1st Edition
Regulating Unmanned Vessels Emerging Solutions
Notes on contributors ix
Foreword by Massimiliano Musi xix
Preface xxi
Table of cases xxiii
Table of legislation xxv
PART I ACTIVITIES AT THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
CHAPTER 1 REGULATORY CHALLENGES LINKED TO MASS 3
Henrik Ringbom
CHAPTER 2 LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR MASS REGULATION AT IMO 16
Maria Pia Benosa
CHAPTER 3 EU AND MASS 34
Eva Ricarda Baddenhausen
CHAPTER 4 CMI AND MASS 45
Melis Özdel
PART II DISCUSSION ON EMERGING ISSUES ARISING FROM THE WORK OF INTERNATIONAL BODIES
CHAPTER 5 THE JURISDICTIONAL REACH OF FLAG STATES OVER REMOTE OPERATION CENTRES 55
Murat Sümer
CHAPTER 6 AUTONOMOUS SHIPS – DO WE NEED A MASS MASTER? 71 Frank Stevens
CHAPTER 7 MASS AND STCW – EMERGING PROBLEMS WITH REFERENCE TO SEAFARERS 96
Marija Pijaca and Božena Bulum
CHAPTER 8 NEXT-GENERATION AUTONOMOUS VESSELS AND THE IMO’S DECARBONIZATION GOALS: AN OVERVIEW 109
Barbara Stępień
CHAPTER 9 MASS AND INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SECURITY LAW 119
Aref Fakhry
CHAPTER 10 UNMANNED VESSELS: MARITIME SECURITY AND THE UK’S GOAL OF PROACTIVE LEGISLATION 131
Raphael Esu
CHAPTER 11 PROBLEMS ARISING FROM THE IMO’S REGULATORY SCOPING EXERCISES – PATHS TO TAKE 145
Zuzanna Pepłowska-Dąbrowska and Igor Vio
PART III INSURANCE AND LIABILITY REGIME FOR MASS
CHAPTER 12 SOME THOUGHTS ON THE INSURANCE OF AUTONOMOUS SHIPS 165
David Rhidian Thomas
CHAPTER 13 MASS AND THE LLMC: EXAMINING THE LIMITS OF THE CONVENTION’S APPLICABILITY 193
Iva Tuhtan Grgić
CHAPTER 14 AI, AI CAPTAIN, MASS LIABILITY AHOY 208
Mihael Mišo Mudrić and Kristijan Kotarski
PART IV MASS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR MASS – DILEMMAS AND SOLUTIONS
CHAPTER 15 LIABILITY FOR DAMAGE CAUSED BY AUTONOMOUS SHIPS IN LIGHT OF THE EU FRAMEWORK ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 227 Manuel Alba Fernández and Juan Pablo Rodríguez Delgado
CHAPTER 16 INHUMAN ETHICS? LEGAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE MARITIME SECTOR 243
Justyna Nawrot and Iwona Zużewicz-Wiewiórowska
CHAPTER 17 NAVIGATING AUTONOMY WITH HUMAN CONTROL: REGULATORY APPROACHES FOR AUTONOMOUS SHIPPING IN JAPAN AND KOREA 261
Unho Lee
Index 281
Biography
Zuzanna Pepłowska-Dąbrowska is an Assistant Professor at the Commercial, Maritime and Civil Procedure Law Department of the Law and Administration Faculty at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Between 2015 and 2019, she was a member of the Polish Codification Commission for Maritime Law. She is a Board Member of the Polish Maritime Law Association, a member of the Maritime Law Commission’s board of the Polish Academy of Sciences and an arbitrator in maritime disputes. She is an author of many publications in the field of maritime law in Polish and English, including Codification of Maritime Law (Informa Law from Routledge 2020) and Maritime Safety - A Comparative Approach (Informa Law from Routledge 2021) (both as a co-editor and contributor). She has researched in multiple maritime law centres, including Swansea, Southampton, Oslo, Cadiz, Castellon de la Plana and New Orleans (the latter as a Fulbright grantee). She is a member of the Polish Delegation to the Legal Committee sessions in London and one of the directors of the maritime and transport law course annually held in Dubrovnik.
Igor Vio has been teaching courses in Maritime Law, Law of the Sea, Maritime Labour Law, Environmental Law and Transport Insurance as an Associate Professor at the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Maritime Studies. As a visiting lecturer, he has participated in courses and delivered lectures at the IMO International Maritime Law Institute in Malta, the IMO International Maritime Academy in Trieste, the International Ocean Institute at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada and the World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden. His legal education includes an LLB degree at the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law, an LLM in Ocean and Coastal Law at the University of Miami, School of Law, an LLM in the Maritime Law and Law of the Sea and a PhD degree in Maritime Law from the University of Split, Faculty of Law. As a UN fellow, he spent one year in the United States and worked at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs in New York City. Igor Vio has published papers covering various fields of the international law of the sea and maritime law. He was the editor of the volume Maritime Code of the Republic of Croatia and Recent Developments in the Area of Maritime and Transportation Law and a member of the working group for drafting amendments of the Maritime Code. As an invited speaker, he participated with presentations at various national and international conferences. He is the Secretary General of the Croatian Maritime Law Association and a Titulary Member of the CMI.
