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National Library Week is held during the month of April. If you would like to learn more about how libraries impact our communities and more about librarianship itself, this month's display provides titles that can provide a wealth of information for you.

Cases and Materials on Maritime Law by Frank L. Maraist; Thomas C. Galligan
ISBN: 9780314199621
Publication Date: 2009-05-05
The second edition of this law school casebook, like the first, focuses on modern admiralty practice. The cases and materials selected discuss current issues that a maritime lawyer faces, in addition to the historical bases of those issues. This second edition includes new and significant cases decided since the first edition was published, including cases affecting vessel status, maritime contracts and punitive damages. Another key feature of the book remains the inclusion of applicable legislation alongside cases, rather than in a statutory supplement. This inclusion allows students to see and understand the critical relationship between case law and statutes in admiralty. The book can be used for a general admiralty course or for a shorter, more focused maritime personal injury course.
Maritime Laws of the United States by Maritime Administration
ISBN: 0865878927
Publication Date: 2001-08-01
This handy resource provides members of the regulated maritime community with a collection of the laws governing the merchant marine industry. Focusing on the three primary maritime statutes, this book covers such Acts as the Merchant Marine Act, Maritime Security Act, Shipping Act, Public Vessels Act, Emergency Foreign Vessels, Acquisition Act, National Emergencies Act, American Fisheries Act, and Defense Production Act. This one-volume reference addresses procedures, including the documentation and manning of vessels, cross-border financing, and vessel scrapping, and other relevant industry issues: maritime liability, cabotage, and cargo reservation. In addition, Maritime Laws of the United States covers four military programs and 10 commercial shipyards.
Cases and Materials on the Carriage of Goods by Sea by Anthony Rogers; Jason Chuah; Martin Dockray
ISBN: 9780367181451
Publication Date: 2019-11-12
Cases and Materials on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, fifth edition, offers tailored coverage of the most commonly taught topics on Carriage of Goods by Sea courses. Combining a collection of legislative materials, commentaries, scholarly articles, standard forms and up-to-date English case law, it covers the major areas of chartering and bills of lading as well as matters such as exclusion and limitation of liability. Significant innovations for this edition include: coverage of blockchain technology and smart contracts in shipping coverage of autonomous shipping recent developments on the construction of commercial shipping contracts　 recent developments on the transfer of rights and liabilities in the contract of carriage tables and diagrams for ease of reading discussion of some of the most important decisions by the senior courts of England and Wales, with the most up to date case law included references to academic and professional literature for further reading and research industry standard form clauses reference to important foreign cases emphasis on how it is that shipping law operates and is applied in commercial practice A clear, student-friendly text design with a strong emphasis on research and problem solving. This up-to-date collection of materials relating to the carriage of goods by sea will be of value to students of law, researchers and legal practitioners.
Courts of Admiralty and the Common Law by Steven L. Snell
ISBN: 9781594601736
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
"Courts of Admiralty and the Common Law examines the origins of American admiralty jurisdiction. Drawing from a vast array of primary sources, ranging from Roman law to English records of the medieval and early modern periods, the author traces the development of English admiralty practice that provided the legal heritage of the new American nation. The book provides details of how the English High Court of Admiralty and its civil-law practitioners became embroiled in the struggle between Crown and Parliament in the seventeenth century, losing much of their traditional jurisdiction to the courts of common law at a time when the American colonies were just beginning to establish specialized tribunals for hearing maritime cases. With maritime jurisdiction in flux in the mother country, the Americans were free to adopt ad hoc solutions to the problem of jurisdiction, creating a system in which both the colonial common-law courts and the newly established colonial vice admiralty courts had concurrent power to adjudicate a wide range of maritime claims." "Courts of Admiralty and the Common Law also sheds fresh light on the origins of the federal judiciary, showing how the debate over maritime jurisdiction was instrumental both in shaping the language of Article III of the Constitution and later in determining the structure of the federal courts in the Judiciary Act of 1789."--BOOK JACKET.
Ocean and Coastal Law by Alison Rieser; Donna R. Christie; Richard G. Hildreth; Joseph J. Kalo
ISBN: 9780314266743
Publication Date: 2013-07-25
This new edition has been significantly revised to address the challenge to ocean and coastal law from global warming and climate disruption. It also covers governance changes in response to sea level rise and coastal disasters, including hurricanes Katrina and Sandy and the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The context for these changes is drawn from developments in international oceans law.

FAMU Law Library Online Repository

Be sure to visit the Library’s Online Repository at http://commons.law.famu.edu/.

The Repository holds a variety of publications and documents that could be useful for projects and research. Alumni, faculty, and student academic publications are available free to access to anyone on the web and cover a wide variety of topics. Through the online repository platform, FAMU College of Law’s Scholarly Commons scholarship has reached thousands of researchers around the world. To see the readership that the College's scholarship has, you can view the daily downloads of the Repository’s holdings through a map located at the bottom of the main page.

The Repository also hosts materials on FAMU College of Law’s founding, including information on the efforts of Virgil Hawkins to enter into the profession of law.

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