The purpose of the course is to provide students with basic knowledge on: the development of international rules and standards regarding shipping; structure and activities of International Maritime Organisation (IMO), importance of the IMO in shipping world; international regulations regarding such as protection of the marine environment, maritime safety, maritime security, liability and compensation. In addition, the lesson aims to ensure the students to have the ability to make assesments and apply their knowledge on specific cases.
The development of international rules and regulations regarding shipping
Oral presentation
2. Week
General framework of international conventions regarding shipping; some basic concepts
Oral presentationt
3. Week
1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS); structure and activities of IMO
Oral presentation
4. Week
International conventions concerning the protection of the marine environment and prevention of the marine pollution: “International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships” (MARPOL)
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
5. Week
International conventions concerning the protection of the marine environment and prevention of the marine pollution: “International Convention relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties”, “Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter”, “International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Co-operation”
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
6. Week
International conventions concerning the protection of the marine environment and prevention of the marine pollution: “International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships”
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
7. Week
International conventions concerning the protection of the marine environment and prevention of the marine pollution: other conventions
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
8. Week
International conventions on ensuring maritime safety and security: “International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS)”
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
9. Week
International conventions on ensuring maritime safety and security: “Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREG)”
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
10. Week
International conventions on ensuring maritime safety and security: “International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers ( STCW )”
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
11. Week
International conventions on ensuring maritime safety and security: “Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (SUA)”
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
12. Week
International conventions on ensuring maritime safety and security: other conventions
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
13. Week
International conventions on liability and compensation
Oral presentation, Case study, Project
14. Week
International conventions on liability and compensation (continued)
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 legal framework of international maritime conventions
LO-2
To have knowledge on the structure and activities of the IMO
LO-3
To have knowledge on the enforcement and implementation of international maritime conventions and inspection of the standards (flag state control, coastal state control and port state control)
LO-4
To have knowledge and ability to make assessments regarding the international conventions concerning the protection of the marine environment.
LO-5
To have knowledge and ability to make assessments regarding the international conventions on maritime safety, maritime security, liability, compensation and other subjects.
LO-6
To have knowledge on the activities of national and international institutions in shipping industry
