Introduction

Introduction

It scarcely seems possible that 22 years and some months have passed since, during the urgent preparatory work on what was then called the Achille Lauro Convention (and became the 1988 SUA Convention), the IMO Secretary-General, Dr C. P. Srivastava, told me of the project to establish an International Maritime Law Institute under the aegis of the IMO and asked if I would assist in reviewing the draft syllabus and curriculum and, assuming realization of the plans being made, whether I would teach at the Institute.