Courts of admiralty and the common law : origins of the American experiment in concurrent jurisdiction / Steven L. Snell.

Maritime commerce and the eighteenth-century American economy
The impact of independence on American maritime trade
Maritime commerce and American foreign policy
The continuity of substantive maritime law
The struggle for jurisdiction
Concurrent jurisdiction
The early history of maritime litigation in the American colonies
Vice admiralty courts and the Navigation Acts
The provincial vice admiralty courts
Factors influencing choice of forum
Vice admiralty jurisdiction on the eve of the Revolution: a final appraisal
The maritime jurisdiction of the states
The Constitutional Convention
General debate over Article III in the states' ratifying conventions
Admiralty and the concept of concurrent jurisdiction in the state's ratifying conventions
Admiralty jurisdiction and the structure of the federal courts
Concurrent admiralty and maritime jurisdiction
The Judiciary Act and the Constitution
Admiralty jurisdiction and substantive law
The law of nations in late eighteenth-century America
Lex maritima as part of the law of nations
Substantive maritime law and concurrent maritime jurisdiction: recapitulation
Blue water: international and coastal maritime commerce in the antebellum republic
Continental influence on the early federal courts
Uniformity and the general maritime law
Joseph Story and the maritime law
Brown water: inland navigation in the antebellum republic
Federal jurisdiction over inland waters.