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Maritime Cross-Border Insolvency is a comprehensive comparative examination of both insolvency regimes (UNCITRAL and EU) in shipping with reference to the main jurisdictions having adopted the UNCITRAL regime, i.e. USA, UK, Greece.
List of contents
Opening Remarks
PART 1: Systemic conflict between the rules of maritime and insolvency lawChapter 1: Insolvency mechanisms and the operation of shipping companies: Financial aspects
Chapter 2: Legal interaction between insolvency and maritime law
PART 2: Areas of conflict between maritime and insolvency lawChapter 3: Opening of cross-border insolvency proceedings
Chapter 4: The treatment of maritime securities
Chapter 5. Insolvency and limitation of liability for maritime claims
Postface
About the author
Lia Athanassiou is a Professor at the School of Law, Athens University. She is a registered arbitrator and barrister and is senior partner at Athanassiou-Gerapetritis & Associates law firm in Athens. In 2015, she was appointed member of the Committee of Experts of the International Labor Organization and has written extensively on Maritime, Competition, Industrial Property, Company, European and Transport law in Greek, French, and English.
Summary
Maritime Cross-Border Insolvency is a comprehensive comparative examination of both insolvency regimes (UNCITRAL and EU) in shipping with reference to the main jurisdictions having adopted the UNCITRAL regime, i.e. USA, UK, Greece.
