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Environmental protection also serves to penalise polluters within domestic legal systems. Admiralty law and the sea law lay a basic framework for free trade and commerce across the world’s oceans and seas, where outside of a country’s zone of control. Shipping companies operate through ordinary principles of commercial law, generalised for a global market. Admiralty law also encompasses specialised issues such as salvage, maritime liens, and injuries to passengers.
- Consumer law could include anything from regulations on unfair contractual terms and clauses to directives on airline baggage insurance.
- According to Malloy , Smith established “a classical