Research Handbook on Marine Insurance Law (Research Handbooks in Private and Commercial Law series)

This erudite Research Handbook presents in-depth analyses on marine insurance law, exploring its fundamental issues, legal conflicts and the ways in which technology has changed the marine insurance landscape.

Bringing together a vast array of expert legal scholars and practitioners, this book adeptly relates marine insurance to international trade, cyber insurance and pandemic exclusions. Chapters cover protection and indemnity insurance, marine insurance fraud and emerging technology, total losses under marine policies and the insurance requirements in Incoterms® 2010 and 2020. Offering a detailed assessment of crucial legal principles including duty of utmost good faith, subrogation in co-insurance, wilful misconduct of the assured and conflicts of law, this Research Handbook provides a vital contribution to this continually developing legal field.

The Research Handbook on Marine Insurance Law will be a necessary resource for academics, researchers and students specialising in maritime law, international commercial law, insurance law and private international law. Providing practical case studies as evidence, it will also be beneficial to legal practitioners and professionals working in shipping and international trade industries.

Edited by Özlem Gürses, Professor of Maritime Law, Tulane University Law School, USA