Explore maritime law, its importance in governing international waters, safeguarding shipping and trade, and its role in ...

"Whether a contract is maritime bears upon numerous substantive legal rights of the parties," writes Blank Rome's Keith Letourneau. In the Fifth Circuit, for the longest time, deciding whether a ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to James Kraska - a professor of international maritime law at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island - about the legality of the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports.

Maritime contracts are known for including choice-of-law provisions, designating a specific jurisdiction's laws to govern potential disputes. The enforceability of these provisions falls under federal ...