Diverse areas of law regulate acts of rescue, often inconsistently. For example, maritime law mandates rescue, immigrant harboring law prohibits it, and tort law generally permits it but does not require it. Modern legal scholarship has focused principally on mandatory and permissive forms of rescue. With humanitarian actors facing prosecution for saving migrants\u27 lives in the Arizona desert and elsewhere, however, scholarly treatment of the phenomenon of prohibited rescue is increasingly urgent. By analyzing disparate regimes of rescue, and focusing on migrant rescue specifically, this Article makes three contributions. First, it argues that the law of rescue generally privileges property rights and commercial interests over the ethical...
This paper discusses the economic approach to the question whether there should be a legal duty to r...
This Article explores the life salvage rules under the general maritime law and under the 1912 life ...
When Alan Kurdi, a Syrian toddler, drowned in the Mediterranean while fleeing civil war in his home ...
The ongoing debate about the legal duty to rescue another person in peril is fraught with a familiar...
Search-and-Rescue NGOs in the Mediterranean have been increasingly criminalized. This criminalizatio...
International law provides a duty to rescue everyone in distress at sea. Rescue at sea often entails...
In the past, tort law has displayed reluctance to impose a duty to rescue or to compensate rescuers ...
Rescue and salvage operations take place in many sea voyages. Numerous technical and legal problems...
Clinicians and health researchers frequently encounter opportunities to rescue people. Rescue cases ...
International law requires that everyone rescued at sea shall be disembarked and delivered to a ‘pla...
The interest of suppressing migrant smuggling at sea is to be considered as part of state sovereignt...
International law requires that everyone rescued at sea shall be disembarked and delivered to a ‘pla...
Our legal code prescribes no general duty, other than moral, to come to the aid of another human bei...
Many scholars argue that international maritime salvage law, and particularly American salvage law, ...
This Note asserts that courts should continue to apply the traditional maritime rescue doctrine alon...
This paper discusses the economic approach to the question whether there should be a legal duty to r...
This Article explores the life salvage rules under the general maritime law and under the 1912 life ...
When Alan Kurdi, a Syrian toddler, drowned in the Mediterranean while fleeing civil war in his home ...
The ongoing debate about the legal duty to rescue another person in peril is fraught with a familiar...
Search-and-Rescue NGOs in the Mediterranean have been increasingly criminalized. This criminalizatio...
International law provides a duty to rescue everyone in distress at sea. Rescue at sea often entails...
In the past, tort law has displayed reluctance to impose a duty to rescue or to compensate rescuers ...
Rescue and salvage operations take place in many sea voyages. Numerous technical and legal problems...
Clinicians and health researchers frequently encounter opportunities to rescue people. Rescue cases ...
International law requires that everyone rescued at sea shall be disembarked and delivered to a ‘pla...
The interest of suppressing migrant smuggling at sea is to be considered as part of state sovereignt...
International law requires that everyone rescued at sea shall be disembarked and delivered to a ‘pla...
Our legal code prescribes no general duty, other than moral, to come to the aid of another human bei...
Many scholars argue that international maritime salvage law, and particularly American salvage law, ...
This Note asserts that courts should continue to apply the traditional maritime rescue doctrine alon...
This paper discusses the economic approach to the question whether there should be a legal duty to r...
This Article explores the life salvage rules under the general maritime law and under the 1912 life ...
When Alan Kurdi, a Syrian toddler, drowned in the Mediterranean while fleeing civil war in his home ...