Issues of the shipowner's liability for damage caused by oil pollution from sea-going vessels

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The article is devoted to the review and study of some issues of shipowners' liability for environmental pollution damage by oil products from sea-going vessels. Relevance of the work derives from the growing number of court cases in the Russian Federation, weak elaboration of the issue in the Russian scientific literature, and a lack of the unified law enforcement approach. The authors investigate international and national regulation, foreign and Russian law enforcement practices and come to the conclusion about necessity to bring the latter in compliance with international rules in force in the Russian Federation.

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Aleksandra I. Aleksenko

Higher School of Economics (HSE University)

Email: a-aleksenko@inbox.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5701-8656

private practitioner in the field of maritime law; assistant at the Department of Business Law, Faculty of Law

3 Bolshoy Trekhsvyatitelsky lane, Moscow, 109028, Russian Federation

Aleksandra S. Kasatkina

Higher School of Economics (HSE University)

Author for correspondence.
Email: akasatkina@hse.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4215-2419

Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor, Deputy Head of Business Law Department, Faculty of Law

3 Bolshoy Trekhsvyatitelsky lane, Moscow, 109028, Russian Federation

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