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.

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, quarta edizione, 2020, Wolters Kluwer - Cedam.

Teaching methods

Classes are held in the 1st semester  

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 a multiple choice test. The test, lasting a maximum of 10 minutes, consists of a multiple choice written test. The test for each student is divided into a total of n. 10 questions. Each question is followed by three answers. For each question there is only one correct answer. Each correct answer is given a different score, depending on the question asked. The incorrect answer has a score of 0. The maximum score obtainable by providing all correct and complete answers is therefore equal to 31 in order to achieve 30 cum laude.The test is passed with a minimum score of 18/30.The test is passed with a minimum score of 18/30.

The final exam 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 discipline.

During the examination, it is forbidden to use books, notes and computer supports.

The examination procedures will be communicated on the Unibo personal page (Notices section).

Examination program for the students who do not attend the lessons

• L'impresa di navigazione (da p. 155 a p. 184);

• I contratti di utilizzazione della nave (da p. 233 a p. 241);

• Il contratto di locazione di nave (da p. 243 a p. 253);

• Il noleggio di nave (da p. 255 a p. 267);

• Il contratto di trasporto in generale: persone e cose (da p. 269 a p. 316);

• Trasporto internazionale di cose su strada (da p. 327 a p. 333);

• Il trasporto marittimo di persone (da p. 335 a p. 354);

• Il trasporto marittimo di cose (da p. 355 a p. 385);

• Trasporto multimodale (da p. 421 a p. 429);

• La documentazione del trasporto di merci (da p. 431 a p. 449) - except paragraphs 21 and 24);

• La spedizione (da p. 484 a p. 487).

Examination program for the students attending assiduously the lessons

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

 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, Erasmus students must write a paper individual or collective (at least 7 pages for each student) on a topic chosen from the following:

• L'impresa di navigazione (da p. 155 a p. 184);
  
• Il contratto di locazione di nave (da p. 243 a p. 253);
• Il noleggio di nave (da p. 255 a p. 267);
• Trasporto internazionale di cose su strada (da p. 327 a p. 333);
• Il trasporto marittimo di persone (da p. 335 a p. 354);
• Il trasporto marittimo di cose (da p. 355 a p. 385);
• La polizza di carico (da p. 431 a p. 445).

 

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 on the website: https://virtuale.unibo.it.

Username and password are reserved for students enrolled at the University of Bologna.

Office hours

See the website of Alessandra Romagnoli