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Admiralty and Maritime Law: Admiralty and Maritime (Hornbook Series) by Thomas J. Schoenbaum
Admiralty in a Nutshell by Frank L. Maraist
The Law of Admiralty by Gilmore
Lucas' Cases and Materials on Admiralty, 4th (University Casebook Series®) by Jo Desha Lucas
Admiralty in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series) by Frank L. Maraist
Cases and Materials on Admirality (American Casebook Series) by Nicholas J. Healy
Careers in admiralty and maritime law by Robert M. Jarvis
Admiralty and Maritime Law in the United States (Carolina Academic Press Law Casebook Series) by David W. Robertson
Admiralty: 1998 Statute, Rule and Case Supplement: Cases and Materials by Jo Desha Lucas
Courts of Admiralty in Colonial America: The Maryland Experience, 1634-1776 by David R. Owen
Cases and Materials on Admiralty (University Casebook Series) by Jo Desha Lucas
Practice Commentaries -- FRCP: with CFC, MDL, and Admiralty Rules by Anthony J. Bocchino
Admiralty in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series) by Frank L. Maraist
New directions in maritime law, 1978 : proceedings of an international conference co-sponsored by the Maritime Law by Dalhousie University Faculty of Law
Cases and Materials on Admiralty (American Casebook Series and Basic Legal Texts Nutshell Series) by Nicholas J. Healy
Admiralty law
Admiralty law (usually referred to as simply admiralty and also referred to as maritime law) is a distinct body of law which governs maritime questions and offenses. Under conventions of international law, the flag flown by a ship generally determines the source of law to be applied in admiralty cases, regardless of which court has personal jurisdiction over the parties.
Admiralty law was introduced into England by Eleanor of Aquitaine while she was acting as regent for her son King Richard the Lionhearted. She had earlier established admiralty law on the island of Oleron (where it was published as the Rolls of Oleron) in her own lands (but she is often referred to in admiralty law books as "Eleanor of Guyenne"), having learned about it in the eastern Mediterranean while on Crusade with her first husband, King Louis VII of France. In England special courts, admiralty courts handle all admiralty cases. These courts do not use the common law of England, but are civil law courts based upon the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian.
In the United States, admiralty is under the jurisdiction of the federal courts. However, admiralty courts in the United States are courts of limited jurisdiction, so state courts have concurrent jurisdiction in admiralty when state law claims are at issue. Moreover, state courts may have jurisdiction in admiralty when the matters being adjudicated are local in nature.
See: Barratry, Canals, Docks, Navigation, Piers, Piracy, Seamen, Shipping, Waters, Wharves, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
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