Lecturer in Law

Deputy Director of Taught Masters Degrees

Recent Publications

Articles and Book Chapters

‘A New International Regime for Carriage of Goods by Sea: Contemporary, Certain, Inclusive, and Efficient, or Just Another One for the Shelves?" 30 Berkeley Journal of International Law (2012)  (with Professor B. Soyer)

"Himalaya Clauses and the Rotterdam Rules"17 Journal of International Maritime Law 20-40 (2011).

“The Carrier’s Duties under the Rotterdam Rules: Better the Devil You Know?" 55 Tulane Maritime Law Journal 1-44 (2010).

The obligations of carriers to provide seaworthy ships and exercise care published as Chapter 4 in A New Convention for the Carriage of Goods by Sea-The Rotterdam Rules (2009, Lawtext) 89-110.

"The Loading Obligations of Voyage Charterers" published as Chapter 4 in The Evolving Law and Practice of Voyage Charterparties (2009, Informa) 59-77.

"The statutory Himalaya-type protection under the Rotterdam Rules-Capable of filling the gaps?" [2009] Journal of Business Law 403-421.
"The fundamental duties of the carrier under the Rotterdam Rules" 14 Journal of International Maritime Law  512-523 (2008).

"The allocation of cargo claims as between owners and charterers in NYPE charterparties" published as Chapter 13 in Legal Issues Relating to Time Charterparties, (2008, Informa), pp. 225-246.

"The effect of the FIOS clause of NYPE 1946 charterparties on owners'duty to provide a seaworthy vessel" 13 Journal of International Maritime Law 29-41 (2007).

"Conflicting Laws in "Wet" Multimodal Transport: The UNCITRAL Draft Convention on Carriage of Goods [Wholly or Partly] [by Sea]" 37Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 521-544 (2006).

"The UNCITRAL Draft Instrument on the Carriage of Goods [wholly or partly] [by sea]: Multimodal at Last or Still All at Sea?" [2005] Journal of Business Law 647-658.

"The Quasi-Deviation Doctrine" 35 Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 45-78 (2004).

"The Effect of Unseaworthiness on the Burden of Proof under the Fire Statute and COGSA Fire Defense" Il Diritto Marittimo 1072-81 (2003).

Forthcoming

 The Legal Context of International Multimodal Transport: From the UN Multimodal Transport Convention 1980 to the Rotterdam Rules 2009 and beyond, (Routeledge 2012).

Papers

“Himalaya Clauses – The Impact of the Rotterdam Rules" presented at the International Colloquium on the Rotterdam Rules, organized by the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, on 9-10 September 2009 and also at the 6th European Colloquium on Maritime Law Research - The Legal, Economic, Environmental, Insurance and Commercial implications of the Rotterdam Rules, organised by Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law in collaboration with the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law (University of Oslo, Norway) on 27-28 May 2010.

" 'Wet multimodal transport' under the Rotterdam Rules: The way forward?"  presented at the 3rd Arab Conference for Commercial and Maritime Law, ACCML'09 on the Rotterdam Rules 2009: Uniformity v. Diversity for the Law of Carriage of Goods by Sea – A Euro-Arab Perspective, held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, in Alexandria, Egypt on April 18-19, 2009.

"The Loading Obligations of Voyage Charterers" paper presented at the International Colloquium on Voyage Charterparties, organised by the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, on 11-12 September 2008.

"Cargo Claims and the Inter-Club Agreement" paper submitted to the International Colloquium on Time Charterparties, organised by the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, on 12-13 July 2007.

"New Technologies and Carriage of Passengers" paper presented at the Colloquium on New Technologies and Maritime Law, organised by the Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport-Aegean University, Greece on 11-12 May 2007.

"Conflicting Laws in the International Multimodal Carriage of Goods" paper presented at the International Conference on Private International Law held in Aberdeen on 29- 30 March 2005.

"The UNCITRAL Draft Instrument on the Carriage of Goods [wholly or partly] [by sea]: Is it the Panacea to the Current Maritime Transport Needs?" paper presented at MARTECH 2004 held in Singapore on 21-23 September 2004.

"The UNCITRAL Draft Instrument on the Carriage of Goods [wholly or partly] [by sea]: Multimodal at Last or Still All at Sea?," paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars held in Sheffield on 13-14 September 2004.

Relevant Activities

Attorney at Law (Greece)

Member of the British Maritime Law Association

Member of the Society of Legal Scholars (Deputy Convenor for the Maritime Law Section)

PhD Supervision

"I would welcome proposals or enquiries regarding research on carriage of goods by sea and private international law."

Current Research Students

Rui Zheng

Sebastian Meyer