Study the legal frameworks behind international shipping, trade and transport

• Module 1 - Function, Scope and Context of Maritime Law
• Module 2 - Carriage of Goods by Sea, Charterparties, Bills of Lading - Applicable Instruments and Standard Contracts
• Module 3 - Marine Insurance and International Contracts of Sale
• Module 4 - Admiralty Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Maritime Claims
• Module 5 - Salvage, General Average, Towage, Ports and Pilotage, Collisions and Limitation of Liability
• Module 6 - Dispute Resolution, Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Techniques including Commercial Mediation

• The interactions of national legal systems in this field and the importance of English law
• The contractual frameworks with existing regulations and selective leading case law
• The correlations between marine insurance and other related areas e.g. credit system and international contracts of sale
• The solutions adopted by foreign jurisdictions and grasp the problem of competing jurisdictions and conflicts of laws
• The contribution of selected classic authorities to the legal treatment of the above-mentioned concepts
• The legal framework governing arbitration and alternative dispute resolution with the ways of access to courts

The Maritime Law and Shipping Contracts Certificate course is broken down into manageable modules, designed to accelerate your learning process through diverse learning activities:

• Work through your instructional material online
• Interact with your peers and learning facilitators through the online forum to discuss subject related issues and to network with your fellow learners
• Investigate relevant, real-world case studies
• Apply what you learn each week to ongoing project submissions

You can now have a digital version of your Lloyd’s Maritime Academy Certification!

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