A Study On Chinese Maritime Tort Law System

How to handle torts among maritime economic activities is an important issue, which is crucial to the continuous, harmonious and healthy development of maritime economy. And maritime tort law is the legal basis of regulating the maritime torts. But there is no systematic study on maritime tort law yet. Therefore this thesis focuses on defining maritime tort law and the systematic study of it. The first part of this thesis expounds the definition of maritime tort law and defines the maritime tort law system from the angle of the object and mode of its regulating. In view of the independence of maritime tort law it is suitable to be studied as an independent law system. The second demonstrates the importance of establishing the maritime tort law system. The third demonstrates the jurisprudence and methodology basis of establishing the maritime tort law system, mainly the system theory, type theory and value basis. The fourth establishes the maritime tort law system according to principles of meeting requirements of practice, forecasting, referring to establishing standards of tort law system and opening.It is believed that the maritime tort law system is constituted of four parts. They are subjects, principles of liability, damage compensation and compensation mechanism. And the maritime torts are divided into three types.