Interpreting Maritime Conventions and Shipping Contracts with European Soft Law Instruments.

Interpréter les conventions et contrats maritimes à l'aide des instruments européens de soft law (PEDC).

Cécile Legros (1, 2)

1 IRIHS - Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire Homme et Société
2 CUREJ - Centre Universitaire Rouennais d'Études Juridiques

For some years now, European institutions have launched several working groups focused on the development of a harmonized European contract law (PECL, DCFR, Proposal for a 'Regulation on a Common European Sales Law (CESL)… In the field of shipping law, the question arising is the following: are they of any use for operators dealing with shipping law? This paper focuses on one aspect that is interpretation of legal sources or of contracts exploring the potential relevancy of these instruments for shipping law.

Keywords: law interpretation; Transport law; European law; soft law

Keywords: droit des transports; droit de l'Union européenne; Interprétation de la loi; interprétation d'un contrat

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Law

Cécile Legros. Interpreting Maritime Conventions and Shipping Contracts with European Soft Law Instruments.. European Journal of Commercial Contract Law - EJCCL, 2015, n°1/2- 2015, p. 32. ⟨hal-01654039⟩