TY  - BOOK
AU  - Snell,Steven L.
TI  - Courts of admiralty and the common law: origins of the American experiment in concurrent jurisdiction
SN  - 1594601739 (alk. paper)
AV  - KF 1112 .S645 2007
U1  - 343.7309/6 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Durham, N.C.
PB  - Carolina Academic Press
KW  - Admiralty
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Local
KW  - Common Law
KW  - LEMB
KW  - Jurisdiction
N1  - 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
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0611/2006010306.html
ER  -