Fellow Spotlight

Academy Fellow Professor Natalie Klein of UNSW has co-authored Submarines in International Law, the first book to explore both the legal history and the contemporary regulation of submarine operations in varied areas of international law.  Her co-authors are Kate Purcell and Jack McNally, both also of UNSW. 

According to the publisher, the book demonstrates the instances where submarines have influenced the development of the law of the sea and the law of armed conflict, as well as highlighting where international law needs to give greater account of submarines in existing bodies of law - including international marine environmental law, the law on the use of force, navigational safety rules, transnational criminal law and international cultural heritage law.

Submarine operations range from military and defence uses, to supporting research and commercial seabed industries, to ocean tourism and smuggling of illicit goods.

International law regulates all these activities to varying degrees. While submarines may strive to be evasive objects in the ocean, this book demonstrates why they cannot and should not elude the reach of international law.

Details from the publisher including as to purchase are here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/submarines-in-international-law/72B3CF49FC9D6F15250A80A948CC3115

Professor Natalie Klein

Academy fellows Michael Murray and Professor Jason Harris have produced a 12th edition of their standard Australian textbook on insolvency law both personal insolvency and corporate. The book was initially issued in 1993 and was the first book in Australia on insolvency itself. Up to that time there had been separate books on bankruptcy and on liquidation.