The purpose of the course is to provide students with basic knowledge on the development of the international law of the sea along with its sources, basic principles and the settlement of disputes. In addition, the course aims to ensure the students to have the ability to make assesments and apply their knowledge on specific cases.
Prerequisite(s)
NONE
Corequisite(s)
NONE-
Special Requisite(s)
Students are required to prepare assignment
Instructor(s)
Professor Hasan Köni
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
Office Hour(s)
Teaching Methods and Techniques
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lecture, discussion, case study, projects and demonstration.
Principle Sources
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R.R. Churchill & A.V.Lowe, The Law of the Sea, The Law of the Sea, Third Edition, Juris Publishing, 1999.ISBN: 978-1-57823-030-3
Donald R Rothwell & Tim Stephens, The International Law of the Sea, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84113-257-0
Other Sources
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Aydoğan Özman, Deniz Hukuku I,Turhan yay., Ankara, 2006, ISBN/Ref: 9756194529
Hüseyin Pazarcı, Uluslararası Hukuk Dersleri, Cilt II, Turhan Yay., Ankara, 2005.
Derya Aydın Okur, Deniz Hukukunda Liman Devleti Yetkisi ve Denetimi, Oniki Levha Yay., İstanbul 2009
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
The scope and development of international law of the sea
2. Week
Sources of the law of the sea, its relationship with other branches of law, basic concepts of the law of the sea
3. Week
Definition of ship/vessel, types of ship, legal regimes of commercial ships and warships
4. Week
Nationality and registration of ships
5. Week
The legal regime of internal waters and the legal regime of Turkish internal waters
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
6. Week
The legal regime of islands, the concept of territorial sea, breadth and delimitation of territorial sea, legal regime of territorial sea and innocent passage.
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
7. Week
The legal regime of Turkish territorial sea, the Eagean dispute
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
8. Week
The legal regimes of national and international straits, differences between innocent passage and transit passage, Montreux Convention and the legal regime of Turkish Straits.
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
9. Week
The legal regime of contiguous zone, the legal regime of contnental shelf, delimitation of continental shelf, Eagean dispute.
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
10. Week
The legal regime of exclusive economic zone
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
11. Week
The legal regime of the high seas
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
12. Week
International standars of vessels, International Maritime Organisation and its activities.
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
13. Week
Marine pollution and its sources, international regulations regarding the protection of marine environment
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
14. Week
Settlement of disputes in the law of the sea
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
15. Week
Final Exams Week
16. Week
Final Exams Week
17. Week
Final Exams Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
1
30
Final Exam
1
70
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Have the ability to reach and evaluate information sources;
PO-2
Have the ability to use, compare, interpret, deduce from and apply scientific data;
PO-3
Have historical knowledge enabling to interpret modern law achievements;
PO-4
Have the ability to use Turkish efficiently verbally and in written;
PO-5
Have the ability to follow up professional literature at least in a foreign language;
PO-6
Have acquired professional and ethical sense of responsibility;
PO-7
Have the ability to use vocational information technologies efficiently for solution of legal problems;
PO-8
Have the ability to apply information acquired to solution of a concrete case;
PO-9
Have full knowledge of legal rules which regulate relationship among natural legal persons and have the ability to interpret such rules;
PO-10
Have full knowledge of legal rules which regulate relationship between individual and state and have the ability to interpret such rules;
PO-11
Have the ability to practice the profession as a lawyer who adopts universal principles of law;
PO-12
Have full knowledge of basic concepts and rules regarding structure and relationship manners of international community; have the ability to interpret and discuss about the foregoing;
PO-13
Have basic knowledge enabling to evaluate international community’s common issues and their possible solutions;
PO-14
Have knowledge enabling to apply to human rights bodies having a supranational judicial quality and to follow up the process;
PO-15
Have knowledge on European Union Acquis Communautaire and operation of its institutions;
PO-16
Have a world view enabling to question, criticize and develop law in direction with needs of humanity;
PO-17
Have knowledge on historical development process of jurisprudence and judicial systems;
PO-18
Have the ability to solve actual legal problems within the frame of contemporary legal approaches;
PO-19
Be at the level of understanding and knowledge which reflects all qualities in the best way required by the profession on national and international scale;
PO-20
Have full knowledge of legal arrangements and practices regarding economic and financial mechanisms;
PO-21
Have knowledge on historical development of rights of individuals and societies and on basic texts adopted during the process;
PO-22
Have the ability to express himself individually and before a group;
PO-23
Have the ability to use, compare, interpret, deduce from and apply scientific data;
PO-24
Have the ability to follow up regulations and legal quests in order to meet new needs appeared within the frame of relationships between individuals;
PO-25
Have the ability to cooperate by implementing activities during courses, hypothetical law suits and judicial studies and other vocational and academic visits;
PO-26
Have the ability to understand and handle national and international dimensions of law, jurisprudence and practices by means of follow up;
PO-27
Have knowledge of international judicial bodies and their ways of operation.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
To have knowledge on the scope and development of international law of the sea.
LO-2
To have knowledge on the customary law rules, conventions, (particularly 1958 Geneva Conventions and 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea), basic concepts and principles of the law of the sea and to have the ability to make assessments
LO-3
To have knowledge and ability to make assessments regarding the responsibility for violations of the law of the sea
LO-4
To have knowledge on the means of settlement of disputes in international law of the sea
LO-5
To have knowledge on the roles of national and international institutions regarding maritime industry
