Maritime and Transport Law Library
About the Book Series
Presented for expert practitioners and academics alike, Informa Law’s Maritime and Transport Law Library offers an extensive portfolio of cutting-edge specialist titles on the whole spectrum of transport law, including shipping, aviation, rail and road. Our authors come from the premier institutions, law firms and chambers across the world and are among the leaders in their fields.
Recent highlights include the 5th edition of Yvonne Baatz's renowned Maritime Law, and John A C Cartner's new Cartner on the International Law of the Shipmaster: On The New Command at Sea.
Commercial Insurance Law: Emerging Trends and New Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Barış Soyer
December 22, 2025
For commercial organisations, certainty and stability are essential. Yet unexpected events—and shifting economic or geopolitical conditions—frequently pose serious risks. One of the most effective tools for mitigating such risks is insurance. This edited volume explores key developments in ...
Off-hire in Merchant Shipping: Law and Practice
1st Edition
By Xiankai Zhan, Pengfei Zhang
November 24, 2025
Readers of Off-hire in Merchant Shipping: Law and Practice will gain a comprehensive understanding of off-hire clauses, their legal and practical implications, and how they function to balance the interests of shipowners and charterers in maritime shipping. The book provides valuable insights into ...
Brazilian Civil Aviation Law
1st Edition
By Delphine Defossez, Inez Lopes
October 15, 2025
Brazilian aviation law is often a mystery for people outside Brazil. Despite being based on German and Italian law, Brazilian law does not resemble any other legal system; for instance, it took nearly a decade and the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court to finally acknowledge that the Montreal ...
International Maritime Law and Practice: Comparative Law in Context
1st Edition
By Časlav Pejović
August 24, 2025
This book provides a different perspective on the ever-popular topic of maritime law, emphasising historical and comparative aspects. It provides the reader with a broader view of how maritime law has developed throughout history and operates within various legal systems. Each chapter starts with ...
LNG Offshore Production and Regasification: Legal and Commercial Risk Management
1st Edition
By Stuart Beadnall, John Simpson, Max Lemanski
August 24, 2025
This is the first book to focus on the law and practice relating to the production and delivery of liquified natural gas (LNG) using offshore floating facilities. This segment of the offshore oil and gas industry has been growing over recent years and has now assumed special importance in the wake ...
The Law and Practice of Maritime Liens
1st Edition
By Damien J Cremean
August 18, 2025
This book uniquely offers a single point of reference on the vital legal subject of maritime liens, intrinsic to Admiralty Law and a topic often incompletely understood by shipping firms and other such businesses, to their considerable risk and detriment. Where previously it was necessary to source...
The Beijing Convention on the Judicial Sales of Ships
1st Edition
Edited
By D. Rhidian Thomas
July 24, 2025
Focusing solely on the UN Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships 2023 (the ‘Beijing Convention’), readers of this unique book will gain a full and detailed understanding of the way the Convention functions, its areas of difficulty and ambiguity, and how it relates to ...
Damages, Recoveries and Remedies in Shipping Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Barış Soyer
March 13, 2025
This edited volume brings together contributions from experienced academics and practitioners in shipping law to consider the crucial subject of remedies in shipping litigation. The collection takes a close look at the established principles and recent legal, commercial and technical developments ...
Unmanned Ships and the Law
1st Edition
By BÜLENT SÖZER
December 19, 2024
This book considers the law relating to the legal aspects of unmanned ships. The author, a doyen of shipping and insurance law from Turkey, delves into the current international legal regime and examines the probable impact of unmanned ships on liability and carriage of goods in a wide-ranging ...
Commercial Disputes: Resolution and Jurisdiction
1st Edition
Edited
By Barış Soyer
December 12, 2024
Remedies are vital in commercial litigation. Additionally, in commercial law, parties are usually free to choose the forum and law that will govern their disputes. This book aims to shine the spotlight on these issues and look to several new trends and developments emerging on procedural matters ...
Responsibility and Accountability in Maritime Law: Criminalisation of the Ship’s Master
1st Edition
By Simon Daniels
August 28, 2024
The criminalisation of seafarers has been observed as a growing phenomenon for more than forty years, presenting a picture of increasing liability upon the Master even though their responsibilities remain essentially unchanged in generations of maritime law. Because of the demand by society to find...
Commercial and Maritime Law in China and Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Shengnan Jia, Lijun Liz Zhao
August 26, 2024
Both China and Europe have a long tradition of commercial and maritime law; and this new book examining various topics from their particular perspectives is both timely and important. It links the vital component of maritime law with commercial law, financial law and trade policy. The book has ...