Yearbook Maritime Law: Volume I [Paperback]

I. The importance of legal questions related to the sea is obvious to everyone. It is hardly surprising that the subjects that make up international current events illustrate the leading role played by maritime affairs. Indeed, it is no coincidence that three quarters of the earth's surface is covered by oceans. Territorial seas, exclusive economic zones, exploitation of the seabed, fishing, transport, insurance, collision, and pollution raise many unresolved questions. On the other hand, the contrast of this importance with the modest attention that existing periodical publications merit must be underscored. Without undervaluing these publications, there has been a need for some time to create a vehicle of common expression, based on three central tenets: interdisciplinary framework, tendency towards uniform law, and both a theoretical and practical approach. a. A framework of interdisciplinary nature seems to be relevant as it is desirable to overcome the artificial separation between public and private law.I. Articles.- Maritime Law: An Approach to the Concept.- A Lawyers View of Arbitration Proceedings and Composition of the Arbitration Panel.- The UN Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978, Hamburg Rules, its Future and the Demands of Developing Countries.- Compensation in the Light of the 1984 Protocols to Revise the 1969 CLC and the 1971 Fund Conventions.- Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Italy under the NY Convention of 1958.- Disputes concerning Lay Days.- II. Comparative Law.- Argentina, Recent Case Law and Relevant Seminars in Argentina.- Belgium, Recent Trends in the Decisions of the Antwerp Court of Appeals concerning Maritime Law (19751985).- Canada, Annual Summary 198384 (Canadian Admiralty Decisions).- Denmark, New Developments of Maritime Law in DK during 1982, 1983 and 1984.- Democratic Republic of Germany, GDR Legislation and Publications in the Sphere of Maritime Law 1984.- Federal Republic of Germany, Recent lc8