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BOOK REVIEW - SEEHANDELSRECHT

SEEHANDELSRECHT. Hans-Jürgen Puttfarken, Dr iur., M.C.L., Rechtanswalt, Referent am Max- Planck-Institut für auslädndisches und Internationales Privatrecht, Hamburg. Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft GmbH, Heidelberg (1997) Ixxxii and 413 pp., plus 19 pp. Index. Hardback DM 290.
The subject-matter of this German textbook, private maritime law, should be of intense practical interest to anyone trading with one of the world’s largest export countries. After all, German shipping lines, such as Hapag-Lloyd, customarily refer in their standard bills of lading to German law and jurisdiction. Apart from rather dated standard texts and a number of monographs on specific issues, however, the only reliable and relatively comprehensive commentary on the fifth book of the German Commercial Code (HGB) is the excellent Prüßmann/Rabe, the latest edition of which came

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