Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
1-2023
Abstract
A few words of explanation at the outset are perhaps necessary – if nothing else than to explain the apparently cryptic title of this review essay. What in fact began as a somewhat straightforward review of a book on the history of marine insurance took a wholly unexpected turn and morphed into a general essay on the beauty, scholarship and function of legal history as viewed through the lenses of marine insurance. Indeed, in addition to being a magisterial two-volume history of the law of marine insurance, the present work demonstrates – in the most vividly possible way – at least three fundamental aspects (or, more accurately, benefits) of legal history as a whole.
Discipline
Insurance Law | Legal History
Research Areas
Corporate, Finance and Securities Law
Publication
Singapore Journal of Legal Studies
Volume
[2023]
First Page
420
Last Page
438
ISSN
0218-2173
Publisher
National University of Singapore
Citation
PHANG, Andrew B.L..
On beauty, scholarship, and function: The lessons from, and importance of, legal history in the development of the law of marine insurance: [Review of] Marine Insurance: A legal history by Rob Merkin. (2023). Singapore Journal of Legal Studies. [2023], 420-438.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4374
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