Knowledge and understanding
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- define basic branches and institutes of maritime and general transport law;
- explain the position of maritime and general transport law in the system of legal and economic sciences;
- critically evaluate and recognise new market trends in international transport of goods, and characteristics of multimodal transport;
- identify trends of development of maritime and general transport law;
- indicate basic categories and principles of maritime and general transport law according to individual branches
- explain the ration for imposing maritime and general transport law norms as a manner of regulating the relation between contractual parties and towards third persons;
- explain the protection of rights of passengers within domestic and international transport by sea, road, rail or air;
- explain the role of marine insurance in uninterrupted conduct of international trade;
- explain the role of the institute of insurance in uninterrupted conduct of transport of goods and passengers, and other similar activities in the area of maritime and general transport law;
- explain the significance of maritime law for the protection of maritime environment;
- indicate characteristics of contractual and non-contractual liability that can occur during usage of means of transport;
- discuss legal regulation of the maritime demesne.
Application
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- group and describe basic branches of maritime and general transport law;
- interpret maritime and general transport law norms, and apply them correctly and timely in practice;
- understand differences between individual branches of maritime and general transport law;
- apply the knowledge about transport law to understand international trade;
- demonstrate the ability to resolve maritime and general transport problems in examples of cases from practice;
- select appropriate legal solution and adequately apply it in solving a concrete legal problem;
- demonstrate knowledge and skills acquired during the study in practice;
- use available domestic and foreign professional literature.
Analysis
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- categorise basic categories of maritime and general transport law and basic legal units iwthin individual categories;
- demonstrate understanding of legal issues in transport contracts;
- demonstrate understanding of legal issues in shipping contracts;
- demonstrate understanding of legal issues in contract on marine insurance;
- demonstrate understanding of legal issues related to concession on maritime demesne;
- distinguish between basic characteristics of permanent and variable institutes;
- analyse the measning of individual legal norm and its scope;
- compare national maritime and general transport legal solutions with foreign and supranational solutions;
- analyse the influence of international law in the domain of maritime and general transport law on national legislation;
- examine the quality of maritime environment ensured through different institutes of maritime law;
- distinguish between contractual and non-contractual liability;
- distinguish between voluntary and compulsory liability insurance;
- compare the position of the third party with and without right to file complaint.
Synthesis
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- construct connection between legal norms that regulate maritime and general transport law with economic context in which international trade is conducted;
- distribute methodology of rights and obligations of parties in transport and insurance agreements according to individual categories of maritime and general transport law;
- conclude about the application of norms in individual branches of maritime and general transport law depending on the facts of thecase;
- formulate conceptualisation of the level of harmonisation of national legal orders in the domain of maritime and general transport law;
- formulate basic challenges that maritime and general transport law are faced with;
- form a logical structure of maritime and general transport law as a whole.
Evaluation
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- examine the level of protection of rights of users of transport services in the national legislation in comparison with international law;
- compare legal norms related to relations that occur in individual branches of maritime and general transport law;
- evaluate the level of legal regulation of rights and obligations of parties with regard to the right of parties to independently regulate their relation;
- assess the level of legal harmonisation of the national legislation with the recent legal achievements in international law;
- judge the quality of legislative changes and action in practice;
- evaluate relevant circumstances of each individual case and select the best solution in a concrete legal case that occurs in practice;
- compare similarities and differences between individual institutes of maritime and general transport law and conclude about justification and purpose of their differentiation.
