On beauty, scholarship, and function: The lessons from, and importance of, legal history in the development of the law of marine insurance: [Review of] Marine Insurance: A legal history by Rob Merkin

A few words of explanation at the outset are perhaps necessary – if nothing else than to explain the apparently cryptic title of this review essay. What in fact began as a somewhat straightforward review of a book on the history of marine insurance took a wholly unexpected turn and morphed into a ge...

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spelling sg-smu-ink.sol_research-63322024-01-25T08:13:33Z On beauty, scholarship, and function: The lessons from, and importance of, legal history in the development of the law of marine insurance: [Review of] Marine Insurance: A legal history by Rob Merkin PHANG, Andrew B.L. A few words of explanation at the outset are perhaps necessary – if nothing else than to explain the apparently cryptic title of this review essay. What in fact began as a somewhat straightforward review of a book on the history of marine insurance took a wholly unexpected turn and morphed into a general essay on the beauty, scholarship and function of legal history as viewed through the lenses of marine insurance. Indeed, in addition to being a magisterial two-volume history of the law of marine insurance, the present work demonstrates – in the most vividly possible way – at least three fundamental aspects (or, more accurately, benefits) of legal history as a whole. 2023-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4374 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/6332/viewcontent/Beauty_Scholarship_av.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Insurance Law Legal History
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On beauty, scholarship, and function: The lessons from, and importance of, legal history in the development of the law of marine insurance: [Review of] Marine Insurance: A legal history by Rob Merkin
description A few words of explanation at the outset are perhaps necessary – if nothing else than to explain the apparently cryptic title of this review essay. What in fact began as a somewhat straightforward review of a book on the history of marine insurance took a wholly unexpected turn and morphed into a general essay on the beauty, scholarship and function of legal history as viewed through the lenses of marine insurance. Indeed, in addition to being a magisterial two-volume history of the law of marine insurance, the present work demonstrates – in the most vividly possible way – at least three fundamental aspects (or, more accurately, benefits) of legal history as a whole.
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title On beauty, scholarship, and function: The lessons from, and importance of, legal history in the development of the law of marine insurance: [Review of] Marine Insurance: A legal history by Rob Merkin
title_short On beauty, scholarship, and function: The lessons from, and importance of, legal history in the development of the law of marine insurance: [Review of] Marine Insurance: A legal history by Rob Merkin
title_full On beauty, scholarship, and function: The lessons from, and importance of, legal history in the development of the law of marine insurance: [Review of] Marine Insurance: A legal history by Rob Merkin
title_fullStr On beauty, scholarship, and function: The lessons from, and importance of, legal history in the development of the law of marine insurance: [Review of] Marine Insurance: A legal history by Rob Merkin
title_full_unstemmed On beauty, scholarship, and function: The lessons from, and importance of, legal history in the development of the law of marine insurance: [Review of] Marine Insurance: A legal history by Rob Merkin
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