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• The Legal Status of Titanic

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  It has been ten decades now since the luxurious, unsinkable ship started its first and last voyage. The centenary of the tragedy has put ancient shipwrecks into the centre of attention and denoted the legal gaps and anomalies of national and international legal efforts to regulate their legal status and to protect them from treasure hunters. The essay aims to define the legal status of R.M.S. Titanic as being one of the most famous shipwrecks of our time, its story and legal situation might be the object-lesson for the problems and deficiencies of the legal issue of international protection of underwater cultural heritage, the sovereignty and ownership of historical objects found at sea and the anomalies of customary international law concerning shipwrecks.

• Historical Salvage as Investment: The Effect of an ICSID Judgment on Two Legal Areas

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  In 2007 the ICSID concluded that MHS’s contract with Malaysia to undertake complex salvage operations considered investment even if it had not significantly contributed to Malaysia’s economic development thus failed to fall within the scope of the former interpretation of the notion of investment. This decision is significant in the sphere of international investment law as it synthesizes the former practice of the ICSID concerning the definition and conceptual elements of the notion of ’investment’. Besides, the Diana case serves for the enlargement of salvage law; however it can- not be defined as a classical source of law. It gives a new way to legal protection for salvage activity thus it contributes to the orientation in the chaotic mass of mainly customary rules related to shipwreck salvaging.