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Recent Development, Christopher A. Walker
Recent Development, Christopher A. Walker
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
On February 28, 1985, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) proposed rules governing the incineration of liquid organic hazardous wastes at sea. By providing specific criteria governing at-sea incineration' the proposed rules would modify the provisions of the Ocean Dumping regulations. After more than a year of discussions among waste handlers, the EPA, and citizen and environmental groups over the merits and risks of at-sea incineration the EPA promulgated the rules. The EPA's rulemaking process drew an immediate and heated response from the public, and attracted the attention of several Congressional committees. Three years after proposing the …
A Comparison Of Soviet And American Maritime Arbitration, Timothy A. Power
A Comparison Of Soviet And American Maritime Arbitration, Timothy A. Power
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Maritime arbitration has a long history both in the United States, where it dates from the late 19th century, and in the Soviet Union, where the permanent arbitration body known as the Maritime Arbitration Commission (MAC or Commission) has existed since 1930. Although both countries have similar procedures for maritime arbitration, the history, ideology, and commercial goals of each country have created systems that differ markedly in approach and style. The American experience has fostered an ad hoc system where the parties establish arbitration panels as disputes arise and where the parties have almost unlimited discretion in choosing arbitrators and …
Book Review, Christopher C. Joyner
Book Review, Christopher C. Joyner
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The message sounded in Marine Pollution and the Law of the Sea is that it is not too late. International law can still be fashioned to control marine pollution more prudently, more effectively, and more comprehensively. The critical ingredient, however, for obtaining this self-imposed policy of international legal restraint is generation of the national political will among polluter governments to do so. To work efficaciously, law first must be agreed upon, then subscribed to, and ultimately, either obeyed or enforced. If international policies and programs are to work, governments must want them to work. In this modern era of rising …
Finding Federalism In The Admiralty: "The Devil's Own Mess" Revisited, J.B. Ruhl
Finding Federalism In The Admiralty: "The Devil's Own Mess" Revisited, J.B. Ruhl
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
The federalism aspect of the United States Supreme Court's admiralty jurisprudence has long been adrift.' No feature of admiralty law illustrates the Court's difficulties in this regard better than maritime wrongful death remedies. From the beginning of the Court's involvement with maritime wrongful death remedies in The Harrisburg to its most recent decision on the subject in Offshore Logistics v. Tallentire, the Court's jurisprudence in this area has been characterized by inconsistency.