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Discussion 3: Understanding Maritime Law

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• Legal Information Institute’s website on
  
  U.S.C. code - Carriage of Goods by Sea
  


• ITLOS webpage on theInternational Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
  


• the case
  J. Gerber & Co. v. S.S. Sabine Howaldt
  on pages 165-166


• 
  Force Majeure - Clauses in Leases
  by the American Bar Association

Answer the following questions:

1) The
J. Gerber
case was about damage of steel being shipped from what country to the United States? Why does the Court of Appeals find that the ship owner is not responsible for the damage to the steel?

2) Which section of Chapter 28 of the US Code deals with ‘Rights and Immunities of Carrier and Ship’?
In your words, what is the definition of ‘carrier’ under Chapter 28 of the United States Code? (quoted definitions will earn 0 points)

3) The President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea is from what country? In your words, explain the function ofTribunal for the Law of the Sea.

4) In American jurisprudence Force Majeure includes not just acts of God but what else?

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