Published 2001-10-10
Keywords
- globalisation,
- jurisdiction,
- private international law,
- international maritime conventions,
- information technology
- intellectual property,
- salvage,
- The Titanic,
- historic shipwreck,
- electronic commerce,
- electronic bills of lading,
- marine environment,
- marine pollution,
- Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage 2001,
- underwater cultural heritage,
- conservation ...More
Abstract
This copy of the address was originally published in Volume 16 of the Australian and New Zealand Maritime Law Journal (2002), from page 21.
In this address, Justice Tamberlin presents an overview of some of the implications of globalisation with respect to developments which impinge upon the law. Tamberlin considers the meaning of 'globalisation', the ongoing increase in the numbers of maritime conventions, treaties, and Model Laws, education and guidance by maritime organisations, technology, the growing abundance of information available online, the intersection of salvage law and intellectual property, central data banks, global values (as toward the environment and conservation) as a counter-pressure to economic and financial globalisation, international comity, and finally the way in which courts harness technology.
Tamberlin concludes that it is of fundamental importance to educate, induce, and persuade newly active trading nations to participate and assist in the development of international maritime law designed to meet these emerging issues.