This book selects leading, innovative and influential Chinese maritime judgments and presents full translation of them, with brief summary, to the readers so that they can have insights of how the Chinese maritime judges interpret, apply and develop Chinese maritime law in practice. China trades with other states in trillions of USD every year, and about 95% of the cargoes are carried by ocean-going ships calling at hundreds of Chinese ports each single day. Due to the enormous and steadily growing trade volume and shipping activities, foreign ships, companies and persons are often caught by the Chinese maritime law and court. The parties involved and their lawyers are more than ever enthusiastic to study Chinese maritime cases in order to deal with their own cases properly or, if possible, predict the potential problems and avoid the disputes outright. The book is appealing to and benefits worldwide law students, academics, practitioners and industrial people in the shipping, trade, insurance and financial fields. The book remedies to certain extent the situation that there is lack of authoritative sources available to foreign personnel to look into how Chinese justice system functions.

Autorentext
Martin Davies is Admiralty Law Institute Professor of Maritime Law and Director of Tulane Maritime Law Center. Prof. Davies is an international authority on admiralty law who had taught in many jurisdictions before joining the Tulane U. Law School faculty in 2000. He has worked as a consultant for maritime law firms for 30 years and is presently engaged by an international law firm with a maritime law practice in various countries. He serves on Editorial Board of Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly and the Melbourne Journal of International Law. He is a productive author of books on maritime law, international trade law, international sale of goods and torts.
Jiang Lin is Associate Professor of Maritime Law in Shanghai Maritime University (SMU) and Depute Director of Shipping Policy and Law Research Center of Shanghai International Shipping Institute. Jiang started his career as a practicing English solicitor and Chinese lawyer, and he went back to his mother college SMU to be a law lecturer in 2006 while maintaining his lawyering life. He has been researching on the developments of maritime law, adjudication and dispute resolution in Shanghai, China and on that basis, authoring the annual white book since 2011. He has also written books and articles in the areas of ship finance and cruise economy. Jiang is Adjunct Professor of Tulane U. Law School, and a member of Jiusan Society, one democratic party in China.

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Table of Cases by Name of Plaintiff in Judgment of First Instance.- Table of Cases by Jurisdiction (which Chinese Court Makes the Effective Judgment).- Table of Cases by Cause of Action for Maritime Cases in the People's Republic of China.- List of Maritime Courts and their Appeal and Petition Courts in the People Republic of China.- List of Causes of Action for Maritime Cases in the People's Republic of China.- Table of References.