Swedish Shipping and Maritime Law in Retrospect 1965–1980

Abstract

A starting point

When I became affiliated with the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law (SCCL) it was not because of me being once upon a time involved in maritime law. Considering that Johan Schelin and the Institute of maritime and transportation law has now joined the SCCL contributing to an important broadening of its activities, it may at this point be appropriate to give a brief recounting of what was a rather long time ago part of my life, in particular because in a Swedish perspective (and for that matter not only Swedish) the shipping industry has undergone drastic changes during the past 50 years. The following is therefore an effort to tie together some development lines of Swedish shipping and maritime law with that of SCCL considering the time span.