This article discusses the interaction between New Zealand's marine pollution liability regime, which is divided between the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) and the Maritime Transport Act 1994 (MTA), and the country's maritime limitation of liability regime. The former encompasses both...

Tensions between Lebanon and Israel have been running high during the last months due to a legal dispute over rights to newly discovered natural oil and gas reserves in the Mediterranean Sea. Formally at war for years, and without diplomatic relations, Israel and Lebanon have never agreed on a...

A survey of legal developments in maritime law, including an initiative to reform the Fisheries Act, limits on the subject matter giving rise to federal admiralty jurisdiction, application of the limitation in the Marine Liability Act on contractual choices of foreign jurisdictions, application...

Sovereign rights in Exclusive economic zones and Continental shelves are functionally limited to the economic exploitation of these zones. Moreover, in the case of disputed maritime zones these sovereign rights are neither exclusive nor necessarily constant. Nevertheless, states are still...