Introduction 1
1 An Emergent Global Commons： Biodiversity—A Case Study of How Culture becomes Law and Nature becomes Empty Space 19
PART Ⅰ RES NULLIUS/TERRA NULLI US AND THE EPISTEMIC IMAGINARY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 57
2 Terra Nullius， Res Nullius and Res Communis：A Conceptual Confusion of Terms 57
3 Res Nullius—The Tragedy of the （Modern Global） Commons：From Grotius and the High Seas to the Internet 71
4 Covering Res that Move：Theory and Practice； Whales and Res Divini Juris 107
5 The Law of the Sea Extended Vertically into the Law of Outer Space， and the Law of Outer Space Reterritorializing the Earth 125
PART Ⅱ TWO CASES OF THE REVOCATION OF TERRA NULLIUS 153
6 The Western Sahara Case： Genealogies Captured by the Census 153
7 Negotiations and the Mabo Case：Comparative Epistemic Imaginaries 169
Conclusion： Beyond Empty Space—Expanding the Epistemological Repertoire of the Global Commons through Biofigural and Technological Imaginaries 195
Bibliography 201
Index 215