This course is delivered to students from 3 programmes, namely, Law Programme (15 credits); Logistics and Transport Management Programme (7.5 credits with course code HRS526); and Maritime Management Programme @ Chalmers (7.5 credits with course code SJO810). 

This is a full time course that runs from 20 January to 26 March 2025 for the students from the Law Programme. For students from the Logistics and Transport Management Programme and the Maritime Management Programme, the course runs from 20 Jan and 20 Feb 2025.

Course Syllabus HRS521

Course Syllabus HRS526

Schedule

Literature/Reading list for spring 2025 is available 8 weeks before the course start. Search for it at Find syllabus and reading listLinks to an external site.

Course content description:

Are you generally interested in commercial law? Do you have an interest in trade, transport, digitalisation and sustainability? Would you like to negotiate a contract with practical inputs from industry experts? Then "Shipping Law, Digitalisation and Sustainability" could be a course for you to consider during the spring semester. Also, this is the third course within the field of maritime law that the Department of Law has invested in.

The course deals with the legal framework of international trade and transport with particular focus on sea carriage, as a substantial portion of international trade is transported by sea. The course covers essential areas of commercial shipping and trade law which comprise both international convention regimes and domestic laws. Five main subject areas covered under the course are – bills of lading and charterparties, other contracts of carriage including multimodal transport, law of marine insurance, law of international sale of goods, and trade finance law. Emerging legal issues related to digitalisation and sustainability concerns connected to commercial shipping and trade are dealt in the course in contextual detail.

Contacts

• Course Coordinator: main contact for course related matters, Abhinayan Basu Bal abhinayan.basu@law.gu.se 
• Student counsellor: studievagledning@law.gu.se
• Education administrator: exam related matters such as registration for exam and results, (Will be updated)
• Student Representatives: Can be found on the LOG programme page on the Student Portal.