Water and soil, blood and oil demarcating the frontiers of Australia, Indonesia and Timor-Leste / David Dixon -- From laggards to leaders the evolving role of the private actors in the international climate regime / Charlotte Streck -- Shared responsibility or institutional accountability?...

This book discusses to what extent the precautionary approach to fisheries management is reflected in the MSC Fisheries Standard and in the certification of four clusters of fisheries in polar waters. Certification according to private sustainability standards (ecolabelling) has become an...

"In most of the time of its history of over 5,000 years, China was prosperous and influential in the Far East. The international order that it shaped in this region is unique in post- Westphalian terms, but not necessarily inferior. Despite the fact that it claimed to be the "Middle Kingdom" and...

This paper examines the underlying principles and main elements of binding and non-binding international instruments relating to access and benefit-sharing of genetic resources. It discusses the gap left by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and some of the elements that might...

Financial relations are defined as a set of social relationships, having economic features, arising from the realization and distribution of monetary resources necessary for carrying out the tasks of the state. There is a close relationship between the development of financial relationships and...

The notion of a transnational law has been under dispute for several decades. After Philip Jessup in his widely-known Storrs Lecture on Jurisprudence at the Yale Law School had coined the phrase in 1956, it has been used in numerous contexts. One of the most influential narratives of...

This paper provides an historical perspective of the global oil-tanker market, the international tanker fleet, and the major trends in tanker ownership. The available data indicate that outside the OECD, more than half of large tanker capacity is ultimately owned by governments compared to less...

Every year between 100,000 and 120,000 migrants attempt to irregularly cross the Mediterranean to reach European shores in hope of political asylum or just a better life. In this working paper Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Tanja Aalberts take on the complicated politics and law of "rescue at...

Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen erleichtern den Handel, indem sie die Parteien von einer individuellen Vertragsgestaltung entlasten. Dabei entsteht jedoch die Gefahr, dass diejenige Partei, die Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen stellt, diese zu ihren Gunsten formuliert und so die andere Partei...

This paper starts from the encounter between a European navy vessel and a dinghy carrying boat refugees and other desperate migrants across the Mediterranean or West African Sea towards Europe. It explores the growing trend in the EU of enacting migration control at the high seas or...

This timely and comprehensive new Handbook brings together an unrivalled group of distinguished scholars and practitioners to provide in-depth analysis and a contemporary perspective on a wide-ranging array of topics in maritime economics. Inherently global in nature, the economics of the...