Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Think critically, develop coherent arguments in writing.
- Display clarity and objectivity in written discussion demonstrating an awareness of issue of academic integrity.
- Distinguish relevant from irrelevant materials.
- Identify and analyse key issues.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- The evolving practices that feature in the exercise of navigational freedoms within international/ national waters, and international waterways.
- The development and content of navigation law, in considering – among other factors – also commercial policy considerations, and the challenges that ships may encounter while at the high seas, within waters of coastal sovereignty or specialised jurisdiction, and in special navigation regions.
- The framework for the exercise of prescriptive and enforcement jurisdiction on ships/vessels.
- The historical legal principles, nautical customs, current rules and major technical standards that compose the law applicable on international navigation.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Identify and explain the internationally accepted navigational passage regimes and historically established navigational customs.
- Analyse relevant legal materials /primary and secondary sources, including international treaties and case-law, as well as public statutory requirements enacted in leading national maritime jurisdictions, and shipping industry-developed standards, with regards to safe, friendly to the environment, and secure navigation/access to ports, with emphasis upon the documentary and certificated endorsements.
- Locate and analyse relevant primary and secondary sources, regarding the establishment of prescriptive and enforcement jurisdictional grounds on ships, and the available scope/procedures for inspection and interdiction at sea.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Independent Study | 130 |
Blended Learning | 20 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
A.V Lowe – S. Talmon (Eds) (2009). The Legal Order of the Oceans, Basic Documents on the Law of the Sea. Oxford: Hart Publishing.
L.B. Sohn, et al. (2014). Cases and Materials on the Law of the Sea. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
Y. Tanaka (2019). The International Law of the Sea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
D. Attard, et al. ( 2016). The IMLI Manual on International Maritime Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Essay or problem question
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: You will receive feedback in accordance with the applicable Law School Rules and via the Law School Feedback sheets, through comments written on the formative work, and orally in a class discussion of the formative work.
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Examination | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Examination | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Examination | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External