Research Handbook on Maritime Law and Regulation

Edited by Jason Chuah, Professor of Law, University of Malaya, Malaysia and City, University of London, UK

• Contents:PrefaceIntroductionPart I1. Improving International Uniform Transport Law by Creating Interpretative Committees Cécile Legros2. What is a unimodal carriage contract? The mode of transport as legal conceptWouter Verheyen3. The Carriage of Goods ConventionMichiel Spanjaart4. Towards Transparency and Predictability in Freight Forwarding – the Case for a Model LawSimone Lamont-BlackPart II5. The Quest for Universality and Uniformity: Theory and Practice of International Maritime RegulationAldo Chircop6. Sailing round the CLC. Environmental damage in EU maritime waters.Simon Baughen7. Nudging a Behavioural Change in Maritime Carriage of Goods – The Role of InformationEllen Eftestøl-Wilhelmsson and Suvi SankariPart III8. Classification of contractual terms and termination clauses in English lawLiang Zhao9. Contracts: time and voyage charterparties and their hybrid forms Johanna Hjalmarsson10. The impact of new commercial practices on liner contracts of carriage: new wine in old skins?Miriam Goldby11. Knocking on heavens doors: in search for a legal definition of the Bill of Lading as Document of TitleAndrea Lista 12. Renegotiating Shipping Contracts in Turbulent Economic TimesJason ChuahPart IV13. Maritime Conflict of Laws: Zonal and Jurisdictional Issues in PerspectiveProshanto K. Mukherjee14. Choice of Jurisdiction in Bills of Lading and Cargo InsuranceYvonne Baatz15. Arbitration, privity of contract and carriage of goods by seaPaul ToddIndex