Arbitration Clauses in Maritime Contracts

Eleni (Lena) Magklasi is a lecturer in commercial law at the Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. She is also an attorney-at-law and a member of the Athens Bar Association. She obtained her PhD in international commercial law from the University of Southampton with full scholarship from the School of Law. She holds an LLM in Maritime Law from the University of Southampton and an LLB from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Introduction

Chapter 1. The preliminary steps towards finding the law that will determine incorporation of an arbitration clause into the bill of lading

Chapter 2. Identifying the prerequisites for the valid incorporation of charterparty arbitration clauses into bills of lading under English law

Chapter 3. The sequel in the construction of arbitration clauses: the eternal battle of arbitration clauses versus jurisdiction clauses

Chapter 4. The idiosyncratic status of arbitration clauses shines through: the legal principles and their synergies with emphasis on the EU legal framework

Chapter 5. Arbitral awards vs judgments: are arbitration clauses and jurisdiction clauses truly equivalent?

Chapter 6. Final conclusion

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