Australian and New Zealand Maritime Law Journal

2000: Conference Proceedings
Articles

The Maritime Law Year in the United States of America

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  • Howard McCormack

Published 2000-08-05

Keywords

  • oil pollution,
  • Oil Pollution Act 1990 (US),
  • marine pollution,
  • marine environment,
  • environmental damage,
  • Port and Waterway Safety Act of 1972 (US),
  • maritime arbitration,
  • New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards,
  • foreign arbitration award,
  • arbitration clause,
  • arbitration award,
  • enforcement of arbitral awards,
  • Himalaya clause,
  • package limitation,
  • seaworthiness,
  • substitution of cargo in containers,
  • deviation,
  • limitation of liability,
  • marine insurance,
  • bad faith,
  • material non-disclosure,
  • misrepresentation,
  • marine insurance fraud,
  • breach of trading warranty,
  • latent defect,
  • Inchmaree Clause,
  • due diligence,
  • general average,
  • salvage,
  • cargo interest,
  • seafarer claims,
  • seamen status,
  • choice of forum clause,
  • more appropriate forum,
  • private international law,
  • wrongful death claim,
  • personal injury claim,
  • Jones Act (US),
  • Death on the High Seas Act (US),
  • high seas,
  • environmental law,
  • abandonment,
  • derelict,
  • historic shipwreck,
  • The Titanic,
  • law of finds
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Abstract

McCormack discusses various maritime law issues in the United States which arose throughout the Maritime Law Year (1999-2000) to the extent that particular cases have been reported and are available for discussion, as well as how these issues and topics have been dealt with by the Federal Courts.

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