The centenary of World War I is of great historical, cultural and social significance. The conflict between 1914 and 1918 was utterly devastating, killing millions of combatants and civilians, laying waste to large parts of Europe, collapsing economies and rearranging the political landscape of...

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...

On 6 August 2007, the International Tribunal for the law of the Sea (Tribunal) delivered two judgments under Article 292 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (Convention). Both cases originated from the arrest by Russia, in accordance with Article 73 of the Convention, of two Japanese...

The aim of this paper is to assess the proposals to “freeze” the maritime entitlement of coastal States in the face of sea-level rise. It first places sea-level rise in the context of climate change in the Anthropocene and briefly looks at the international community’s responses,...