Adjunct Professor Lawrence Brennan was quoted in a Navy Times article about the recent USS Fitzgerald collision off the Japanese coast that killed seven sailors.
“It’s virtually unprecedented,” Lawrence Brennan, a retired Navy captain who now teaches admiralty law at Fordham University’s School of Law, said last week. “For two large ships, both operated by world-class shipping companies, to be in waters where they should expect traffic and not see each other, boggles the imagination.”