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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0712.00019.] This paper describes recent work of the authors in the Riemann problem for undercompressive shocks [see the authors, Viscous profiles and numerical methods for shock waves, Proc. Workshop, Rayleigh/NC (USA) 1990, 142-154 (1991; Zbl 0752.35035); J. Dyn. Differ. Equations 3, No. 2, 199-271 (1991)] for \(2\times 2\) hyperbolic conservation laws \(U_ t+F(U)_ x=0\), \(U=U(x_ 1t)\in\mathbb{R}^ 2\), \(F:\mathbb{R}^ 2\to\mathbb{R}^ 2\). In particular they study the case when the eigenvalues of \(dF(U)\) are real but not necessarily distinct for all \(U\in\mathbb{R}^ 2\). These systems are called non-strictly hyperbolic and allow for non-classical shock waves. Here the authors show how the non-classical shock wave theory develops from a class of non-strictly hyperbolic problems and can be used to prove unique solvability of the Riemann problem.