Maritime Law

Women and children last: chivalry shown to have been thrown overboard – Sydney Morning Herald

FORGET chivalry at sea. It’s everyone for themselves on a sinking ship. While the unwritten maritime law of evacuating women and children from a sinking ship before men did play out on the Titanic, new research shows this is the … Continue reading

Confident in Their Ability to Win All Cases, Maritime Lawyers at Fitts Zehl Offer to Handle Cases on a Contingency Basis – Emailwire

The law firm with the highest verdict awarded in Dallas in 2011, Fitts Zehl has offered to handle all cases on a contingency basis, meaning that clients will not be charged for legal assistance services unless they win the case. … Continue reading

Mission to Africa Strengthens Global Partnerships – Military.com

In support of U.S. Africa Command’s mission, Coast Guardsmen from the Deployable Operations Group deployed to support the African Maritime Law Enforcement Partnership program. The program, commonly referred to as AMLEP, enables African partner …

Nigeria: Stakeholders Demand Total, Effective Port Reforms – AllAfrica.com

This has resulted in the enactment of some far reaching legislations and the maritime law by the National Assembly. This include the Coastal and Inland Shipping Act 2003, Council for the regulating of freight forwarding Act 2007, the United Nations … Continue reading

Law to save the seas needs our support – Bangkok Post

Last March marked the first ever UNCLOS-mediated maritime boundary dispute when the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea submitted an advisory opinion to settle a dispute between Bangladesh and Myanmar in the Bay of Bengal. Both parties accepted … Continue reading

Benham Rise: How the shelf was won – ABS-CBN

NAMRIA contacted UP Law Prof. Jay Batongbacal … Galo Carrera of Mexico, a CLCS Commissioner and colleague who had given maritime boundary workshops in the Philippines back in the 1990s. Over a cup of coffee in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Comm.

Georgia’s port authority wants to join Savannah River deepening lawsuit – The Post and Courier

The South Carolina Maritime Commission should be blocked from the case … obey South Carolina environmental rules and “must comply with South Carolina law, including orders, rulings, decisions, and opinions” of the state’s Supreme Court …

APNewsBreak: Ga. Ports Authority wants into suit – San Francisco Gate

The South Carolina Maritime Commission should be blocked from the case because … the Corps of Engineers must obey South Carolina environmental rules and “must comply with South Carolina law, including orders, rulings, decisions, and opinions” of the …

Lawmakers Pan DHS Waiver of Maritime Cargo Scanning Mandate – HSToday

ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, led the questioning of Napolitano on why DHS could not meet the maritime cargo scanning mandate set by the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-53), a … Continue reading

Sink or Swim: The Economic Impacts of an International Maritime Emissions System for Greenhouse Gases on the United States – Brookings Institution

European law mandated this action as the IMO had not finished a … This is in line with the long standing desire of the climate change community to raise revenues from maritime emissions regulations and transfer those revenues to developing … Continue reading