The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 ─ A Legal Primer to an Emergine International Regime

The Maritime Labour Convention--the "seafarers' bill of rights"--was adopted five years ago by the 94th (Maritime) Session of the International Labour Conference of the International Labour Organization. This volume mixes practical, scholarly, and archival information and is intended for a diverse audience of maritime and law-of-the-sea practitioners involved with issues of social justice and fair competition in the maritime world. The appendix includes the text of the 100-page annotated MLC, and other important documents are available on the book's website. The three authors worked together for over a decade developing the text of the Convention in various roles under the auspices of the International Labour Office. They are: Moira L. McConnell (Canada), Dominick Daylin (Italy), and Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry (Switzerland). Marinus Nijhoff is an imprint of Brill. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dr. Moira L. McConnell is Professor of Law and Associate at the Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Dalhousie University. She was an advisor to the ILO concerning the development and implementation of the MLC, 2006. She is an editor of the Ocean Yearbook and has published extensively on international law of the sea, maritime law, law reform, and regulatory system design.Mr. Dominick Devlin is a former Legal Adviser to the International Labour Organization. He is currently Chair of the World Intellectual Property Organization, Appeal Board and has been a Special Advisor to the ILO in connection with the MLC, 2006 since 2001. Dr. Cleopatra Doumbia–Henry is the Director of the International Labour Standards Department of the ILO. She has been involved in the development of the MLC, 2006 since its beginning in 2001.