Knowledge and understanding
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- understand international maritime trade and commerce practices and law
- understand the importance of carriage of goods by sea for international trade
- distinguish between several crucial contracts for the performance of international trade: international sales of goods, carriage of goods and cargo insurance
- understand rights and obligations under those contracts
- understand the interests of different parties to those contracts and identify their rights and obligations under the contracts
- understand the concept of different contracts involved in carriage of goods, specifically with respect to liability for damages to cargo carried
Application
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- identify normative regime applicable to contracts for international sales of goods and carriage of goods by sea, with special focus to distinguishing between international and national legal instruments
- identify the remedies of maritime law and commerce in litigation concerning indemnity for damages to the cargo
- find appropriate legal solution to simple practical cases involving carriage of goods by sea and related issues
- identify applicable law and court seized of the case
Analysis
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- demonstrate the understanding of legal issues in carriage of goods by sea contracts;
- analyze the meaning of individual legal norm and its scope and successfully apply it to the practical case
- understand the meaning and content of transport documents, specifically Bill of Lading
- differentiate between concurring legal instruments governing B/L and the liability of the carrier for damages
- differentiate between rights and obligations under charterparties and contracts of affreightment, as well as between different charterparties
Synthesis
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- establish the system of legal norms governing international trade, especially sales and carriage of goods by sea
- understand the hierarchy of international and national legal instruments and the relation between different concurring international legal instruments
- understand the instruments of maritime law within the economic context in which international trade is conducted.
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- identify key legal instruments concerning carriage of goods by sea at national and international level
- identify the applicable legal norm to a particular case involving international sale of goods and carriage of goods by sea
- solve a basic practical case and defend the rights of the parties under the contract
- express themselves in a clear, well-structured text, explaining their standpoints;
- demonstrated acquired communication skills;
- demonstrate acquired legal logic;
- demonstrate the ability of independent professional work.
Evaluation
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- successfully make the choice of law and decide on the court seized of the case in particular case involving carriage of goods by sea
- differentiate between different contracts of carriage by sea and rights and obligations under them
- understand the rights arising from transport documents, especially B/L.
