Insurability of Emerging Risks

Baris Soyer is Professor of Commercial and Maritime Law and Director of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law at Swansea University, UK.Özlem Gürses is Professor of Law at King’s College London, UK.

• Introduction, Baris Soyer (Swansea University, UK) and Özlem Gürses (King’s College London, UK)Part I: Conceptual, Theoretical and Regulatory Issues 1. Public Private Partnerships: Providing Capital for Unaffordable Insurance Risks, Özlem Gürses (King’s College London, UK)2. Safety In Numbers: Towards More Comprehensive Approaches to Difficult Risks, Jeffrey W Stempel (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA) and Erik S Knutsen (Queen’s University Kingston, Canada) 3. Going Beyond 'Risk Solidarity' in Private Insurance: The Changing Function of Insurance in Modern Times, Baris Soyer (Swansea University, UK) 4. Regulating AI in Insurance: An 'All Risks' Approach, Roger Brownsword (King’s College London, UK) 5. Insuring the Uninsurable, Or the Uninsurable, Andrew Tettenborn (Swansea University, UK) 6. The Insurability of Fines, Peter MacDonald Eggers KC (7 King’s Bench Walk, UK)Part II: Insuring Various Emerging Risks: Environmental Risks 7. The New Zealand Experience of Insuring against Natural Catastrophes, Robert Merkin KC (University of Reading, UK)8. The Big Wind Blows: On Northern Australia, Fred Hawke (Clayton Utz, Australia)9. Climate Litigation Risk: The Limits of Insurance and Tort Law, Livashnee Naidoo (University of Glasgow, UK)Part III: Insuring Various Emerging Risks: Technology Related Risks 10. Tort and Autonomous Vehicle Accidents: The Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 and the Insurance Solution, Phillip Morgan (University of York, UK)11. The Changing Landscape of Professional Liabilities, Gary Meggitt (University of Hong Kong)12. Improving Insurability of Emerging Risks: The Example of Nanotechnology, Christian Armbrüster (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)13. The Insurability of Third-Party Liability Risks Arising from the Use of Civilian Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the UK, George Leloudas (Swansea University, UK)

This brief review cannot do justice to the breadth and depth of the book. The editors and contributing authors are to be congratulated on this thought-provoking book.