The National Sea Grant Law Center is excited to welcome Summer Research Associate Jordan Young, a 2L at Vermont Law and Graduate School. Jordan will take part in the Community Engaged Legal Internship Program, working with NSGLC and our project partner, Oregon Sea Grant.
The National Sea Grant Law Center is excited to welcome Summer Research Associate Tess Bradley, a 2L at Vermont Law and Graduate School. Tess will take part in the Community Engaged Legal Internship Program, working with NSGLC and our Sea Grant program partners on aquatic invasive species research.
This summer, the NSGLC will host three law students researching a variety of topics: aquaculture, invasive species, and more! In this webinar, the students will discuss their internship experiences and present findings from their research projects.
A new Advisory Request titled Regulation, Litigation, and Funding for Septic Systems in South Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia has been published.
The April 2026 issue of The SandBar is now available. The lead story is: Navigating Constitutional Waters: The Challenge to Hawaii’s Cruise Ship Tax.
This issue features articles developed through a symposium we supported in partnership with Maryland Sea Grant and the Georgetown Climate Center. Together, these contributions explore pressing environmental challenges facing the Chesapeake Bay region.
Join attorneys from the National Sea Grant Law Center for a webinar exploring the rapidly evolving legal and regulatory landscape surrounding PFAS. This session will break down key federal and state regulatory developments, as well as ongoing litigation involving PFAS.
An extension agent from UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant contacted NSGLC to request information on the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) import provisions and their implementation. Starting on January 1, 2026, all harvesting nations with commercial fisheries exporting fish and fish products to the United States must have received comparability findings from the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) confirming that their exporting fisheries meet the conditions in the MMPA import provisions. This advisory memo first provides background on the MMPA import provisions and 2016 rule implementing the provisions, NMFS’s List of Foreign Fisheries (LOFF), and NMFS’s comparability finding determinations. Then, it discusses a challenge to the 2016 rule and comparability finding determinations.