QLLM383 / QLLG008 International Regulation of Shipping (Sem 1)

Module description

Since time immemorial, ships and their activities were the subject of customs and laws that inexorably transcended authorities anchored in a single land jurisdiction. It is historically recorder that shipping is the oldest economic activity that engendered the legal concept of, what today we refer to in contemporary terms as, international regulation.

The international regulatory framework of shipping
Registration of ships and open registries
Access to ports, pilotage, and the evolving port-State control
Safety of ship requirements
Ship-source pollution 6. Shipping of (ultra) hazardous and noxious cargo
Rescue of distressed persons at sea (including refugees and irregular migration; and covering also the issue of stowaways)
Regulating maritime labour
The security of merchant shipping (including the new cyber-security guidelines)
Scrapping or recycling of ships, and the new goal-based approach in ship-building
Shifting paradigms in law-making, implementation and enforcement of shipping law.

Prerequisites

None

Applicable Groupings

Mode of Assessment

7,500 word course essay

Credits

22.5 credits