The University of Western Brittany (UBO) is a multidisciplinary university in Brest, France. AMURE (Center for the law and economics of the sea) is a Joint Research Unit (UMR) between UBO and the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER). It is a merging of the economic and juridical research previously conducted in Brest by the Center for the Law and Economics of the Sea of UBO (CEDEM) and the Marine Economics Department (DEM) in IFREMER. It is part of the European Institute of Marine Studies (IUEM) created in 1997 to regroup all research in Marine Sciences in UBO.