A survey of judicial decisions applying law and procedure particular to maritime cases, interpreting the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, demise charter parties, policies of marine insurance, and the 1989 Salvage Convention, as well as the nature of the duty owed by one offering cruises for viewing...

While the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea contains the requirement that there exist a genuine link between a ship and its flag State, neither what constitutes that link, nor the effect of its absence has been determined with unambiguous clarity. In addition, it must be enquired whether the...