القانون الواجب التطبيق على المنازعات البحرية

Abstract EN

Applicable law on maritime disputes is considered important in legal studies; it enables court to determine legal rules that govern subject of disputes and the law that governs the procedures.

it has been established in maritime field, that arbitration court applies the law explicitly specified by parties to the contractual relationship in arbitration agreement or by searching for implicit will of parties.

if it is not specified by parties, arbitration panel assumes freedom to determine this law, which may be a national or international, according to what you see fit, especially application of provisions of unified international maritime treaties to many of rules that must be observed in all maritime fields between different countries, today they constitute a source of international maritime law that contributes to finding solutions to problems usually raised by the issue of determining applicable law in other commercial fields.