Editor's preface

This year’s issue of SIMPLY contains articles which all cover core areas of
the Institute’ research and teaching activities, comprising:

• Thor Falkanger’s article giving an account of the recently enactedNorwegian rules on bare boat charter registry,

• Trine-Lise Wilhelmsen’s article on marine insurance discussingwhether detainment of ships by states constitutes a marine or awar peril (the article is published with permission from Routledgeas it forms part of the book under publication: The ModernLaw of Marine Insurance Vol 5)

Then follows four articles which in one way or the other deals with theconstruction and/or application of maritime law conventions:

• Erling Selvig’s extensive article discussing key questions of globallimitation rules and their national law implementation,

• My own article dealing with ever occurring questions relating toliability exception for nautical fault under the Hague-Visby Rules– and forming an extension of my article in last year’s issue ofSIMPLY,

• Kristina Maria Siig’s article dealing with maritime law conventionsand how they may fare within the context of technologicaldevelopments, viz. the current herald of autonomous ships,

• Ayoub Tailoussane’s article giving an in depth account of the rulesfor collision avoidance (COLREGS), using as a steppingstone arecent English Supreme Court decision the Alexandra I – thusdealing with a topic which so far has received little scholarly attentionin the Nordic maritime law discourse

Trond Solvang