The Hamburg Lectures 2007 -- Civil Liability and Compensation for Environmental Damage in the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea -- New Developments in the Field of Transport of Dangerous Goods: Presence and Prospects of the CRTD Convention -- Uniform Law and Conflicts in Private Enforcement of Environmental Law: the Maritime Sector and Beyond -- The Hamburg Lectures 2008 -- The Athens Convention on Passenger Liability and the EU -- International Civil Litigation and the Pollution of the Marine Environment -- Some Current Developments in International Maritime Arbitration -- The Peaceful Settlement of Disputes on Maritime Delimitation.

In 2007, the International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), both based in Hamburg, decided to establish an annual lecture series, the "Hamburg Lectures on Maritime Affairs" – giving distinguished scholars and practitioners the opportunity to present and discuss recent developments in the field of maritime affairs. The present volume collects seven of the lectures held in 2007 and 2008 by Thomas A. Mensah, Krijn Haak, Sergio M. Carbone, Lorenzo Schiano di Pepe, Erik Røsæg, Frank Smeele, Carlos Esplugues Mota and Lucius Caflisch.