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Sovereignty Over the Waterways: Roman vs. Modern Views
Professor Richard Epstein discusses what it means for governments to hold public waterways “in trust.” Modern societies must develop and enforce rules to govern shared waters because of the high demand for the resource. Professor Epstein explains that a simple natural law system, such as Roman law, did not require this governmental oversight. The Romans had limited private usage of water and sparse population, so waterways were never overburdened. https://youtube.com/watch?v=xNlQM3KjXKs