Publications on Ocean Development Regulating Autonomous Vessels

This book identifies legal gaps in regulating autonomous vessels. Based on criteria for the future legal framework for autonomous vessels, it compares and evaluates international, regional, and European; binding and non-binding legal instruments that could provide an appropriate future legal framework. This book adds to the legal research on autonomous vessels and proposes a combined international-supranational regulation concept, introducing the reader to the most urgent international legal aspects with respect to autonomous ships. The future legal framework must be technology-neutral and reliable, and it has to be in place as soon as possible to integrate autonomous ships into the existing international legal framework. The book provides the reader with a comprehensive and innovative comparison of different regulatory approaches, including regional and European instruments. The effect of non-binding instruments is analyzed based on rational choice theory.