Maritime law is a fascinating blend of commercial law and environmental law, of private law and public law, of national law and international law. Characters include salvors and scuttlers, pirates and pilots, treasure hunters and tug owners. Maritime law unfolds against the most dramatic of backdrops, such as war and invasion, storms and pollution disasters. It addresses issues as diverse as the liability of carriers of goods to the exploitation of fish stocks, the legal response to stowaways to the insurance response to smuggling.
Course Outline
The LLM Maritime Law is headed by Professors Howard Bennett and Sarah Dromgoole. Howard Bennett holds the Hind Chair in Commercial Law. Interested in international trade and maritime law generally, he is an internationally renowned expert on marine insurance. He has published extensively, is the author of the prize-winning The Law of Marine Insurance (awarded the British Insurance Law Association annual book prize for 2007), and is joining the team of contributing editors to the authoritative Benjamin’s Sale of Goods with responsibility for international trade finance.
Sarah Dromgoole, Professor of Maritime Law, is one of the world's leading experts on the law relating to shipwrecks, a topic that has come into sharp focus in recent years as a result of the opening up of the oceans by advances in deepwater technology. She has published extensively on this subject, is regularly consulted by governments and other organisations, and is much in demand to give conference papers and seminars. Sarah also has many years of teaching experience in the international trade law field.
Students on the LLM Maritime Law at the University of Nottingham benefit not only from the expertise of all the Nottingham academics who contribute to the programme, all of whom are actively engaged in high quality research, but also from the insights provided by visiting speakers.
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