{"id":32,"date":"2026-01-17T18:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:23:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:23:02","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/?page_id=32","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-9c7b4687 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3a88641f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1748\" height=\"907\" src=\"https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DMFcrop-kopie-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-333\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.92858728631688;width:311px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DMFcrop-kopie-1.jpg 1748w, https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DMFcrop-kopie-1-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DMFcrop-kopie-1-1024x531.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DMFcrop-kopie-1-768x398.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DMFcrop-kopie-1-1536x797.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1748px) 100vw, 1748px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1621\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Transportrecht-covercrop.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-329\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2.1071313065976716;width:335px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Transportrecht-covercrop.jpg 1621w, https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Transportrecht-covercrop-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Transportrecht-covercrop-1024x486.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Transportrecht-covercrop-768x364.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Transportrecht-covercrop-1536x729.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1621px) 100vw, 1621px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1643\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TVR-covercrop-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-331\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2.3760310046705753;width:378px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TVR-covercrop-1.jpg 1643w, https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TVR-covercrop-1-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TVR-covercrop-1-1024x431.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TVR-covercrop-1-768x323.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TVR-covercrop-1-1536x646.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1643px) 100vw, 1643px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About The CMI Lex Maritima 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eduardo Adragna, &#8216;Lex Maritima: 25 principios generales para el Derecho Mar\u00edtimo&#8217; (2025) VII <em>Revista jur\u00eddica de San Isidro, <\/em>24-29<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Alc\u00e1ntara Gonz\u00e1lez, &#8216;Los Principios de Lex Maritima, Tokio Mayo 2025&#8217;, (2025) <em>Actualidad Mar\u00edtima y Portuaria<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lucia Diaz-Cameselle, &#8216;The CMI Lex Maritima 2025: A Transnational Restatement&#8217; (2026) CXXVII Terza Serie III <em>Il diritto marittimo<\/em>, 555-575<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Van Hooydonk, \u2018The CMI Lex Maritima 2025 and its significance for the Lex Mercatoria\u2019, in Massimiliano Musi and Lucrezia Pari (eds), <em>Research Handbook on Maritime Law, Edward Elgar<\/em>, 2026 (forthcoming)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Van Hooydonk, \u2018The CMI Lex Maritima 2025: A Lex Mercatoria for the Sea\u2019 (forthcoming)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Van Hooydonk, &#8216;De CMI Lex Maritima 2025: Een lex mercatoria voor de zee&#8217; (forthcoming)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The paper that launched the CMI Lex Maritima project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Van Hooydonk, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Lex-Maritima-JIML-2014.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"203\">Towards a worldwide restatement of the general principles of maritime law<\/a>\u2019 (2014) 20(3) <em>Journal of International Maritime Law<\/em>, 170-182<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About the preparation of The CMI Lex Maritima 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hidefusa Iida, &#8216;Twenty-Five General Principles of Maritime Law: Lex Maritima &#8211; The Gothenburg Draft&#8217; (2024) 68 <em>The Report of the Japanese Maritime Law Association<\/em>, 53-62<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Francis Reynolds, \u2018Codification. Problems of differing legal cultures\u2019, in Justyna Nawrot and Zuzanna Pep\u0142owska-D\u0105browska (eds), <em>Codification of maritime law. Challenges, Possibilities and Experience, <\/em>Abingdon \/ New York, Informa Law from Routledge, 2020, 3-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Van Hooydonk and Jes\u00fas Casas, \u2018Restatement of the Lex Maritima. Yearly Report\u2019, <em>CMI Yearbook 2024<\/em>, Antwerp, Comit\u00e9 Maritime International, 2025, 198-292<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Van Hooydonk, \u2018Restatement of the Lex Maritima. Half-yearly Report (January &#8211; June)\u2019, <em>CMI Yearbook 2023<\/em>, Antwerp, Comit\u00e9 Maritime International, 2024, 225-226<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Van Hooydonk, \u2018The CMI project for a Declaratory Statement of the Lex Maritima: state of play\u2019 (2023) <em>Journal of International Maritime Law<\/em>, 382-385<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Van Hooydonk, \u2018Le projet de Lex Maritima du CMI vient d\u2019\u00eatre publi\u00e9\u2019 (2024) <em>Droit maritime fran\u00e7ais<\/em><em>,<\/em> 992-997<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Van Hooydonk, \u2018Der Entwurf der CMI Lex Maritima wurde ver\u00f6ffentlicht\u2019 (2024) <em>Transportrecht<\/em><em>,<\/em> 193-195 and 236-267<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Van Hooydonk, \u2018Het ontwerp van CMI Lex Maritima is klaar\u2019, (2024)<em>Tijdschrift Vervoer &amp; Recht<\/em>, 115-117<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About the lex maritima in general<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James Allsop, \u2018Maritime Law \u2013 The Nature and Importance of Its International Character\u2019 (2010) <em>34 Tulane Maritime Law Journal<\/em>, 555-590<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James Allsop, \u2018Comity and Unity in Maritime Law\u2019 (2016) 47(3) <em>Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce <\/em>, 279-295, Comit\u00e9 Maritime International, <em>Yearbook 2016. New York II. Documents of the Conference, <\/em>Antwerp, CMI, 2017, 163-175<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James Allsop, \u2018Not a Land Girt by Beach and Maritime Law as the Law of an Activity\u2019, (2024) 38(1) <em>Australian and New Zealand Maritime Law Journal<\/em>, 11 pp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andreas Maurer, <em>Lex Maritima. Grundz\u00fcge eines transnationalen Seehandelsrechts<\/em>, T\u00fcbingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2012, 260 pp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andreas Maurer, \u2018Transnational Shipping Law. The Role of Private Legal Actors in International Shipping\u2019, in Miriam Goldby and Loukas Mistelis (eds), <em>The Role of Arbitration in Shipping Law<\/em>, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, 229-248<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andreas Maurer, \u2018Lex maritima\u2019, in J\u00fcrgen Basedow, Giesela R\u00fchl, Franco Ferrari and Pedro de Miguel Asensio (eds), <em>Encyclopedia of Private International Law<\/em>, Cheltenham \/ Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar, 2017, 1113-1119<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Massimiliano Rimaboschi, <em>M\u00e9thodes d\u2019unification du droit maritime. Contribution \u00e0 l\u2019interpr\u00e9tation uniforme,<\/em> 3 vols., Trieste, E.U.T. 2005, 311 + 367 + 336 pp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Massimiliano Rimaboschi, <em>L\u2019unification du droit maritime. Contribution \u00e0 la construction d\u2019un ordre juridique maritime, <\/em>Aix-en-Provence, Presses universitaires d\u2019Aix-Marseille, 2006, 526 pp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">William Tetley, \u201cThe General Maritime Law \u2013 The Lex Maritima\u201d (1996) <em>European Transport Law<\/em>, 469-506, (1994) 20<em> Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce<\/em>, 105-146<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Van Hooydonk, <em>Eerste Blauwboek over de herziening van het Belgisch scheepvaartrecht. Proeve van Belgisch Scheepvaartwetboek (Privaatrecht). Algemene toelichting, <\/em>Antwerp \/ Apeldoorn, Maklu, 2011, 168-173, para 1.206<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About the Comit\u00e9 Maritime International<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Giorgio Berlingieri and Stuart Hetherington, <em>Comit\u00e9 Maritime International 1972-2022,<\/em> Avegno, Comit\u00e9 Maritime International, 2022, 573 pp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patrick Griggs, \u2018The CMI \u2013 Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow\u2019, in Comit\u00e9 Maritime International, <em>Yearbook 2021-2022, <\/em>Antwerp, CMI, 2023, 405-413<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Albert Lilar and Carlo van den Bosch, C., <em>Le Comit\u00e9 Maritime International 1897-1972. International Maritime Committee 1897-1972,<\/em> s.l., s.d., 120 pp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thomas A. Mensah, &#8216;The co-operation between the Comit\u00e9 Maritime International (CMI) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in the development of uniform international maritime law&#8217; (1999) <em>Il diritto marittimo<\/em>, 153-177<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carlo Van den Bosch, \u2018Le Comit\u00e9 Maritime International. 60 ann\u00e9es d\u2019histoire de l\u2019unification du droit maritime\u2019, (1958-1959) 11 <em>Mededelingen van de Marine Academie<\/em>, 1-16<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Van Hooydonk, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/maritiemecanon.vlaanderen\/\">De maritieme canon van Vlaanderen. Zee-, scheepvaart- en havengeschiedenis aan 50 ankers<\/a>,<\/em> III, Antwerp \/ \u2018s-Hertogenbosch, Gompel&amp;Svacina, 2025, 1736-1739<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frank Wiswall,&nbsp; <em>Comit\u00e9 Maritime International. A Brief Structural History of the First Century,<\/em> Ellsworth, Maine, Downest Graphics and Printing, 1997, s.p.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-accent-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:40px;border-top-right-radius:40px;border-bottom-left-radius:40px;border-bottom-right-radius:40px\">&#8220;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&#8221; &#8211; Article 7 of the &#8216;Loi f\u00e9d\u00e9rale sur la navigation maritime sous pavillon suisse&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About The CMI Lex Maritima 2025 Eduardo Adragna, &#8216;Lex Maritima: 25 principios generales para el Derecho Mar\u00edtimo&#8217; (2025) VII Revista jur\u00eddica de San Isidro, 24-29 Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Alc\u00e1ntara Gonz\u00e1lez, &#8216;Los Principios de Lex Maritima, Tokio Mayo 2025&#8217;, (2025) Actualidad Mar\u00edtima y Portuaria Lucia Diaz-Cameselle, &#8216;The CMI Lex Maritima 2025: A Transnational Restatement&#8217; (2026) CXXVII Terza [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexmaritima.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}