Seafarers' Rights provides the reader with a systematic analysis of the rights of seafarers in the context of the international shipping industry, showing how they are made up of a combination of national and international laws, drawn from a number of sources including maritime law, labour law and international human rights law. Central chapters on these topics are dealt with on an international basis, and complemented by 12 chapters covering key national regimes of particular importance in terms of shipping. The book demonstrates how the seafarer, working in a truly global industry, often falls between the gaps in national and international law. As a result seafarers often have inadequate legal protections. Seafarers' Rights seeks to document the rights and remedies available to seafarers, highlight the problem areas, examine the legal systems of certain seafaring nations and port states and suggest areas that are ripe for legal reform. Countries covered in the national chapters include Brazil, China, Norway, Russia, South Africa, UK and the US.
Seafarers' Rights provides the reader with a systematic analysis of the rights of seafarers in the context of the international shipping industry, showing how they are made up of a combination of national and international laws, drawn from a number of sources including maritime law, labour law and international human rights law. Central chapters on these topics are dealt with on an international basis, and complemented by 12 chapters covering key national regimes of particular importance in terms of shipping. The book demonstrates how the seafarer, working in a truly global industry, often falls between the gaps in national and international law. As a result seafarers often have inadequate legal protections. Seafarers' Rights seeks to document the rights and remedies available to seafarers, highlight the problem areas, examine the legal systems of certain seafaring nations and port states and suggest areas that are ripe for legal reform. Countries covered in the national chapters include Brazil, China, Norway, Russia, South Africa, UK and the US.
Foreword
Judge Thomas Mensah: Preface
Part I
1: Alastair Couper (with Thomas Schoenbaum and Robert Grime):
Historical Perspectives on Seafarers and the Law
Part II
2: BIICL: International Standards
3: BIICL: International Compliance and Enforcement Mechanisms
Part III
4: Robin Churchill and Deirdre Fitzpatrick: Seafarers' Rights at
the National Level
5: Nick Gaskell and Christopher Smith: Private Law Regimes
Applicable to Seafarers
Part IV
Michael Anderson and Deirdre Fitzpatrick: Introduction to the
National Chapters
6: The Law Firm of Caputo, Bastos, Fruet e Bouissou Advigados:
Brazil
7: Peter Jiang: China
8: Andreas G Michaelides: Cyprus
9: Maria Gavouneli: Greece
10: John W deGravelles and Philip A Z Banks, III: Liberia
11: Mads Andenas (with assistance from Georg Riekeles): Norway
12: Enrique Cajigas: Panama
13: Emilio A Gancayco: Philippines
14: Valeriy A Musin: Russia
15: Struan Mundell: South Africa
16: Paul Newdick: United Kingdom
17: Richard J Dodson: United States
Part V
18: Michael Anderson and Thomas Mensah: Proposals for Legal
Reform
Annex: International Instruments Relevant to Seafarers' Rights
Annex: Ratification of International Instruments by Certain
Countries
Ms Deirdre Fitzpatrick is a solicitor and legal officer with the International Transport Workers' Federation in London. Dr Michael Anderson is a Senior Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law
`This unique, comprehensive and authoritative book on seafarers'
rights analyses in great detail the various legal systems and how
international treaties are interwoven with national laws.
Seafarers' Rights is not just an extremely readable, high-quality
reference book, it is one everyone involved in shipping must
read.'
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