Department: Bachelor of Law
Module Description: The scope of this module includes a general view of UAE legislation in maritime law in addition to related international conventions, the rules governing the owenership of Vessel and its registration, lien, mortages and arrest, employment contract on vessel's board, freedom of navigation and innocent passage for warships, carriage of goods by sea and marine insurance, maritime security, maritime boundary delimitation, marine pollution and marine insurance. The course will cover important cases whether in UAE courts or international ones in the above described issues.
The module coordinator will provide students with mandatory texts on UAE Law prepared purposefully for this particular module.
John F. Wilson, Carriage of Goods by Sea, 7th edn (Pearson Education The Limited, 2010)
Stephen D. Grivin, Carriage of Goods by Sea (2011).