According to the cooperation agreement between DMU and HKU, from February 1 to April 7, Professor Chu Beiping, Professor Guo Ping and Professor Han Lixin gave lectures on Shipping Law of China at the Faculty of Law of Hong Kong University.
Professor Guo Pingsystematically taught the background, the attitudes of various stakeholders home and abroad, the innovative changes and major systems of the "UN Convention on the Contracts of International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea" (Rotterdam Rules). Her lectures were focused on comparing the China's Maritime Code, the Hague Rules, the Visby Rules, the Hamburg Rules and the Rotterdam Rules and their causes, and combined with the practice of marine trade and marine judicial practice at home and abroad to explain the theoretical development of the relevant legal system. In addition, professor gave lectures on the subject of modifying maritime law progressed by the Ministry of Communications and Transport, the main legal problems in the development of cruise tourism in China and the complicated legal problems in voyage chartering regarding M/V “Tongcheng”.
(Professor Guo Ping gave lectures)
Professor Chu Beiping lectured on collision, towage and marine insurance contract. Professor Han Lixin gave detailed lectures on general average, limitation of liability for maritime claims, limitation of maritime action and settlement of maritime disputes
The course started since the year of 2014, which attracted not onlyundergraduates, postgraduate students to attend, but also practitioners of Hong Kong shipping industry. Every February to April, around 30-40 Hong Kong students will enrol in this class and three of DMU law professors will fly to HKU bringing about the latest and most authoritative information of maritime law in China. It plays an important role in studying and understanding the legal systems of Hong Kong and the mainland China in the construction of the Belt and Road.
