Books in the Hamburg Studies on Maritime Affairs series

This book examines the concept of port state jurisdiction in the context of international maritime law.

This book focuses on maritime employment from a private international law perspective. The first chapter analyzes the background against which international jurisdiction and conflict of laws rules are drawn up and examines uniform law in this context, in particular the 2006 Maritime Labour Convention and the 2007 ILO Convention No.

This work focuses on a specific aspect of the enforcement of maritime claims, namely judicial sales of ships, a procedure creditors typically resort to in the event of an irreversible default situation.

Because the liability of ship owners is limited, classification societies have been considered as exempt from liability. This book analyses which actions of classification societies may give rise to claims and whether or not the societies can be held liable under English, German or American maritime law.

A detailed analysis of the history of maritime transport services in the Uruguay and post-Uruguay Round negotiations and the role of the sector in the ongoing Doha Round talks.

The general international law regarding foreign merchant ships in internal waters has never been codified. The question of the breadth of the territorial sea was finally solved during the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.

Conventions covering the law of the sea contain provisions on compensation for wrongful interferences with navigation, though they are rarely applied. The author discusses such issues as the responsibility of international organizations, liability for lawful conduct, and several and joint liability in public international law.

This timely and comprehensive book studies compulsory insurance, its main purpose of ensuring compensation and its interrelations with other features such as the rule of strict liability, the limitation of liability of that convention.

Jurisdiction and arbitration clauses are two different mechanisms that help to ensure impartiality and predictability in international dispute resolution.

A liner conference, as a self-regulation organisational form of liner shipping companies, constitutes a typical "hard-core cartel" with significant anti-competitive effect.

"Wilful misconduct" denoting a high degree of fault is an established term in English law. The question as to exactly which degree of fault constitutes "wilful misconduct" has remained controversial and unanswered. This work seeks to answer this question.

In 2007, The International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea established an annual lecture series to address recent developments in maritime affairs. This book offers seven of those lectures.

The Hamburg Lectures on Maritime Affairs 2011-2013