Editor’s Preface

This year’s issue of SIMPLY comprises four articles:

The first is by Aleksander F. Taule, who discusses the relationship between international liability limitation conventions and their relationship to national law – with the topic forming part of a larger discussion with contributions from Erling Selvig in SIMPLY 2021 and myself in SIMPLY 2016.

The second is by Thor Falkanger, who gives an account of rules comprising transition to electronic registration in the Norwegian Ship Registrers.

Then follows two articles on marine insurance, both based on lectures given at a conference on marine insurance organized by the law firm Wikborg Rein and the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law on 13 March 2024. Both articles deal with the influence of events of war on key aspects of marine insurance – the first by Sir Richard Aikens taking an English law perspective, the second by Trine-Lise Wilhelmsen taking a Norwegian and Nordic perspective.

Trond Solvang