Class Maritime Law

The subject of the course is the in-depth study of maritime law, an essential area for trade by sea.

1. Background of Maritime Law

2. The national and international dimensions of maritime law

3. Regional and multilateral organizations

4. The EU and Maritime Law

5. The vessel

6. Maritime safety and security

7. Merchant shipping

8. The subjects of maritime transportation

9. Tonnage tax

10. Port management and logistics

11. Maritime liability

12. Maritime credits and insurance and

The teaching method is characterized by a double aspect, the first is the theoretical exposition of the syllabus contents, and the second, more practical, consists in the presentation of work carried out individually by students on a topic included in the syllabus of the subject which are discussed with everyone's participation. The assessment is based on the realization of written works and their oral presentation (70%), also contributing to the assessment, the assiduity, oral participation and the quality of oral and written expression (30%). The evaluation can also be done by means of a final exam.

Schoenbaum, Thomas, Admiralty and Maritime Law, Thomson West, 4.ª edição, 2004;

Becker-Weinberg, Vasco, Flag States’ liability for wrongful acts by private military and security

companies on board ships, in: Ocean Law and Policy: Twenty Years of Development under the UNCLOS

Regime, editado por Harry N. Scheiber e James Kraska, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers/Brill, 2016

Becker-Weinberg, Vasco | Verdirame, Guglielmo, “Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and

shipping interdiction”, in: The Oxford Handbook of The Use of Force in International Law, Marc Weller

(ed.), OUP (2015)

Costa Gomes, Manuel Januário da, Direito Marítimo, vol. IV, Almedina (2008)

Costa Gomes, Manuel Januário da, O Ensino do Direito Marítimo, Lisboa (2005)