Courts of admiralty and the common law origins of the American experiment in concurrent jurisdiction
Steven L. Snell.
- Durham, N.C. Carolina Academic Press c2007.
- x, 481 p. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-456) and index.
Maritime commerce and the eighteenth-century American economy -- The impact of independence on American maritime trade -- Maritime commerce and American foreign policy -- The continuity of substantive maritime law -- The struggle for jurisdiction -- Concurrent jurisdiction -- The early history of maritime litigation in the American colonies -- Vice admiralty courts and the Navigation Acts -- The provincial vice admiralty courts -- Factors influencing choice of forum -- Vice admiralty jurisdiction on the eve of the Revolution: a final appraisal -- The maritime jurisdiction of the states -- The Constitutional Convention -- General debate over Article III in the states' ratifying conventions -- Admiralty and the concept of concurrent jurisdiction in the state's ratifying conventions -- Admiralty jurisdiction and the structure of the federal courts -- Concurrent admiralty and maritime jurisdiction -- The Judiciary Act and the Constitution -- Admiralty jurisdiction and substantive law -- The law of nations in late eighteenth-century America -- Lex maritima as part of the law of nations -- Substantive maritime law and concurrent maritime jurisdiction: recapitulation -- Blue water: international and coastal maritime commerce in the antebellum republic -- Continental influence on the early federal courts -- Uniformity and the general maritime law -- Joseph Story and the maritime law -- Brown water: inland navigation in the antebellum republic -- Federal jurisdiction over inland waters.