Comparative Maritime Law

The Editorial Board of Comparative Maritime Law has accepted to prepare the Collection of Papers from the TransLawFer 2014 Zagreb Conference in a separate issue of the Journal.

More information will be provided during the Conference, including the deadline for submission of final papers.

The Journal

Poredbeno pomorsko pravo (PPP) = Comparative Maritime Law (CML), ISSN 1331-9914 (Print); ISSN 1848-8927 (Online), is a peer-reviewed open access law journal published annually by the Adriatic Institute of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Zagreb, Croatia). The editor in chief is Prof. Davorin Rudolf, Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

The journal is the key periodical in the field of maritime law and the law of the sea in Croatia, but also in the region. It has an international editorial board and all the articles are peer reviewed by the leading local and foreign experts and academics.

The journal was first published by the Adriatic Institute in 1958 as Uporedno pomorsko pravo i pomorska kupoprodaja (= Comparative Maritime Law and Maritime Contracts of Sale). In the 1950s the Adriatic Institute was charged with the preparation and drafting of the then entirely new Yugoslav maritime legislation. The aim of this periodical publication at that time was to offer solutions for the academic, professional and practical problems of maritime law; propose rules of maritime trade and transport law; provide current information on legal instruments in the field of maritime economy and international trade. The journal took its modern shape in 1983 (issue 100). Before the 1990s it was published quarterly, whilst thereafter it became an annual publication. The latest issue is No. 167 for the year 2013 (Volume 52).

Today the journal covers all topics of international, domestic and comparative maritime and shipping law, transport law and the international law of the sea. It is focused on publishing academic and professional articles, professional translations of the international legal instruments and documentation, digests of the leading domestic, foreign and international court and arbitral decisions, book reviews, reports from the relevant meetings, conferences, symposia and similar events.

The journal is open for cooperation with the academics, researchers, and professional experts from Croatia and abroad, from universities and other academic or research institutions, judicature, state administration, shipping, transport and insurance sectors.

The materials are published in Croatian or English language.

The journal is supported by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports, the Foundation of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the occasional private sponsors and donators.

The articles published in the Journal are listed and abstracted in Academic Search Complete (EBSCO); Legal Source (EBSCOhost); CSA Oceanic Abstracts; ASFA Database = Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts Bibliographic Database ; WZB (Berlin) : Electronic Journals (via Hrcak) ; AAAS Journals (via EBSCO) ; SUDOC (ABES).

The journal is printed in 200-250 copies and is circulated to the academics, professionals and institutions around the world. The electronic version is made available in the open access on the Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia – Hrcak at http://hrcak.srce.hr/ one year after the date of publication.

More information about the journal is available on http://hrcak.srce.hr/poredbeno-pomorsko-pravo.

Instructions for the Authors

The CML publishes materials related to the fields of the international law of the sea and maritime law, including shipping and transport law, marine and transport insurance law, maritime labour law, protection of marine environment, maritime safety and security and similar. The Editorial board shall accept only unpublished materials. The articles accepted for the publication or already published in the CML, may be published in other publications only subject to the approval of the Editorial board, and in that case with a clear reference to the original publication in the CML.

The academic articles are subject to the blind peer review procedure. Each article shall be reviewed by two peer reviewers proposed by the Editorial board and nominated by the Academy’s Department of Social Sciences. Depending on the reviewers’ evaluations, the articles shall be categorized as:

(1) original scientific paper – the paper which is characterised by originality of conclusions, or which presents previously unpublished original results of scientific research;

(2) review article - the article which contains detailed and comprehensive critical review of a certain problem area, but with no significant originality of results;

(3) preliminary communication – the paper which presents primary findings of research in progress, which due to current interest require immediate publication, but without the level of deep and thorough study required for the scientific paper, and

(4) professional paper – the paper which contains information and experience relevant for a certain profession, but without scientific characteristics.

The reviews shall be anonymous and the reviewers shall communicate their comments, suggestions and corrections to the authors exclusively via the Editorial board.

Other materials, such as professional translations, book reviews, case law commentaries or digests, reports etc., shall not be subject to the peer review but only to the editing process.

Upon the publication, the Editorial board shall retain the rights to the printed and electronic version of the published material.

Each manuscript shall contain the following elements:

• title (in the original language and in English),

• author’s details (name and surname, academic title, professional position, personal e-mail address, name and address of the home institution),

• abstract (in the original language and in English, about 250 words),

• key words (in the original language and in English),

• body text,

• bibliography/list of references (according to the customary academic rules of citation).

The materials for publication are to be submitted to:

Adriatic Institute,

Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Šenoina 4, 10000 Zagreb

Croatia

tel: +385 1 49 20 733,

tel/fax: + 385 1 48 12 703,

e-mail: jz@hazu.hr