Overview
This book fills a critical gap in research on the shipbreaking industry by analyzing the shortcomings of current international and domestic laws. It argues that existing frameworks, such as the Hong Kong Convention and Basel Convention, are insufficient in protecting workers’ health and safety, as evidenced by ongoing fatalities and work-related diseases in South Asia’s shipbreaking industry. The book proposes a new framework that goes beyond prevention to include compensation, holding international shipowners accountable for the harm caused to workers. This includes introducing a Shipbreaking Liability Certificate (SLC) and accompanying insurance, ensuring that affected workers or their families receive compensation. Drawing on lessons from other industries with successful regulatory changes, the book suggests that these measures be adopted under a legal framework supported by the International Maritime Organization (IMO). In addition to its practical recommendations, the book contributes a new theoretical approach by applying rectificatory global justice to the issue of shipbreaking, an area largely unexplored in existing literature. The combination of legal analysis and case studies provides a strong foundation for the proposed civil liability framework, offering a comprehensive solution to the challenges faced by the shipbreaking industry. This book is essential reading for anyone involved in the shipbreaking industry, from policymakers and legal experts to shipowners and international organizations.
Full Product Details
Author: Mohammad Zulfikar Ali
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN: 9789819583249
ISBN 10: 9819583241
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 22 May 2026
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Author Information
Dr Mohammad Zulfikar Ali is a Lecturer in the Curtin Law School, a sole Australian legal practitioner, and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Throughout his professional career, he has engaged with the law in his capacity as legal practitioner, judge, and academic. As a legal practitioner Ali has provisioned legal advice to corporate clients, court advocacy to litigants and education within community legal centres and the not-for-profit sector. In his practise he focuses on Court matters with an emphasis on family law, criminal law, money laundering, corporate law, contract law and strata title. He also provides consultancy services to Australian law firms on matters of civil litigation applicable Ali provides legal advice and representation to not-for-profit community organisatio to overseas jurisdiction. As part of his active interest in public interest advocacy, ns. His 15 years of experience of working as a judge in Bangladesh, a common law country has developed his skill to apply international human rights law principles in domestic courts and make submissions on legal reforms. In academia, Ali has focused on how the law interfaces with the theory of justice, post colonialism, and corporate governance. Ali's research interests are in shipbreaking policy, compensatory justice, and legal reasoning. He engages with law reform in his research sector both nationally and internationally, and has given evidence at several international forum of international shipowners. Ali is the author of “Fundamental of Business and Corporations Law: A Problem-solving Approach”, which was published in 2025 by Thomson Reuters. The book applies a comparative analysis among Australian, Chinese and Indian business and corporations’ laws. It will be used to teach post graduate students in different law schools. His PhD thesis examined the regulation and complexities in Global Shipbreaking Industry. His PhD work addressed the rights of workers of shipbreaking industry to receive compensation from international shipowners through an international legal mechanism. Application of the theories is unique in this area. Along with a PhD from Curtin Law School, Curtin University, he holds a Master of Human Rights Laws and Policies from the University of New South Wales, Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Ali has been embedded with academics from the University of New South Wales, Edith Cowan University, and Charles Darwin University for research.
