International law: transport, communications and commerce

remains a must read for practitioners and academics interested in more than the substantive law of trans-border commercial activity.

Explores the complex European regulatory landscape for multi-territorial access to and licensing of copyrighted works such as music and audiovisual works.

The Arrest Conventions, signed in 1952 and 1999, play a fundamental role in the worldwide enforcement of maritime claims.

Multinational Enterprises and the Law is the only comprehensive, contemporary, and interdisciplinary account of the techniques used to regulate multinational enterprises (MNEs) at the national, regional, and multilateral levels.

Thought to be the most comprehensive guide to English law relating to ship mortgages, the second edition of The Law of Ship Mortgages has been highly anticipated.

An account of the legal regime of straits and the allocation of rights and duties relating to transit passage.

Combined Transport Documents provides a comprehensive guide to combined transport or multi-modal contracts.

This book explores the legal and ethical implications - both challenges and opportunities - of using big data in health care and research.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) offers a legal framework for the sustainable development of the oceans and their natural resources.

This select volume of historical documents is organized chronologically, spanning from 1914 to the present.

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

This book provides a blueprint for an International Legally Binding Instrument (ILBI) for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ).

This book identifies a paradigm shift in international investment law and enquires into how states reassert control over investment treaties.

Now in its fifth 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.

In 2006, British forces entered the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in what would become one of the defining military campaigns of the decade.

The marine environment does not naturally respect arbitrary international boundaries.

Stellen Sie sich vor, die Menschheit stünde am Beginn des größten Abenteuers ihrer Geschichte – dem ersten Kontakt mit einer außerirdischen Zivilisation.

Traces the history of innovation and trust, demonstrating how the Internet offers new ways to rehabilitate and strengthen trust.

To mark the 30th anniversary of the Institute of Maritime Law at Southampton University, current and former maritime law researchers came together to discuss the evolution of this fascinating area of law in the last 30 years and to stimulate discussion on its possible future.

This book argues for the utility of human rights in the practice of ocean governance.

New Technologies, Artificial Intelligence and Shipping Law in the 21st Century consists of edited versions of the papers delivered at the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law's 14th International Colloquium at Swansea Law School in September 2018.

Marine extremes, as they are conceived of in this volume, encompass environments, activities, events and impacts.

A comprehensive review of the laws and regulations governing the shipmaster including customary law, case law, statutory law, treaty law and regulatory law, covering: * A brief history of the shipmaster * Manning and crewing requirements in relation to vessel registration * Comparison of regimes of law of agency for shipmasters and crews across jurisdictions * Examination of shipmaster liability (civil and criminal)

Freight Forwarding and Multimodal Transport Contracts, 2nd Edition, is a comprehensive guide to the law in relation to contract forms and terms created by operators, trade associations or international bodies such as the UN and used as a basis for trading conditions by freight forwarders, logistics suppliers, combined or multimodal transport operators and container operators.

More than ever before the changing environmental and political landscape in the Arctic requires stability and foreseeability based on resilient common norms.

Defence reform has been a major component of Bosnia's stabilisation and nation-building.

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.

Private International Law Online is a dedicated analysis of the private international law framework in the European Union as it applies to online activities such as content publishing, selling and advertising goods through internet marketplaces, or offering services that are performed online.

Examines the interplay between artificial intelligence and international economic law, and its effects on global economic order.

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

This book provides a comprehensive examination of direct-action rights within Protection and Indemnity (P&I) Clubs, a cornerstone of the maritime industry, providing robust insights into the interplay of legal frameworks and maritime insurance in an increasingly globalized industry.

This book introduces undergraduates and computing industry professionals to basic legal principles and the peculiarities of legal issues in cyberspace.

2020 marked the 40th anniversary of the CISG which now has over 90 Contracting States, with Hong Kong formally adopted the Convention in 2022, and further States are currently considering their accession to the Convention.

Widely regarded as the leading authority on voyage charters, this book is the most comprehensive and intellectually-rigorous analysis of the area, is regularly cited in court and by arbitrators, and is the go-to guide for drafting and disputing charterparty contracts.

This book explains the definition, concepts, practices and procedures of Free Zone operations; how they are created, how they operate, and their benefits to the global and national economy.

Ship Registration Law and Practice is fully updated and now entering its third edition.

From a technological standpoint, geography is largely irrelevant.

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.

Access to genetic resources and Benefit Sharing (ABS) has been promoted under the Convention on Biological Diversity, with the aim of combining biodiversity conservation goals with economic development.

This is the first book-length treatment of the advancement of EU global data flows and digital trade through the framework of European institutionalisation.

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.

War, Terror and Carriage by Sea provides a comprehensive legal analysis of the law and practice relating to the impact of war or war related risks, terrorism and piracy on international commercial shipping.

Finck examines the emergence of blockchains (and other forms of distributed ledger technologies) and the implications for regulation and governance.

In this much anticipated sequel to the legal bestseller, The Future of Law, Susskind lays down a challenge to all lawyers to ask themselves, with their hands on their hearts, what elements of their current workload could be undertaken differently - more quickly, cheaply, efficiently, or to a higher quality - using alternative methods of working.

Takes an in-depth look into the war victim''s right to reparation from the seventeenth century until the present day.

Cases and Materials on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, fifth edition, offers tailored coverage of the most commonly taught topics on Carriage of Goods by Sea courses.

Leading experts from common law jurisdictions examine defamation and privacy, two major and interrelated issues for law and media.

This book examines third party protection in shipping.

This is the third edition of the casebook providing an article-by-article analysis of the CISG Convention.

With advances in technology and maritime transport, human use of the ocean now extends beyond the traditional activities of navigation and fishing.