Book Review by David J. Sharpe
When maritime lawyers who do cargo work have already acquired, paid for, and become familiar with a first-rate single-volume treatise on marine cargo claims that was published only eleven years ago, they may resist spending 125 U.S. dollars (or a correspondingly large sum in some other currency) for the third edition. The ready purchasers will be the fanatics for periodic examinations and preventive maintenance; on the other hand will be those who say, “If it ain't broke, don't fix it.”
Just what is the “it”' that replaces the second edition? McGill University law professor William Tetley's Marine Cargo Claims is virtually a new book. Was a new book needed? The second edition was not full of errors, and few of the laws that affect marine cargo claims have been rewritten in the last decade. Nevertheless, Professor Tetley has rewritten and nearly doubled the previous work, with the assistance of his Canadian colleague Brian McDonough and his United States collaborator Elliott B. Nixon.
About the Author
David J. Sharpe. Professor of Law, National Law Center, The George Washington University. A.B. 1950, University of North Carolina; LL.B. 1955, S.J.D. 1969, Harvard University.
Citation
64 Tul. L. Rev. 653 (1989)