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Liability Waivers and Statutory Interpretation

In 1936, Congress passed a law to prevent companies in the business of transporting people across the ocean from writing liability waivers into their contracts. That law, currently codified at 46 U.S.C. 30527(a), reads as follows: The owner, master, manager, or agent of a vessel transporting passengers between ports in the United States, or between…

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Vanderbilt Law School
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George Washington University Law School
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Cornell Law School
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University of North Carolina School of Law
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Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Duke University School of Law
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University of Cambridge
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Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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University of Hawai'i, William S. Richardson School of Law.
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Cornell Law School
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Bluestone Law
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Vanderbilt Law School
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NYU School of Law
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New York University School of Law
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Emory University School of Law
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