The Fourth Arm of Defense: American Merchant Mariners Finally Receive Their Medals
On July 17, 2026, a civilian-crewed ship received the Presidential [...]
Who Decides Who Decides? The Fifth Circuit’s Hill v. Jackson Offshore Decision and the Hidden Power of Arbitration Clauses
A single sentence in a post-injury arbitration agreement decided not [...]
The Guardian and the Tollbooth: What a 20% Hormuz Fee Would Mean for the Crews Who Sail It
The United States has declared itself “the Guardian of the [...]
Lone Star Leading Them All: Galveston’s T/S Elissa Takes America’s 250th By Storm
For a Texas maritime lawyer, it is a rare pleasure [...]
Narrow Waters, Wide Wake: The Scars of the Strait of Hormuz Crisis
The Strait of Hormuz is” reopening”, and the tankers are [...]
Floating Nuclear Power: A New Offshore Energy Frontier?
Small modular reactors, shipyard construction, island energy security, and the [...]
Waived Goodbye: What the Data Says About the Wartime Jones Act Waiver and National Security
A new independent analysis of federal shipping data finds that [...]
The Price of a Closed Courthouse Door: A New Report on “Tort Reform” and Maritime Workers (and others!)
A consumer watchdog has just tallied up the groups (and [...]
Robots on the Reef: What Autonomous Mine-Hunting Technology Means for Maritime Commerce
A Vermont robotics company is redefining mine countermeasure operations in [...]
Bound for New York: The Real Deal Sets Sail
A 149-year-old iron barque just left Galveston — the oldest [...]