Transportation Law

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Teachers will give oral classes about the subjects. Students will be invited to discuss the subject. Students must prepare in advance short speeches about one particular theme. The teacher will previously give the students court decisions, foreign and Portuguese laws and some problems to be studied

Learning Outcomes

Purposes:

a) Analysis of Transport Law problems that where not studied during 1st. Cycle;

b) Make the Transport Law and Transport Essential Facilities Law easy to understand;

c) Analysis of usual and unusual cases;

 

Skills to achieve:

a) Knowledge about up-to-date Transport Law problems (lost luggages, carriage of goods by sea, charter flights, overbooking, airport regulation, urban transport regulation, sea highways), allowing students to solve real life cases;

b) Wide vision about subjects that will allow students to prepare a Master Thesis concerning matters which are not often studied or not studied at all,

c) stimulating rigorous investigation and analysis;

d) Critical view about how Portuguese Transport Law and Transport Essential Facilities Law deals with some problems, suggesting alternative ways

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1st. SEMESTER

LAW OF TRANSPORTS

Transports organization principles and transport essential facilities law

Chapter I

Transports organization

The strategic plan for transport

The organization of road transport for passengers and goods at international, european and national levels

The organization of railway transport for passengers and goods at european and national levels

The organization of air transport

The organization of shipping

Chapter II

Administrative organization of urban transport

The convergence of transport policy, energy policy, economic policy and environmental policy

Urban transport regulation

The importance of metropolitan areas and transport planning

The financing of urban transport and the fundamental right to mobility as a social right

Chapter III

Transport infrastructure management

The legal infrastructure of transport

Airports operation

Ports management

The management of railway infrastructure

Funding and maintenance of the highway

2ND. SEMESTER

LAW OF TRANSPORTS – THE TRANSPORT CONTRACT

Chapter I

Transport contract

Transport contract

The Law

Classes of transports

Connected contracts

Rules of conflicts

Dispute resolution

Chapter II

Transport by land

A)

Passengers

By road

By Railroad

B)

Carriage of goods

By road (internal)

By road (international)

By railroad

Chapter III

Maritime transport

C) Passengers

International Conventions

Portuguese Laws

Cruises

D) Carriage of goods

The contract

Documents

Related contracts

The Ship

Chapter IV

Air Transport

A)

Introduction

Portuguese Law

European Union Law

International Conventions

B)

Passengers

General view

Documents

Regulation n.º 199/2002

Luggage

Charter Flights

Overbooking

Organized trips

C)

Goods

Documents

Lost and damaged goods

Assessment Methods

Continuous
Oral presentation of a written work each semester. That presentation will take place in one of the last classes (the subject will be chosen after talking with the teacher): 100.0%

Bibliography

Almeida, Ferreira, O contrato de transporte no Código Civil, RT, 87, p. 147

Bastos, Nuno M. Castello-Branco, Direito dos Transportes, Almedina, Coimbra, 2004

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Basedow, Jürgen (org.), Münchener Kommentar zum HGB, Transportrecht, 1997, actualizado em 2000.

Canaris, Claus Wilhelm, Handelsrecht, 24. Auf., 2006

Fortes Martín, Antonio, La ordenación y el control administrativo del tráfico aéreo, Marcial Pons, Madrid, 2012

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