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On 16th November, our Centre for Commercial Law is delighted to host Prof Stephen Girvin (Centre for Maritime Law, National University of Singapore) for his seminar on 'Carbon-free Shipping and Shipping Carbon - Contracts in Context'.
Abstract
Shipping accounts for more than 80 (90?)% of international trade. Although by far the most energy-efficient mode of large-scale transport, shipping is responsible for around 3% of global GHG emissions. However, the ‘crisis of climate emergency’ has forced a reconfiguration of the response to shipping carbon. This seminar considers three issues: (i) steps to mitigate shipping carbon; (ii) measures announced by the IMO (MARPOL, Annex VI) and within the EU (the ‘Fit for 55’ package); (ii) the contractual effect of such changes, e.g. the Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) and Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII), in shipping (particularly charterparty) contracts.
Bio
Professor Stephen Girvin FRSA AFNI is a tenured full Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and MPA Professor of Maritime Law. He was appointed as Director of the Centre for Maritime Law (CML) at NUS in 2015, following five years as Vice Dean (Research). Under his leadership, CML has achieved recognition as a leading centre for the study of maritime law in Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region.
Stephen previously taught at Aberdeen, Nottingham, and Birmingham Universities. He has been a Visiting Professor at Cape Town, Sydney, Queensland, FGV São Paolo, Zhejiang University, the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, and the University of Cagliari.
Stephen is the author of Carriage of Goods by Sea 3rd edn (Oxford, 2022), and a co-author of Marsden’s Collisions at Sea 14th edn (Sweet & Maxwell, 2016), and Carver on Charterparties 2nd edn (Sweet & Maxwell, 2021). He is co-editor (with Vibe Ulfbeck), author and co-author of Maritime Organisation, Management and Liability: A Legal Analysis of New Challenges in the Maritime Industry (Hart Publishing 2021). He is the general editor of the Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of Maritime and Oceans Law (due in 2025). Earlier, he was a contributor to The Rotterdam Rules in the Asia-Pacific Region (Shojihomu, 2014), A New Convention for the Carriage of Goods by Sea: The Rotterdam Rules (Lawtext, 2009), and Liability Regimes in Contemporary Maritime Law (Informa, 2007). He was a member of the Editorial Committee of the International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook, part of Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly (Informa), for almost twenty years. He remains as Singapore correspondent for the same journal and is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of International Maritime Law (Lawtext) and the Transnational Commercial Law Review (Queen Mary, University of London).
Stephen regularly speaks at international conferences, in recent years in Beijing, Dalian, Hong Kong, Panama, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, and Tokyo, and in Aberdeen, Bergen, Cagliari, Copenhagen, Hamburg, London, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Stockholm. He is a member of the Singapore Maritime Law Association and the British Maritime Law Association, and a Supporting Member of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association.
- Speaker
- Professor Stephen Girvin FRSA AFNI
- Hosted by
- Centre for Commercial Law
- Venue
- Centre for Commercial Law
- Contact
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Dr Qiang (John) Cai
