Legal Regulation of International Transport of Goods, Passengers and Baggage

Student: Pavlov Alexandr

Educational Programme: Private International Law (Master)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2016

This master dissertation is aimed at the scientific analysis of international transport institute including the comparative analysis of the main international legal documents. The master dissertation consists of an introduction, four chapters, ten paragraphs, eight sections, conclusion and a bibliography. Chapter I elaborates the nature of auto transportation: paragraph 1 is devoted to the goods transportation; paragraph 2–the passenger shipping. Chapter II covers the analysis of evolution of the legal framework of carriage via railway: paragraph 1 is devoted to the goods transportation; paragraph 2–the passenger shipping. Chapter III examines the acts of air law. Paragraph 1 studies the acts of Warsaw system. Paragraph 2 contains the analysis of the provisions of the Montreal Convention 1999. Paragraph 3 elaborates the air freedoms, contained in the Chicago Convention 1944. Chapter IV covers the sources of maritime law. Paragraph 1 compares line and freight shipping. Paragraph 2 is devoted to the research of international acts in goods carriage: section 2.1 covers Hague Rules; section 2.3-Visby Rules; section 2.3-Hague-Visby Rules; section 2.4-Hamburg Rules; section 2.5-Rotterdam Rules. Paragraph 3 covers the legal framework of passengers shipping: section 3.1-the Brussels Convention 1961; section 3.2-International Convention 1967; section 3.3-Athens Convention 1974. Based on this research the following conclusions were made: firstly, legal regulation of international carriage is presented by a large number of international acts; secondly, despite of unification of substantive legal rules, there is no uniform approach in application of this institute; thirdly, the procedure of executing the contract of the international transportation is regulated by conflict law that generates ambiguity of its interpretation; fourthly, despite of the above problems, the level of development of legal regulation of considered institute strikes with the intensity and branching.

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