Admiralty Seminar

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The goal of this seminar is to introduce you to some issues in admiralty law that are not dealt with in our core admiralty classes or, in many cases, in the more advanced upper-level classes, either because there is not time to cover them or because they are fast-developing issues of the present moment. In the first three weeks of class, I will give presentations on some suggested research paper topics of this kind, including decarbonization of the shipping industry, “green” ship financing, human rights at sea, and ship recycling (formerly known as scrapping). By the fourth week of semester, you should have developed at least some tentative ideas about the topic for your research paper. Each of you will have to make a “work in progress” presentation to the class at some point during the semester, according to a schedule to be agreed.