
P.S. Law students, take heart, while you can't use Wikipedia as a source, FP bloggers can. Yes, this should be mocked, especially since spending another 30 seconds Googling would have found this much better graphic and article from The Globe and Mail which is sampled below:
