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Set in 1969-70, this is a chronicle of a young man's flight fromthe Viet Nam draft and potential arrest on unrelated charges. Thestory starts in Seattle and goes to the coast of Maine, a vegetableoil factory in New Orleans, the red light district of wartime Saigon,and ends up with hitchhiking on Route 66 to get back to Seattle fromNew Orleans.This is the first in a collection of sea stories based upon theauthor's experience working aboard 17 freighters and tankers from1970 to 1982. John Merriam was an unlicensed seaman in the U.S.merchant marine for those 12 years while working his way throughcollege and law school. Tuition for law school was paid with ascholarship from the Seafarers International Union. Passing the barin 1982, he was associate and then partner at a small, generalpractice firm in Seattle before starting his own firm in 1996.Mr. Merriam now restricts his law practice to representingindividuals with claims for maritime wages or injury. He is a solepractitioner with an office at Seattle's Fishermen's Terminal.The author lives with his wife, Kaye Walker, in Shoreline, WA.

A new and innovative examination of the conduct of Roman long-distance trade in its social and legal context Bringing together specialists in ancient history, archaeology and Roman law, this book provides new perspectives on long-distance trade in the Roman world. Recent archaeological work has shown that maritime trade across the Mediterranean intensified greatly at the same time as the Roman state was extending its power overseas. This book explores aspects of this development and its relationship with changes in the legal and institutional apparatus that supported maritime commerce. It analyses the socio-legal framework within which maritime trade was conducted, and in doing so presents a new understanding of the role played by legal and social institutions in the economy of the Roman world. Chapters cover: Roman maritime trade, the influence of commercial considerations on navigational decision making, Roman legal responses to the threat of piracy, the conduct of Roman maritime trade from a socio-legal perspective, the role of written documentation in the transport process, maritime finance and the insights provided by the juristic interpretation of contracts of carriage-by-sea into aspects of Roman private law. Peter Candy is a Fellow in Roman Law and European Legal History at the University of Edinburgh. Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and Research Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kollegium in Münster, Germany.

The Greek Code of Private Maritime Law, the first English-language translation of Greek Law 5020/2023, which radically overhauled the Greek Code of Private Maritime Law, was painstakingly translated and edited over the course of 2023.The purpose of this publication is to clarify the Greek legal system for international investors, entrepreneurs and legal practitioners in the shipping industry, providing them with a thoroughly research translation of the entire text of the law rather than piecemeal Articles or the gist and main points. The translation of the law is accompanied by Greek-to-English and English-to-Greek glossaries of the terms encountered in the Code.The book includes:An introduction by Dr Iliana Christodoulou-Varotsi, Senior Legal Consultant & Shipping Industry Trainer;An introduction by Dr Despina Kiltidou, DJur, LL.M., Maritime Training Instructor;An introduction by Nigel P. Ready, Scrivener Notary, and co-author of the translation of the old Code of Private Maritime Law (Law 3816/1958);A detailed foreword by the translators on their approach, methodology and the translational issues faced and resolved.A side-by-side translation of Law 5020/2023, including all amendments and updates until May 2023.Two useful glossaries of the key terminology used in the above texts (Greek-English and English-Greek).This volume is an indispensable bilingual aid for:Legal practitioners consulting clients involved in shipping in Greece;Legal departments of shipping companies already set up in Greece;Investors and entrepreneurs intending to incorporate a shipping company in Greece, so that they remain abreast of developments in the field of their legal obligations;Translators translating from and into Greek who require a high-quality reference when consulting either this specific Code or other laws citing it, as well as dependable glossaries;Law and translation students interested in seeing a real-life application of their studies and requiring a reference volume for purposes of terminology and English legal drafting.