Publications
About The CMI Lex Maritima 2025
Eduardo Adragna, ‘Lex Maritima: 25 principios generales para el Derecho Marítimo’ (2025) VII Revista jurídica de San Isidro, 24-29
José María Alcántara González, ‘Los Principios de Lex Maritima, Tokio Mayo 2025’, (2025) Actualidad Marítima y Portuaria
Lucia Diaz-Cameselle, ‘The CMI Lex Maritima 2025: A Transnational Restatement’ (2026) CXXVII Terza Serie III Il diritto marittimo, 555-575
Eric Van Hooydonk, ‘The CMI Lex Maritima 2025 and its significance for the Lex Mercatoria’, in Massimiliano Musi and Lucrezia Pari (eds), Research Handbook on Maritime Law, Edward Elgar, 2026 (forthcoming)
Eric Van Hooydonk, ‘The CMI Lex Maritima 2025: A Lex Mercatoria for the Sea’ (forthcoming)
Eric Van Hooydonk, ‘De CMI Lex Maritima 2025: Een lex mercatoria voor de zee’ (forthcoming)
The paper that launched the CMI Lex Maritima project
Eric Van Hooydonk, ‘Towards a worldwide restatement of the general principles of maritime law’ (2014) 20(3) Journal of International Maritime Law, 170-182
About the preparation of The CMI Lex Maritima 2025
Hidefusa Iida, ‘Twenty-Five General Principles of Maritime Law: Lex Maritima – The Gothenburg Draft’ (2024) 68 The Report of the Japanese Maritime Law Association, 53-62
Francis Reynolds, ‘Codification. Problems of differing legal cultures’, in Justyna Nawrot and Zuzanna Pepłowska-Dąbrowska (eds), Codification of maritime law. Challenges, Possibilities and Experience, Abingdon / New York, Informa Law from Routledge, 2020, 3-9
Eric Van Hooydonk and Jesús Casas, ‘Restatement of the Lex Maritima. Yearly Report’, CMI Yearbook 2024, Antwerp, Comité Maritime International, 2025, 198-292
Eric Van Hooydonk, ‘Restatement of the Lex Maritima. Half-yearly Report (January – June)’, CMI Yearbook 2023, Antwerp, Comité Maritime International, 2024, 225-226
Eric Van Hooydonk, ‘The CMI project for a Declaratory Statement of the Lex Maritima: state of play’ (2023) Journal of International Maritime Law, 382-385
Eric Van Hooydonk, ‘Le projet de Lex Maritima du CMI vient d’être publié’ (2024) Droit maritime français, 992-997
Eric Van Hooydonk, ‘Der Entwurf der CMI Lex Maritima wurde veröffentlicht’ (2024) Transportrecht, 193-195 and 236-267
Eric Van Hooydonk, ‘Het ontwerp van CMI Lex Maritima is klaar’, (2024)Tijdschrift Vervoer & Recht, 115-117
About the lex maritima in general
James Allsop, ‘Maritime Law – The Nature and Importance of Its International Character’ (2010) 34 Tulane Maritime Law Journal, 555-590
James Allsop, ‘Comity and Unity in Maritime Law’ (2016) 47(3) Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce , 279-295, Comité Maritime International, Yearbook 2016. New York II. Documents of the Conference, Antwerp, CMI, 2017, 163-175
James Allsop, ‘Not a Land Girt by Beach and Maritime Law as the Law of an Activity’, (2024) 38(1) Australian and New Zealand Maritime Law Journal, 11 pp
Andreas Maurer, Lex Maritima. Grundzüge eines transnationalen Seehandelsrechts, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2012, 260 pp
Andreas Maurer, ‘Transnational Shipping Law. The Role of Private Legal Actors in International Shipping’, in Miriam Goldby and Loukas Mistelis (eds), The Role of Arbitration in Shipping Law, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, 229-248
Andreas Maurer, ‘Lex maritima’, in Jürgen Basedow, Giesela Rühl, Franco Ferrari and Pedro de Miguel Asensio (eds), Encyclopedia of Private International Law, Cheltenham / Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar, 2017, 1113-1119
Massimiliano Rimaboschi, Méthodes d’unification du droit maritime. Contribution à l’interprétation uniforme, 3 vols., Trieste, E.U.T. 2005, 311 + 367 + 336 pp
Massimiliano Rimaboschi, L’unification du droit maritime. Contribution à la construction d’un ordre juridique maritime, Aix-en-Provence, Presses universitaires d’Aix-Marseille, 2006, 526 pp
William Tetley, “The General Maritime Law – The Lex Maritima” (1996) European Transport Law, 469-506, (1994) 20 Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce, 105-146
Eric Van Hooydonk, Eerste Blauwboek over de herziening van het Belgisch scheepvaartrecht. Proeve van Belgisch Scheepvaartwetboek (Privaatrecht). Algemene toelichting, Antwerp / Apeldoorn, Maklu, 2011, 168-173, para 1.206
About the Comité Maritime International
Giorgio Berlingieri and Stuart Hetherington, Comité Maritime International 1972-2022, Avegno, Comité Maritime International, 2022, 573 pp
Patrick Griggs, ‘The CMI – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’, in Comité Maritime International, Yearbook 2021-2022, Antwerp, CMI, 2023, 405-413
Albert Lilar and Carlo van den Bosch, C., Le Comité Maritime International 1897-1972. International Maritime Committee 1897-1972, s.l., s.d., 120 pp
Thomas A. Mensah, ‘The co-operation between the Comité Maritime International (CMI) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in the development of uniform international maritime law’ (1999) Il diritto marittimo, 153-177
Carlo Van den Bosch, ‘Le Comité Maritime International. 60 années d’histoire de l’unification du droit maritime’, (1958-1959) 11 Mededelingen van de Marine Academie, 1-16
Eric Van Hooydonk, De maritieme canon van Vlaanderen. Zee-, scheepvaart- en havengeschiedenis aan 50 ankers, III, Antwerp / ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Gompel&Svacina, 2025, 1736-1739
Frank Wiswall, Comité Maritime International. A Brief Structural History of the First Century, Ellsworth, Maine, Downest Graphics and Printing, 1997, s.p.
“If Federal legislation, in particular this law, and the rules of international law to which it refers, do not contain any applicable provisions, the court shall rule in accordance with the general principles of maritime law” – Article 7 of the ‘Loi fédérale sur la navigation maritime sous pavillon suisse’