The first edition of this book was quickly acclaimed as the new leading text worldwide on the law and practice of pollution from ships. The forthcoming second edition deals with a variety of developments since the first edition published in 1998, including:
The effect of Erika and Prestige
Changes in international law on maritime safety and compensation
Analysis of the SCOPIC regime
New material on ports of refuge, trans-boundary movements and pollution from off-shore craft
Latest case law
Regulatory changes in the US
Enlarged chapters on enforcement of laws and criminal sanctions
Like its predecessor the second edition is superbly indexed and written clearly with the needs in mind of a wide international readership
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