The Invisible Salvage Convention of 1989

The Invisible Salvage Convention of 1989
 

The United States has a long and distinguished history of signing and then failing to ratify international treaties (League of Nations, anyone?). So when the U.S. does ratify a treaty—and especially one that impacts private rights between parties—one can usually assume that litigants and the Courts will take notice. Not so, it seems, with the 1989 International Convention on Salvage.(View PDF to read the rest of this article) .