EU SHIPPING LAW (3rd Edition). Vincent Power, BCL (NUI), LLM, PhD (Cantab), solicitor, Partner, A&L Goodbody. Informa Law from Routledge, Abingdon (2019) 2 vols, cl and 1820 pp, plus 22 pp Index. Hardback £325.

The first edition of this book was published in 1992, the second in 1998, with the third and latest in 2019. The time between editions has therefore been significant, though the book has remained unchallenged as the leading book on the subject. Just as the allocation within a university law syllabus to public international law of a similar amount of space to, say, the law of contract has been somewhat odd—given that the former represents a whole legal system, whereas the latter is one of many topics within a legal system—so does the wide topic of EU Shipping Law differ from, say, the law of carriage of goods by sea. However, EU shipping law differs from public international law in that it is both a different system from national laws and also part of the national laws of EU Member States. Moreover, it combines both laws governing the relationships of members of the Union and laws governing particular topics within individual national laws, in particular competition law. It covers a broad and complex range, so not surprisingly Dr Power has