00225 - Navigation Law

Learning outcomes

The course aims to acquire and deepen the transport activities' regulations, as well as the discipline of the contractual schemes in the sector and the related liability regime.

Course contents

The course aims to provide a general understanding of the main topics of the Maritime Law. The lectures will examine the legal sources of national, European and International regulations, as well as the most recent proposals of the European transport policy. All the main private aspects of the subject will be studied: the contracts for the use of the ship, the liability of the carrier by sea and road, the documents of transport.

The course aims also to provide students with critical tools to evaluate and understand the complex reality of transport and to identify the legal issues underlying the modern phenomena' discipline and the practice in the shipping and transport law.

Course contents

Shipowner and shipping company. Contracts: bare boat charter, time charter and voyage charter. Transport by road and by sea. Multimodal transport. Transport documents and, in particular, bill of lading.

Program of the Course:

A) - from p. 161 to p. 201 and from p. 240 to p. 255

B) - from p. 261 to p. 273

C) - from p. 275 to p. 288

D) - from p. 289 to p. 307

E) - from p. 309 to p. 359

F) - from p. 371 to p. 380

G) - from p. 381 to p. 409

H) - from p. 411 to p. 453

I) - from p. 499 to p. 508

L) - from p. 509 to p. 535

M) - from p. 566 to p. 570

Comparisons will be performed with the principles of Air Law (whose topics will be studied in the course of Air Law).

Readings/Bibliography

Stefano Zunarelli - Michele M. Comenale Pinto, Manuale di diritto della navigazione e dei trasporti, I, terza edizione, 2016, Wolters Kluwer - Cedam.

Teaching methods

Classes are held in the 1st semester and are aimed at soliciting students' participation. The students, who will have acquired the frequency in the academic year, will take the exam starting from January.

Lessons are supported by seminarial activities/workshops on the main recent legal topics discussed during the Course.

Assessment methods

The final exam is an oral colloquium, intended to test the knowledge of the student, who will be invited to discuss the different legal issues analyzed during the lessons. It will be particularly appreciated the ability of the student to identify, among the law sources and bibliography, the useful information necessary to underline the learning and the discussion of the specific features of the Maritime Law discipline. The oral examination shall be considered successfully passed if the student is able to answer to 3 main questions related to the subjects of the Course program. It is relevant to precise that the knowledge of the student shall be evaluated on the basis of further questions, aimed to specify some aspects of the main questions. The Commission shall promote the student with excellent marks if the student is able to show a critic and complete vision of the different topics, as well as an appropriate and precise language with reference to the present matter. During the examination, it is forbidden to use books, notes and computing devices.

 

Examination program for the students who do not attend the lessons

The oral colloquium will cover issues listed in the section "Course contents". 

Examination program for the students attending assiduously the lessons

Students that will assiduously attend 70 % of the lessons, will study according to a differentiated examination program.

The frequency to the course will be verified through periodic collections of signatures.

Special program for Erasmus students

For Erasmus students the examination program will focus on international conventions and European regulations in the sector of Navigation and transport law. In particular:

• from p. 371 to p. 380
• from p. 381 to p. 409
• from p. 411 to p. 453
• from p. 518 to p. 529.

 

Teaching tools

With reference to attending students, please note that any supplementary educational materials, concerning the topics analyzed during the lessons, will be made available to students in paper format or in electronic format on the website: http://campus.unibo.it/ . Username and password are reserved for students enrolled at the University of Bologna.

Office hours

See the website of Alessandra Romagnoli