Miriam Goldby is Senior Lecturer in Shipping, Insurance, and Commercial Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. She is Deputy Director of the Centre's Insurance Law Institute and Convenor of the MA in Law by Research Programme. She has written extensively on various areas of commercial and financial law, and in particular maritime law. Loukas Mistelis is Director of the School of International Arbitration and the Clive M Schmitthoff Professor of Transnational Commercial Law and Arbitration at Queen Mary University of London. He is an acknowledged authority on international dispute resolution, and has been listed as one of the 'leading lights in international arbitration'. His substantial arbitration experience covers ICC, ICSID, LCIA, UNCITRAL, SCC, Swiss Chambers, and Moscow cases.

• PART I: HOW PRACTICES BECOME NORMS: THE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF SHIPPING LAW; PART II: TO ARBITRATE OR NOT TO ARBITRATE? THE GREY AREA OF CONTRACTS OF CARRIAGE; PART III: WHERE TO ARBITRATE? DISCTINCTIVE FEATURES OF MARITIME ARBITRAL SEATS; PART IV: THE ROLE OF ARBITRATORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHIPPING LAW

Miriam Goldby is Senior Lecturer in Shipping, Insurance, and Commercial Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. She is Deputy Director of the Centre's Insurance Law Institute and Convenor of the MA in Law by Research Programme. She has written extensively on various areas of commercial and financial law, and in particular maritime law. Loukas Mistelis is Director of the School of International Arbitration and the Clive M Schmitthoff Professor of Transnational Commercial Law and Arbitration at Queen Mary University of London. He is an acknowledged authority on international dispute resolution, and has been listed as one of the 'leading lights in international arbitration'. His substantial arbitration experience covers ICC, ICSID, LCIA, UNCITRAL, SCC, Swiss Chambers, and Moscow cases.

• PART I: HOW PRACTICES BECOME NORMS: THE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF SHIPPING LAW; PART II: TO ARBITRATE OR NOT TO ARBITRATE? THE GREY AREA OF CONTRACTS OF CARRIAGE; PART III: WHERE TO ARBITRATE? DISCTINCTIVE FEATURES OF MARITIME ARBITRAL SEATS; PART IV: THE ROLE OF ARBITRATORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHIPPING LAW