Georgetown University Law Center
Scholarship @ GEORGETOWN LAW
2012
Insuring Maritime Trade with the Enemy in the
Napoleonic Era
Su Jin Kim
Georgetown University Law Center
James Oldham
Georgetown University Law Center, [email protected]
This paper can be downloaded free of charge from:
http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/fwps_papers/157
Tex. Int'l L.J., (forthcoming)
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