The Issues and the international organization context: The Nature of the challenge -- The International problem of oil pollution -- IMCO and its members -- The Formulation of the environmental regime: Discharge standards and pollution-control technologies -- Coastal state rights: intervention and compensation -- Jurisdiction and enforcemnet -- Political processes of environmental control: The Environmental law of the oceans; determinants of change -- The Implementation of conventions: from treaty to law, from law to compliance -- The Political process and the future of environmental protection

1. Oil pollution of the sea -- Law and legislation
2. Tankers -- Law and legislation
3. Liability for oil pollution damages