International law: transport, communications and commerce

This book identifies and examines the legal challenges facing the shipping industry and ship management today.

The Japan-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPPA) of 2018 is the most far-reaching 'megaregional' economic agreement in force, with several major countries beyond its eleven negotiating countries also interested.

This is a big book, with big themes and an author with the necessary experience to back them up Full of insights as to the theories that underlie the rules governing contract, property and security, it is an important contribution to the law of international commerce and finance.

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Free expression is under threat.

Think of maritime slavery, and the notorious Middle Passage - the unprecedented, forced migration of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic - readily comes to mind.

If China's space ambitions continue unchallenged, America will be seriously economically and militarily disadvantaged.

The marine environment does not naturally respect arbitrary international boundaries.

Carriage of Goods by Sea provides an extensive comparative analysis of the carriage of goods by sea, examining the principles, regulation, responsibilities, obligations, and immunities within this area of English law, and other common law jurisdictions, in a single volume.

This book will be of interest for all jurists doing research and working practically in intellectual property law and international economic law.

Acclaimed as the standard reference work on the law relating to time charters, this new edition provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject, accessible and useful both to shipping lawyers and to shipowners, charterers, P&I Clubs and other insurers.

This unique book rethinks and rewrites the previous edition.

This work discusses the rapidly developing European transport policy on sustainable freight and the connected efforts initiated by the European Commission (EC) on greening transport by the means of contract law.

This is the most comprehensive review of maritime cabotage law.

Maritime Law is an exhaustive introduction to this complex area of law.

This book provides an accessible introduction to selected new issues in transnational law, and connects them to existing theoretical debates on transnational business regulation.

With the Maritime Labour Convention now in force (as of August 2013), the shipping industry is faced with a new international convention that has comprehensive implications across all sectors.

The seaworthiness of merchant ships plays a critical role in ensuring the safety of life and property and the prevention of marine pollution.

This comprehensive handbook, prepared by leading ocean policy academics and practitioners from around the world, presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of fifteen developed and developing nations and four key regions of the world that have taken concrete steps toward cross-cutting and integrated national and regional ocean policy.

This book should be read by anyone with an interest in the interaction between trade law and international standardization.

The current jurisdictional status of the Mediterranean Sea is remarkable.

Principles of the Carriage of Goods by Sea offers students studying this topic as part of their LLM or LLB course an accessible, comprehensive overview of the subject from a leading expert in the field.

The quickening pace of Iran's nuclear activities has produced an international sense of urgency.

Marine Environmental Governance: From International Law to Local Practice considers the relationship between international environmental law and community-based management of marine areas.

This book examines the challenge of negotiating and implementing new legal regimes addressing contemporary ocean challenges in the context of uncertain planetary futures.

A previous winner of the Comite Maritime International's Albert Lilar Prize for the best shipping law book worldwide, EU Shipping Law is the foremost reference work for professionals in this area.

Shipping has many hundreds of terms and phrases whose meaning is not always obvious, even for experienced practitioners.

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) remains the cornerstone of global ocean governance.

An overview of the latest developments in intermediated securities, via analysis of the Geneva Securities Convention and future EU legislation.

Media interest in the fates of people at sea has heightened across the last decade.

The new edition of this British Insurance Law Association (BILA)-award winning text is the definitive reference source for marine cargo insurance law.

The current jurisdictional status of the Mediterranean Sea is remarkable.

Maritime security is of vital importance to Australia and New Zealand as both countries depend on maritime transport for their economic survival.

Oil and natural gas, which today account for over 60% of the world's energy supply, are often produced by offshore platforms.

Vessels very frequently serve under a long chain of charterparties and sub-charterparties.

In Maritime Power and the Law of the Sea: Expeditionary Operations in World Politics, Commander James Kraska analyzes the evolving rules governing freedom of the seas and their impact on expeditionary operations in the littoral, near-shore coastal zone.

The doctrines of waiver, variation and estoppel are relied upon to justify or criticize a party's changed position as to its contractual obligations.

Europe and also the rest of the world has experienced a boom in mobility over the last thirty years.

This book explores the regulatory challenges posed by the changing landscape of electricity trade to the multilateral trading system.

Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea lays down the rules and regulations governing claims to a continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles for the 130 coastal States and entities that have ratified or acceded to it.

Shipping has many hundreds of terms and phrases whose meaning is not always obvious, even for experienced practitioners.

This book applies a contract-governance theory to the implementation of decarbonisation objectives in the international maritime sector.

The first edition of this book was quickly acclaimed as the new leading text worldwide on the law and practice of pollution from ships.

Written by a team of acclaimed practitioners and leading academics, this book brings together in one single volume an analysis of contemporary legal issues concerning ship building, sale and finance contracts.

Piratical attacks have become more frequent, violent, costly and increasingly threaten to undermine order in the international system.

This special issue asks what role society can play in the regulation of transnational risks, as an alternative to or at least significant addition to reliance on state regulatory activity and the myth of the self-regulatory capacity of markets (Stiglitz, 2001, p.

Carriage of Goods by Sea provides an extensive comparative analysis of the carriage of goods by sea, examining the principles, regulation, responsibilities, obligations, and immunities within this area of English law, and other common law jurisdictions, in a single volume.