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Coastal zone management; oil pollution; Torrey Canyon Disaster of 1967; maritime law
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Oil Pollution And The Coastal State, J. T. O'Brien
Oil Pollution And The Coastal State, J. T. O'Brien
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It will be the purpose of this paper to pose and answer this question...How has the legal competence of a coastal state been strengthened with respect to that state's ability to prevent marine oil pollution? The question by implication presupposes that a certain change in legal competence is in fact occurring. The legal and historical baseline from which to gauge this gradual change will be established by reviewing past milestones in oil pollution law. A closer examination will then be made of recent evolutionary changes in both international and national oil pollution law subsequent to the Torrey Canyon Disaster of …