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.
Bills of Lading and Bankers' Documentary Credits
4th Edition
By Paul Todd
May 02, 2013
Bills of Lading and Bankers’ Documentary Credits provides a straightforward guide to the nuances and complexities of deals conducted under the documentary credit system. The book describes in detail the law applicable to and the practical workings of bankers' documentary credits as they are used in...
Maritime Fraud and Piracy
2nd Edition
By Paul Todd
November 01, 2010
The main focus of this book is the impact of maritime fraud on contracts for sale and carriage, documentary credits and marine insurance. It covers all varieties of maritime fraud, from the most serious downwards, describing the methods employed and the risks to traders and carriers. At the serious...
Places of Refuge
1st Edition
By Eric Van Hooydonk
June 01, 2010
The need for specific legal arrangements governing ships in distress and places of refuge is one of the most topical problems in both public and private maritime law. The headline grabbing shipping disasters involving the loss of the Erika (1999) and the Prestige (2002) attracted the attention of ...
The Modern Law of Marine Insurance: Volume 3
1st Edition
Edited
By Rhidian Thomas
November 01, 2009
Written by a team of leading academics and practitioners, this volume analyses the contemporary legal questions and debates arising out of market practice, and provides a thoroughly modern and up-to date analysis of marine insurance law. Topics covered include: held covered clauses, incorporation ...
Risk and Liability in Air Law
1st Edition
By George Leloudas
September 01, 2009
This book is the first attempt to analyse the relevant international conventions governing the liability of airlines to passengers and third parties on the ground from a risk perspective. The book analyses the transformation of the notion of risk over time and identifies the ways and the extent to ...
The Rotterdam Rules: A Practical Annotation
1st Edition
By Yvonne Baatz, Charles Debattista, Filippo Lorenzon, Andrew Serdy, Hilton Staniland, Michael Tsimplis
September 01, 2009
The Rotterdam Rules represent the most comprehensive overhaul of the law of carriage of goods by sea in more than fifty years. To coincide with the signing ceremony, six members of the Institute of Maritime Law have written a detailed commentary on the Rules. The Rotterdam Rules: A Practical ...
The Evolving Law and Practice of Voyage Charterparties
1st Edition
Edited
By Rhidian Thomas
April 01, 2009
This addition to the Maritime and Transport Law Library looks at voyage charterparty contracts and addresses complex legal and practical issues arising out of them and their relationship with bills of lading and international sale contracts. It offers insightful discussion on other distinctive ...
Legal Issues Relating to Time Charterparties
1st Edition
Edited
By Rhidian Thomas
March 20, 2008
Legal Issues Relating to Time Charterparties addresses all the major questions and issues that arise in connection with time charterparties, examining them in a logical manner, progressively tracing the subject from the creation to the termination of the contract. All the salient legal aspects of ...
Liability Regimes in Contemporary Maritime Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Rhidian Thomas
June 01, 2007
This book addresses the topical and current issues in maritime law and brings them together into a coherent strand by the common perspective of liabilities for the professional reader. Liability Regimes in Contemporary Maritime Law appeals to both the industry and the legal profession and provides ...
Marine Insurance: The Law in Transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Rhidian Thomas
June 30, 2006
The book examines and analyses in depth the specific issues which are currently occupying the marine insurance markets and the law. The London market is currently re-examining its practices and international competitiveness; and the English case law is growing significantly. The issues identified ...
Commencement of Laytime
4th Edition
By Davies Donald
May 17, 2006
Commencement of Laytime is the only in-depth examination and discussion concerning the most important financial aspect of laytime which can affect all voyage charter parties and international contracts for the sale of goods. The information is presented in a style which is readable by ship ...
War, Terror and Carriage by Sea
1st Edition
By Keith Michel
December 01, 2004
War, Terror and Carriage by Sea provides a comprehensive legal analysis of the law and practice relating to the impact of war or war related risks, terrorism and piracy on international commercial shipping. It includes a detailed review of: • International Hull Clauses, the Institute War and ...