Guia docente 2023_24
Facultade de Ciencias Xurídicas e do Traballo
Grado en Derecho
 Subjects
  Maritime law
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
BLOCK I: CONCEPT AND SOURCES LESSON 1: Sources and concept of Maritime Law
I.- Sources
1.- Internal legislation
2.- International normative body
1) Producing organisations and promoters of maritime legislation
2) Problems of applicability of the international rule
II.- Concept of Maritime Law
BLOCK II: ORGANISATION OF NAVIGATION LESSON 2: Spaces of the navigation
I.- Introduction: the navigation in the Right of the Sea
II.- Navigation by the different spaces
1.- Internal waters 2.- Territorial sea 3.- International straits 4.- Contiguous zone 5.- Exclusive economic zone 6.- Continental platform 7.- Archipelagic waters 8.- High Sea.

LESSON 3: Administrative ordenation of the navigation.
I.- Maritime administration
1.- Central administration 1) central Organs 2) peripheral Organs
2.- Autonomic administration
II.- Administrative diet of the navigation 1.- Supposed special of navigation 2.- Scale in ports 3.- Intervention on ships
BLOCK III: SUBJECTS OF NAVIGATION LESSON 4: The Shipowner
I.- Concepts of shipowner and of owner of ship.
II.- Legal regime of the shipowner.
III.- Advertising of the shipowner
1) Advertising in the merchant register 2) Advertising in the Register of companies shipowners.
IV.- The limitation of responsibility of the shipowner.

LESSON 5: Auxiliaries of shipowner.
I.- Introduction
II.- Auxiliaries and agents in earth
1) Managing of the shipowner 2) Ship Agent of the ship 3) The forwarder
III.- Auxiliari and agents on board
1) Crew 2) The captain 3) Other subjects
IV.- Brokers.
BLOCK IV: THE SHIP LESSON 6: The Ship
I.- Basic concepts and juridical nature
II.- Register and nationality of the ship.
III.- The property of the ship: ways of acquisition of the property
1) Introduction: ways of acquisition of personal right and of acquisition of public right 2) The contract of construction of ship 3) The contract of purchase sale of ship
IV.- The privileged maritime credits and ship mortgages.

LESSON 7: Contract of utilisation of the ship.
I.- Charter parties
1) Introduction: line tramp and line regulate 2) Modalities of charters 1.- The bareboat charter 2.- The time charter 3.- The voyage charter 4.- The VCOA 3) Modalities of contracts in regular line: the BL transport regime
II.- The contract of transport of persons.
III.- The Tow agreement
IV.- Other contractual modalities
BLOCK V: ACCIDENTS OF NAVIGATION AND MARINE INSURANCE LESSON 8: The accidents and extraordinary events in the navigation
I.- The averages
1) Concept and classes 2) The General Average 3) The particular average
II.- Collision
1) Legislation and concept 2) Civil Responsibility 3)The fault in collisions
4) Responsible subject
III.- Assistance and maritime rescue
IV.- The tow extraordinary in the sea
V.- The findings and maritime extractions

LESSON 9: The maritime insurance
I.- Introduction to the safe and to the insurance markets
II.- The contract of maritime insurance
1) Concept 2) Characteristic 3) Regulation 4) Classes 5) personal Elements 6) formal Elements 7) Interests ensured 8) The risk ensured 9) Duties of the parts
III.- The coinsurance
IV.- The reinsurance
V.- The Clubs of Protection and indemnization.
1) Concept 2) Origin 3) Function.
BLOCK VI: MARITIME PROCESSES LESSON 10: Maritime Processes.
I.- Ship arrest
1) preventive arrest of the ship 2) the executive arrest of the ship
II.- The maritime arbitration
III.- Other procedural specialitys
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