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Reforming The Limitation Act: We’Ll Cross That Bridge When We Get There? Well, We’Re Here And That Bridge Has Already Fallen, Marianne E. Adams Apr 2026

Reforming The Limitation Act: We’Ll Cross That Bridge When We Get There? Well, We’Re Here And That Bridge Has Already Fallen, Marianne E. Adams

University of Miami Law Review

When the M/V Dali, a Singaporean-flagged container ship, struck Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March 2024, the foreign vessel owners turned to a centuries-old American statute that allows shipowners to limit their liability to the post-accident value of a vessel. The Limitation of Liability Act of 1851 (the “Limitation Act” or “Act”) was originally designed to protect and promote a nascent American shipping industry from the unpredictable perils of nineteenth-century seas. Today, however, it operates in a vastly different maritime economy, where foreign-flagged vessel owners routinely rely on the Act to shield themselves from full financial responsibility. In …


Strategic Insights From Antarctic Mpas: Navigating The Future Framework For High Seas Mpas Under The Bbnj Agreement, Alyssa Huffman Apr 2025

Strategic Insights From Antarctic Mpas: Navigating The Future Framework For High Seas Mpas Under The Bbnj Agreement, Alyssa Huffman

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

Current area-based management systems regulate only about 1.18% of the high seas, leaving highly migratory fish species at risk of overexploitation. As a result, new legal mechanisms are essential for protecting and managing high seas fisheries. In recent decades, stakeholders have debated how to balance competing interests while ensuring equitable and sustainable access to areas beyond national jurisdiction. One proposed solution is the establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). However, creating and managing high seas MPAs is a complex process. The Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources have undertaken this effort, establishing two MPAs …


Maritime Magic: How Cruise Lines Can Avoid State Law Compliance Through Passenger Contracts, Cameron Chuback Jul 2022

Maritime Magic: How Cruise Lines Can Avoid State Law Compliance Through Passenger Contracts, Cameron Chuback

University of Miami Law Review

Florida Statutes section 381.00316 prohibits businesses in Florida from requiring consumers to provide documentary proof of COVID-19 vaccination to access businesses’ goods and services. Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (“NCLH”) has recently challenged section 381.00316’s applicability to its cruise operations because NCLH believes that requiring its passengers to provide documentary proof of COVID-19 vaccination is the one constant that allows NCLH’s cruise ships to smoothly access foreign ports, which have differing COVID-19 protocols and rules. In Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, Ltd. v. Rivkees, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida ruled in favor of NCLH on this …


Lost At Sea: The Continuing Decline Of The Supreme Court In Admiralty, Michael Sevel Aug 2017

Lost At Sea: The Continuing Decline Of The Supreme Court In Admiralty, Michael Sevel

University of Miami Law Review

For the first 200 years of its history, the United States Supreme Court served as the primary leader in the development of, and its cases the primary source of, the admiralty and maritime law of the United States. That appears to be changing. The Court’s admiralty cases over the last quarter century indicate that it is slowly giving up its traditional leading role in creating and developing rules of admiralty law, and instead deferring to Congress to make those rules, a trend that is tantamount to abandoning its Article III constitutional duty to serve as the country’s only national admiralty …


Carrier Liability For Damages Incurred By Ship Passengers: The European Union As A Trailblazer Towards A Global Liability Regime?, Stefan Kirchner, Grit Tüngler, Jan Martin Hoffmann Dec 2015

Carrier Liability For Damages Incurred By Ship Passengers: The European Union As A Trailblazer Towards A Global Liability Regime?, Stefan Kirchner, Grit Tüngler, Jan Martin Hoffmann

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

No abstract provided.


How Piracy Has Shaped The Relationship Between American Law And International Law, Joel H. Samuels Jun 2010

How Piracy Has Shaped The Relationship Between American Law And International Law, Joel H. Samuels

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Historic Salvage And The Law Of The Sea, David J. Bederman Oct 1998

Historic Salvage And The Law Of The Sea, David J. Bederman

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


Schiffahartsgesellschaft Leonhardt: A Dangerous Precedent For The Effectiveness Of The Supplemental Rules For Certain Admiralty And Maritime Claims, James D. Garbus Mar 1986

Schiffahartsgesellschaft Leonhardt: A Dangerous Precedent For The Effectiveness Of The Supplemental Rules For Certain Admiralty And Maritime Claims, James D. Garbus

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.


Ancillary Jurisdiction In Admiralty: Smooth Sailing For Impleading Of Non-Maritime Causes Of Action, Ernesto J. De La Fé Jan 1986

Ancillary Jurisdiction In Admiralty: Smooth Sailing For Impleading Of Non-Maritime Causes Of Action, Ernesto J. De La Fé

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


Priority Of Maritime Liens In The Western Hemisphere: How Secure Is Your Claim?, Ivon D'Almeida Pires-Filho Apr 1985

Priority Of Maritime Liens In The Western Hemisphere: How Secure Is Your Claim?, Ivon D'Almeida Pires-Filho

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.