World of Maritime and Commercial Law

Charles Mitchell is Professor of Law at University College London.Stephen Watterson is Reader in Private Law at the University of Cambridge.

• 1. The Empress of Ireland and Mont Blanc Collisions: Then and Now Nicholas Gaskell2. Do Actual Carriers Require Special Treatment? Francis Reynolds3. Multimodal Carriage of Goods by Sea: Time for an International Convention? Simon Baughen4. The Three Ages of Utmost Good Faith Howard Bennett5. English Jurisdiction Clauses in Marine Cargo Insurance and Direct Actions against Cargo Liability Insurers Yvonne Baatz6. Choice of Law in Determining the Ownership of Ships Martin Davies7. Private International Law and the Privy Council Adrian Briggs8. Bulk Goods and Title Transfer Michael Bridge9. The Duty to Take Delivery of Goods Andrew Tettenborn10. The Vanishing Scope of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 in the Twenty-first Century Louise Gullifer11. Are there Any General Principles of Commercial Law? Gerard McMeel12. Mercantile Usage, Construction of Contracts and the Implication of Terms, 1750–1850 Charles Mitchell13. ‘The Obscure, the Implied and the Illegal’: English and French Approaches to the Interpretation of Written Contracts, Implication of Terms and Contracts Affected by Illegality Richard Aikens14. The Interpretation of Written Contracts James Edelman15. The Boilerplate and the Bespoke: Should Differences in the Quality of Consent Influence the Construction and Application of Commercial Contracts? David Foxton16. Illegality: Pleading, Proof, and Presumptions William Swadling17. Negotiating Damages Andrew Burrows18. The Myth of Common Law Tracing Sarah Worthington19. Contextual and Conceptual Foundations of Private Law Claims Involving Cryptocurrencies Stephen Watterson20. Silence and Solidarity? The Duties of Individual Directors Minded to Speak Out about their Board’s Decision-making and Governance Peter Watts