The Gate of Tears and the Gate of Tolls
Two Chokepoints, One Crew, and the Law That Follows Them [...]
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07, 2026
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07, 2026
The Waiver That Will Not Weigh Anchor: The White House Weighs a Third U.S. Jones Act Extension
A century-old law reserving trade between American ports for American [...]
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07, 2026
Aqueous Firm-Forming Foam: Fire, “Forever Chemicals”, and the Crews Caught in the Middle
An International Maritime Organization rule took effect this January, and [...]
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07, 2026
If You Build These Ships, We Will Crew Them: Texas A&M Maritime Academy Training Ship TS LONE STAR STATE Christened
Champagne on a bow is one of the few workplace [...]
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07, 2026
The Fourth Arm of Defense: American Merchant Mariners Finally Receive Their Medals
On July 17, 2026, a civilian-crewed ship received the Presidential [...]
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07, 2026
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 [...]
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07, 2026
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 [...]
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07, 2026
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 [...]
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07, 2026
Narrow Waters, Wide Wake: The Scars of the Strait of Hormuz Crisis
The Strait of Hormuz is” reopening”, and the tankers are [...]
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07, 2026
Floating Nuclear Power: A New Offshore Energy Frontier?
Small modular reactors, shipyard construction, island energy security, and the [...]