Financial caps for oil pollution damage: A historical mistake?

Marine Policy

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 592-606

  Faure, Michael ^a   Wang, Hui ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bilateral accident; Civil Liability Convention (CLC); Deterrence; Financial caps; Fund Convention; Interest group; Limitation of liability; path dependency; Strict liability; The (IOPC) Fund; Unilateral accident

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT; MARINE POLICY; OIL POLLUTION; POLLUTION POLICY;

EID: 42149170067     PISSN: 0308597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2007.10.008     Document Type: Article

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