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Legal Aspects Of Mutual Non-Denial And The Relations Across The Taiwan Straits, Chun-i Chen 
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Legal Aspects Of Mutual Non-Denial And The Relations Across The Taiwan Straits, Chun-I Chen
Maryland Journal of International Law
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Maritime Piracy: Changes In U.S. Law Needed To Combat This Critical National Security Concern, Daniel Pines 
Seattle University School of Law
Maritime Piracy: Changes In U.S. Law Needed To Combat This Critical National Security Concern, Daniel Pines
Seattle University Law Review
Piracy threatens, and has taken, the lives of American crews and civilians. It poses an enormous economic threat, both in terms of ransom payments and impact on global commerce. It enhances political instability in significant regions of the world, such as the Horn of Africa and the Straits of Malacca. Most critically, though, maritime piracy offers an easy and tempting conduit for terrorism. Terrorists have already used maritime options to advance their cause in several dramatic attacks, including the hijacking of a cruise ship (and murder of a Jewish passenger), the ramming of a boat into a U.S. destroyer ...
Overreach On The High Seas?: Whether Federal Maritime Law Preempts California's Vessel Fuel Rules , Bradley D. Easterbrooks 
Pepperdine University
Overreach On The High Seas?: Whether Federal Maritime Law Preempts California's Vessel Fuel Rules , Bradley D. Easterbrooks
Pepperdine Law Review
This Comment addresses whether California’s Vessel Fuel Rules, which require all foreign and U.S. flagged vessels traveling within twenty-four miles of California's coastline to use low-sulfur content fuels, is preempted by the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution. More specifically, this Comment addresses whether the Clean Air Act, the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL), the Submerged Lands Act, and/or general principles of federal maritime law prohibit the California Air Resources Board from enforcing its Vessel Fuel Rules against vessels engaged in maritime commerce in navigable waters, particularly waters beyond the ...
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