International law: transport, communications and commerce

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

Fully updated and revised to take into account the new BIMCO Supplytime 2017 contract with a detailed analysis of the changes since the Supplytime 2005 form and including a new analysis, for the first time, of the BIMCO Bargehire form, this is the only modern work on the law of towage and offshore vessel services.

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

The need for freedoms of navigation in regional waters is frequently mentioned in statements from regional forums, but a common understanding of what constitutes a particular freedom of navigation or the relevant law is lacking.

This is the most comprehensive review of maritime cabotage law.

This collection of essays provides a comprehensive assessment of the legal and policy approaches to maritime counter-piracy adopted by the EU and other international actors over the last few years.

This collection of essays provides a comprehensive assessment of the legal and policy approaches to maritime counter-piracy adopted by the EU and other international actors over the last few years.

This collection of 20 essays contains recent work by legal scholars, practitioners and judges, all internationally renowned for their expertise in the fields of maritime and commercial law.

This book introduces and develops Contract Governance as a new approach to contract theory.

Employing law and philosophy of economics, this book explores how copyright shapes ownership of ideas in the social media age.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) represents one of the most successful examples of multilateral treaty making in the modern era.

Bills of lading form an essential part of the carriage of goods by sea and international trade.

The first authoritative commentary on a major new codification of the equality principle as applied to investor-state dispute settlement.

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.

Employing law and philosophy of economics, this book explores how copyright shapes ownership of ideas in the social media age.

By their very nature, ships do not stay put.

This book provides readers with a unique opportunity to learn about one of the new regional trade agreements (RTAs), the China Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA), that has been operational since December 2015 and is now at the forefront of the field.

An essential, in-depth analysis of the key legal issues that governments face when adopting cloud computing services.

An essential, in-depth analysis of the key legal issues that governments face when adopting cloud computing services.

This book uniquely offers a single point of reference on the vital legal subject of maritime liens, intrinsic to Admiralty Law and a topic often incompletely understood by shipping firms and other such businesses, to their considerable risk and detriment.

This addition to the Maritime and Transport Law Library looks at voyage charterparty contracts and addresses complex legal and practical issues arising out of them and their relationship with bills of lading and international sale contracts.

Examining the legal history of the order to pay money initiating a funds transfer, the author tracks basic principles of modern law to those that governed the payment order of Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Explains how boilerplate clauses fail in the intended aim of self-sufficiency, even under English law, their system of origin.

Now in its fourth edition, this book provides detailed and practical guidance on how London Maritime Arbitration works in practice, against the background of English arbitration law and the Arbitration Act 1996.

Bills of lading form an essential part of the carriage of goods by sea and international trade.

This work examines the causes of airplane accidents and what private and public policies are needed to improve aviation safety.

For the first time, this unique text brings together all private international maritime law conventions alongside expert commentary and analysis.

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 book uniquely offers a single point of reference on the vital legal subject of maritime liens, intrinsic to Admiralty Law and a topic often incompletely understood by shipping firms and other such businesses, to their considerable risk and detriment.

The Trademark Law Dictionary will be helpful for anyone who researches trademark law.

Providing thorough, up-to-date coverage of the operation of marine insurance legislation, this text is an essential resource for today's marine insurance professional.

Taking stock of the 2008 global financial crisis, this book provides ''outside the box'' solutions for reforming international financial regulation.

The Supreme Court ruling in Global Process System Inc.

This book discusses in a concise manner the key aspects that are important for the understanding of regulations and managerial framework governing marine pollution.

Probably the core characteristic of a bill of lading is that the original bill of lading must be presented at the port of destination for a consignee to be entitled to delivery of the goods and for the carrier to get a good discharge of its delivery obligation by delivering the goods to said consignee.

This account of the evolution of outer space law examines key issues that fuel the debates over sovereignty and property rights designed to govern the future colonization and use of heavenly bodies other than our own.

This book examines how exclusion from cyberspace is possible and explores ways that states can respond to this threat.

Now in its fourth edition, this hallmark text provides a comprehensive, article-by-article guide to the workings of the CMR Convention, as incorporated into English Law by the Carriage of Goods by Road Act 1965.

This book explores the transnational legal infrastructure for dispute resolution in transnational securities transactions.

A comprehensive, non-technical guide to leveraging website localization strategies for global e-commerce success.

This book models price behaviour and forecasts prices in the dry bulk shipping market, a major component of the world shipping industry.

Free expression is under threat.

Lawmaking by international organizations has enormous influence over world trade and national economies.

Despite the growing importance of 'consumer welfare' in EU competition law debates, there remains a significant disconnect between rhetoric and reality, as consumers and their interests still play only an ancillary role in this area of law.

The Domain Name System (DNS), which matches computer addresses to human-friendly domain names, has given rise to many legal issues.

This fifth volume in the series comprises ten contributions written by an expert team of academics and practitioners.