Wilful Misconduct in International Transport Law
The main rationale of the conventions on international transport law is to limit the liability of the carrier. However, an aspect common to these conventions is that in cases of "wilful misconduct" the carrier is liable without any financial limitation. "
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Hamburg Studies on Maritime Affairs Volume 22 Edited by Jürgen Basedow Peter Ehlers Hartmut Graßl Florian Jeßberger Lars Kaleschke Hans-Joachim Koch Robert Koch Doris König Rainer Lagoni Gerhard Lammel Ulrich Magnus Peter Mankowski Stefan Oeter Marian Paschke Thomas Pohlmann Uwe Schneider Jürgen Sündermann Rüdiger Wolfrum Wilfried Zahel
Duygu Damar
Wilful Misconduct in International Transport Law
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Dr. Duygu Damar Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht Mittelweg 187 20148 Hamburg Germany [email protected] [email protected]
Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde an der Fakultät für Rechtwissenschaft der Universität Hamburg Vorgelegt von: Duygu Damar Erstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Basedow, LL.M. (Harvard) Zweitgutachter: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Magnus Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 26. Januar 2011 ISSN 1614-2462 e-ISSN 1867-9587 ISBN 978-3-642-21508-7 e-ISBN 978-3-642-21509-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-21509-4 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011933106 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: WMXDesign GmbH, Heidelberg Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
To my family
Preface
For the preparatory work on the new Turkish Commercial Code of 2011, the question of how to translate the common law legal term “wilful misconduct” into Turkish should have been clarified. Dr. iur. F. Kerim Atamer, who was the member of the Commission in charge of the preparation of the Draft of the Code, attracted my attention to the problem, thus providing the starting point of this work. Upon having been accepted as a scholar at the International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs (IMPRS), I conducted this study under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Basedow, LL.M. (Harvard), Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. I am most grateful for his support, encouragement and detailed advice, without which this work would not have been completed. I would also like to thank Prof. Dr. Ulrich Magnus, Director of the Seminar o
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