Kyriakos v. Goulandris

There is much temptation to affirm this decree; yet I cannot see how we can do so without recognizing an exception to a well-settled principle — a principle moreover which it seems to me desirable to preserve intact. As my brothers agree, it is generally accepted law that in all matters relating to “the internal economy or discipline” of a ship “the law of the flag” controls. I have gathered in the margin * a number of decisions which invoke this principle in varying applications; nobody disputes it; and it seems to me most undesirable, except for some pressing reason of domestic policy, to…