Legal custom in internationak maritime law

1.

Shevchenko K. Oleg
First year master's student

2.

International Maritime Law
and legal customs
International Maritime Law is large
and complex.
It has a lot of norms of behavior.
But most legal norms are legal
customs.
These customs need to be studied.

3.

Legal custom I
But it is impossible to write
immediately about the
legal custom in
international Maritime law.
First I must learn what a
«Legal custom» is.
I write about this in my
term paper.

4.

Legal custom II
Legal custom is the source of
law.
Legal custom is the oldest
source of law.
Legal custom is the practice of
applying whatever the rule.

5.

International Maritime
custom today
The international Maritime Tribunal resolves many
issues based on legal custom.
The problem is that customs are different.

6.

Different types of Maritime
customs
Customs exist:
Romanesque,
Anglo-Saxon, Chinese, USSR-Russian

7.

The main question of
master's work
What customs should the court
use?
I will answer these questions in
my thesis in two years.