The International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage 2001: an Imperfect Convention in an Inadequate IMO Scheme for Compensation for Ship-Source Oil Pollution Damage

The International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage 2001 was hailed as filling in the last missing component piece of the international regime for ship-source oil pollution damage. This article examines this view; it concludes that there is substantial room for improvement in the IMO international compensation regime and that the remedy of restitutio in integrum is far from achieved.