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The bill of lading has been the subject of numerous articles, dissertations and textbooks over the years, and this is hardly surprising. The bill of lading has a fascinating history, it has several functions with roots in both contract and property law
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Preface
1 The bill of lading 1
2 Order, bearer, and straight bills of lading
3 The straight bill of lading contract
4 The transfer of (contractual rights under) a straight bill of lading
5 The straight bill of lading in the hands of the consignee
6 The presentation rule
7 The key to the warehouse
8 The straight bill of lading in a paperless future
Appendix 1: The Hague-Visby Rules Appendix 2: Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992 (C 50)
Index
Info autore
Michiel Spanjaart is an advocate with Trains & Co in Rotterdam. His practice areas include trade, transport, and insurance. He is a deputy-judge with the Court of Appeal in Amsterdam and an academic fellow with the (NUS) Centre for Maritime Law in Singapore. Michiel teaches maritime law at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and maritime and transport law at the University of Leuven. He obtained his LLB at the University of Utrecht in 1996 and his PhD at the Erasmus University in 2012. His thesis,
Vorderingsrechten uit cognossement ('Rights of suit under a bill of lading'), was published by Paris Uitgeverij in 2012. His book
Multimodal Transport Law was published by Routledge in 2018.
