Singh, Nagendra Keywords: Carriage of goods by sea | Public international law | Mots clefs: Transport maritime | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Nagendra Singh writes that the principles of the law of merchant shipping partly derive from the domestic law of the States participating in maritime trade, and partly from multilateral treaties and multilateral conventions. First, the author presents the general principles of international law governing merchant shipping. In the second part on public international law …

M. Carbone, Sergio Keywords: Carriage of goods by sea | Mots clefs: Transports maritimes | ABSTRACT Sergio Carbone recalls, in the introduction to his course, in the context of the United Nations, the regulation of the maritime trade, elaboration of the Convention on the Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences preceded by four years the end of the development of the Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea (revision of the 1924 Brussels Convention). Consequently, says the author, any assessment of the regulatio…

González Lapeyre, Edison Keywords: Ports | Régime juridique | Transport maritime | Connaissements | Affrètement | Responsabilité | Mots clefs: Ports | Legal regime | Carriage of goods by sea | Bills of lading | Affreightment | Accountability | ABSTRACT Edison Gonzalez Lapeyre, Former Professor at the University of Uruguay, devotes his course to maritime transport and the port regime. Starting from the observation of the tremendous quantitative increase in trade following globalization and the development of the use of containers, whic…

Brækhus, Sjur Keywords: Carriage of goods by sea | Maritime law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Transports maritimes | Droit maritime | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT The subject of course of Sjur Braekhuis, Professor at the University of Oslo, relates to the frontier zone between private international law and maritime law (or the zone common to these two domains). After general remarks on maritime conflicts of law, the author studies the issue of nationality (flag) and the choice of law. He then explains th…

M. Carbone, Sergio Keywords: International maritime law | Unification of law | Carriage of goods by sea | Contracts | Choice of law | Private international law | Bills of lading | Non-contractual liability | Maritime law | Legal history | Mots clefs: Responsabilité non contractuelle | ABSTRACT The most recent doctrine and case law increasingly note the limits of the use of the nationality criterion of the ship in resolving the conflicts of law. With regard to conflicts of laws relating to the maritime transport of goods, in consideration of t…