The following article is the text of the speech at the “The Individual, The Society and Sustainable Development from Globaliziation to Glocalization” conference, with addition of basic bibliography. Held in Tirana on 14 April 2016 at Hena e Plote Beder University. The study has the purpose to examine the role of Roman law on protecting the marine environment. In the last decades of the Republic, and in the mid first century A.D. arose the first jurisprudential attempts conceptual definition of litus maris and its extension and were processed interventions of Roman praetors aimed at controlling the use of the sea and, therefore, to navigation and maritime commerce. The result was a situation articulated of what it was intended to outline some profiles.