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Sarah Derrington

Professor of Law Director, Marine and Shipping Law Unit   Office: 322 GPN3 building, St Lucia campus Phone: +61 7 33653320 Fax: +61 7 33654788 Email: sderrington@bel.uq.edu.au Consultation: By appointment with Personal Assistant by email or Ph: +61 7 3346 9033

 Biography

Prior to her secondment as Director of Studies, Professor Derrington taught maritime law at undergraduate and post-graduate level and equity and commercial law at the University of Queensland. She was a visiting lecturer to the University of Nottingham from 2002 to 2006 where she taught International Carriage of Goods by Sea in the LLM programme. More recently she has been a Visiting Professor to the University of Aix-Marseilles, France. She has published in various journals including the Law Quarterly Review, Modern Law Review, Lloyd's Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly, Insurance Law Journal, and Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce, and has written a chapter in The Modern Law of Marine Insurance, Vol 2 by D. Rhidian Thomas (LLP, 2002). In conjunction with James M Turner of the English Bar, she has authored The Law and Practice of Admiralty Matters (OUP, 2007).

She is the Australian Vice-President of the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand (MLAANZ) and has represented Australia and New Zealand in the CMI's work on uniform rules for the carriage of goods by sea and in relation to reform of the law of marine insurance. She is a member of the Admiralty Rules Committee (Cwlth).

Dr Derrington continues to practise at the private Bar, exclusively in shipping law.

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