In his Admiralty Law column, James E. Mercante discusses the collision between Navy warship USS John S. McCain and oil and chemical tanker Alnic MC, as well as the trial that followed in the Southern ...

Shigeru Oda, a long-serving judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) who upset the Japanese public with a dissenting opinion concerning nuclear warfare, died on Sept. 4. He was 100.

It is said that a collision at sea will ruin your whole day. It can also be fatal and ruin careers. One such collision punctuates this in a big, expensive, and tragic way. Ten Navy sailors died and 31 ...