Arctic Oil Pollution and Legal Liability

From Ships to Offshore Installations
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-01991-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: IMLI Studies in International Maritime Law

This book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of the legal liability and compensation frameworks governing accidental oil pollution in the Arctic, addressing both ship-source spills and offshore installations.

As climate change transforms the Arctic into an increasingly accessible maritime and hydrocarbon frontier, existing liability regimes face unprecedented stress. Extreme cold, dynamic sea ice, remoteness, and limited response capacity disrupt the evidentiary and operational assumptions on which international and domestic oil pollution systems were built. Drawing on scientific analysis of oil behavior in ice-covered waters, the book demonstrates how Arctic conditions complicate detection, causation, compensation, and enforcement. Through a comparative assessment of the CLC/Fund regime, the U.S. Oil Pollution Act (OPA), and the fragmented offshore liability landscape, it reveals structural gaps in the global legal order. The Arctic emerges as a stress test for liability systems, exposing their conceptual and practical limits in volatile environments.

This book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in maritime law, Arctic governance, environmental law, and energy regulation, as well as policymakers engaged in polar and offshore regulation.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Basaran, Ilker K.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales See-, Luft- und Weltraumrecht
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Energierecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Physical Transformation

2. Governance of the Ocean and Legal Claims

3. Arctic Shipping

4. Arctic Drilling

5. Oil and Ice

6. Oil Pollution Liability from Ships

7. Oil Pollution Liability in the United States

8. Offshore Oil Pollution Liability

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Ilker K. Basaran is a Vice President, Client Advisor, Marine (Cargo & Logistics) at Marsh in Houston, advising on marine risk, insurance, and liability issues. He holds a PhD in international maritime law from the IMO International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI) and previously served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Texas A&M University at Galveston. He also holds advanced degrees from SUNY Maritime College and Temple University. He is an active member of the Comité Maritime International (CMI) and has published extensively on oil pollution liability, polar and marine governance, and international shipping regulation.