Codification of Maritime Law: Challenges, Possibilities and Experience

This book is the first of its kind to explore the problems inherent in the unification of maritime law. Featuring contributions from leading experts at European maritime law research centres, it considers international conventions, current maritime practice, standard forms and recently adopted or drafted national codifications of maritime law from the codification point of view.

The book is divided into four parts which represent different views on the main topic. Part I gathers chapters dedicated to different aspects and methods of unification of maritime law on a global scale, as well as several specific issues of maritime law from the regulatory point of view. Part II of the book consists of those papers that centre around the issue of transport of goods. Part III is dedicated to codifications of carriage of passengers, cruise law and leisure navigation. Finally, Part IV addresses national codifications of maritime law.

Codification of Maritime Law: Challenges, Possibilities and Experience seeks to provide common ground for future unification of maritime law, which makes the book useful both for private and public maritime lawyers and states’ maritime administrations worldwide.

Dr Justyna Nawrot is an Assistant Professor at the University of Gdansk, where she teaches maritime law. In 2015, she was nominated as a member of the Polish Codification Commission for Maritime Law. She is a Vice President of the Polish Maritime Law Association, Vice Editor of ‘Prawo morskie’, scientific journal edited by the Polish Academy of Sciences and acts as an arbitrator in maritime disputes. Dr Nawrot has been also member of the Maritime Law Commission’s board under the auspices of Polish Academy of Sciences.

Dr Zuzanna Pepłowska-Dąbrowska is an Assistant Professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Since 2015, she has been a member of the Polish Codification Commission for Maritime Law. Dr Pepłowska-Dąbrowska is also Vice President of the Polish Maritime Law Association, a member of the Maritime Law Commission’s board of the Polish Academy of Sciences and an arbitrator in maritime disputes.