Bills of Lading Incorporating Charterparties

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Vessels very frequently serve under a long chain of charterparties and sub-charterparties. When this is the case, the legal issues are more convoluted than they might at first seem. Incorporation clauses are commonplace in bills of lading used in the tramp trade due to the desire to make this web of contracts back-to-back. The extent to which the terms of the charterparty referred to can be carried across to the bill of lading has, over the centuries, been hotly disputed in many jurisdictions. Entirely dedicated to the topic of the incorporation of charterparty terms into bills of lading, this book discusses and analyses the legal and practical issues surrounding this topic under English and US law. Through discussions on the incorporation of a wide range of different charterparty terms, the book combines the peculiar and sophisticated rules of incorporation with the legal and practical issues concerning shipping, international trade, arbitration and conflict of laws and jurisdiction.

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The author's effort to extract the principles from court decisions of both the English and the US jurisdictions and compare them is commendable -- Dr Aleka Mandaraka Sheppard, Chartered Arbitrator and Mediatorn London Shipping Law Centre * The Journal of International Maritime Law *

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Melis zdel is a Lecturer in Maritime and Commercial Law at University College London and Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Commercial Law. Alongside her academic life, Melis is a practising advocate in Istanbul, Turkey.