The Place of the International Transport Law in the International Law System

Abstract

There are many different opinions about place of the international transport law in a system of branches of the law. Various approaches exist. Some authors consider the international transport law as branch of the international private law, others as a sub branch of the international commercial law. There are concepts of reference of the international transport law in a system of the international administrative law. The international transport law is represented as sub branch the international economic law, as the complex branch uniting in of norm of a various branch accessory, as interdisciplinary institute. The question on a branch accessory has both theoretical and practical value as the branch accessory specifies in applicability of principles, allows understanding the basic beginnings of construction and essence of concrete rules of law.
For the analysis of a branch accessory of norms, revealing of a place of certain group of norms in legal system have been used certain criteria: a subject of legal regulation, methods of legal regulation, autonomy of norms, institutional mechanism, special principles, sources, feature of responsibility. Following the results of the analysis made a conclusion that at the present stage of development international transport law is the sub branch of international economic law. It regulates the interstate relations developing in the course of realization of the international transportation activity.