Maritime Risk Management.
Essays on the History of Marine Insurance, General Average and Sea Loan.
1st Edition
Published on 21. April 2021
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-3-428-18260-2 (ISBN)
Description
Insurance is a legal, an actuarial and a financial product, and it is one out of many risk management strategies. It follows that its history can only be studied in the broader context of the development of such strategies, applying an interdisciplinary approach. The theme of the present volume is maritime risk management. After an overview over the history of insurance, the contributions to the present volume examine different maritime risk management strategies by adopting a variety of methodological approaches. Some contributions focus on normative provisions, others contrast practice with legal scholarship, or focus on the emergence of insurance companies as opposed to individual insurers. Again, other contributions give insights in marine insurance practice in specific cities or analyse insurance practice through the lens of specific insurance litigation. As to the time frame, the different contributions span from antiquity to the nineteenth century.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Illustrations
21
13 Tab., 8 Farb. Abb.; 304 S., 8 farbige Abbildungen, 13 s/w Tabellen
13 Tab., 8 Farb. Abb.; 304 S., 8 farb. Abb., 13 schw.-w. Tab.
Dimensions
Height: 23.3 cm
Width: 15.7 cm
Weight
570 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-428-18260-2 (9783428182602)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Phillip Hellwege is Professor of Private Law, Commercial Law, and Legal History at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Before taking up his position in Augsburg he was from 2003 to 2010 a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. In 2015 he has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant for a five-year project on a comparative history of insurance law in Europe. His research interests are (European) private law, comparative legal history and the history of commercial and insurance law.
Guido Rossi is a Reader in European Legal History at the University of Edinburgh. He is interested in medieval and early-modern legal history and the history of commercial and insurance law.
Content
Phillip Hellwege and Guido Rossi: Maritime Risk Management: Marine Insurance, General Average, Sea Loan
Grietjie Verhoef: Insurance and Wealth: The Historical Trajectory of Changing Markets and Strategies in Insurance
Nikol Ziha: The Insurance Function of Roman Maritime Loan
Ana María Rivera Medina: Maritime Risk Management Instruments in Medieval Castile (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)
Luisa Piccinno and Antonio Iodice: Managing Shipping Risk: General Average and Marine Insurance in Early Modern Genoa
J.D. Ford: General Average in Scotland during the Sixteenth Century
David Deroussin: The Ordonnance sur la marine on General Average
Andrea Addobbati: War, Risks, and Speculation: The Accounts of a Small Livorno Insurer (1743-1748)
Jerònia Pons Pons: The Transformation of the Marine Insurance Market in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in Spain
Mallory Hope: Commercial Networks, Maritime Law, and Translation in a Spanish Insurance Claim on Trial in France, 1783-1791
Sabine Go: Governance of General Average in the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century: A Backward Development?
Stephanie Plasschaert: Unions and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Antwerp Marine Insurance Industry
List of Contributors / Index