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Spring 2023

6239 Admiralty Environmental and Insurance Claims - ENGERRAND- 17830

Professor(s): Kenneth Engerrand (ADJUNCT)

Credits: 2

Course Areas: International Law 
Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Law

Time: INTERSESSION  Intersession Week  Location: 100 

Course Outline: The Deepwater Horizon blowout resulted in more than 500,000 claims and payments of more than $60 billion, and the waters of the United States see collisions, allisions, injuries, spills, and discharges every day. Admiralty Environmental and Insurance Issues teaches the civil and criminal remedies available for the environmental claims resulting from these incidents as well as the insurance issues applicable when there is a marine accident.

Course Syllabus: Syllabus

Course Notes: (Independent Studies)  The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis; however, this course will be operated as a Face to Face course. After student registration opens, there may be instruction mode changes to this course up through two weeks before the first day of classes for the term, but notice of such changes will be sent to then-registered students. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.


This class will meet on January 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 from 9 AM - 12:00 PM and 1-2:50 PM with 10 minute break each day. The final exam will be on Saturday January 14, 2023 at 9 AM.

Prerequisites:  

First Day Assignments:

Final Exam Schedule: 01/14 9-11am      

This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:


Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No

Experiential Course Type: No

Bar Course: No

DistanceEd ABA: No

Pass-Fail Student Election: Available

Course Materials

Special Case

REQUIRED TEXT
Assignments will be to Cases and Materials, Admiralty Environmental
and Insurance Claims, by Kenneth G. Engerrand, available from the Law Center
prior to the start of classes.