Maritime risk management: the role of averages in the past and in the future: The AveTransRisk Project

Abstract

I am the odd one out in more ways than one. Not just linguistically as the Anglophone among the Francophones! I am the odd one out here because, although other historians participate to the book, what I am going to develop is not related to the classic jurisprudential side of the story, as has been splendidly done in other chapters. My contribution deals with historical practice and is an attempt at showing the flexibility of the instrument of Averages. I am using the plural on purpose, because as much as most of what I am going to say deals with General Average, some of my considerations deal with other types of Averages.