 Professor Sarah Derrington
Sarah Derrington teaches maritime law at undergraduate and post-graduate level. 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 and the University of Nantes in France. She has published in various journals including the Law Quarterly Review, Modern Law Review, Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly, the Insurance Law Journal, and the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 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).
Professor Derrington continues to practise at the private Bar, exclusively in shipping law.
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 D r Vincent P. Cogliati-Bantz
Vincent P. Cogliati-Bantz joined the School of Law in March 2005. He received his legal education in the United States, Switzerland, France and Ireland. His professional experience includes an assistant Professorship at the University of Miami School of Law and a Robert Schuman scholarship at the European Parliament in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. Vincent Cogliati-Bantz has authored or co-authored various works on the Law of the Sea and Public International Law. He lectures on the Law of the Sea, International Organizations, European Union Law and Comparative Law. In November 2008, he defended his Ph.D. thesis summa cum laude at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva before a prestigious jury composed of Professor Lucius Caflisch (member of the UN’s International Law Commission, former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights and former Swiss delegate to the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea), Professor Philippe Gautier (Registrar of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea) and Professor Marcelo Kohen of the Graduate Institute of International Studies. His thesis examines whether international organizations have the right to register vessels, aircraft and spacecraft and, if so, under what conditions. When the right exists, the thesis analyses the regime applicable to various means of transportation. He is now co-writing a book on the legal regime of straits with His Excellency Judge Hugo Caminos of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, one of the most prominent figures in the contemporary law of the sea.
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 Dr Craig Forrest
Before joining the Law School in 2001, Dr Craig Forrest spent two years as a naval officer in the South African Navy, worked as a research grants assistant at Kings College, London and lectured at the Universities of Wolverhampton, Teesside and Holborn College, London. His current research interest is in International Law, particularly the Law of the Sea, Maritime Law and Cultural Heritage Law, and he was recently a member of the South African delegation to the UNESCO meeting of experts to draft an international convention on the protection of underwater cultural heritage. Craig has published in Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, Marine Policy, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Ocean Development and International Law and the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce.
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 Professor Edgar Gold AM CM QC
Professor Gold had a first career at sea and was Master of a number of ships. He then studied law and has a BA and LLB from Dalhousie University, Canada and a PhD in maritime transport from Wales University. He was an academic at Dalhousie for many years, now being an Emeritus Professor, as well as being in practice. He is a Past President of the Canadian Maritime Law Association, a Titulary Member of the Comité Maritime International, a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Science, a Member of the Chartered Institute of Transport, a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the Nautical Institute, and numerous other associations. Dr Gold is the Canadian Member of the Board of Governors and Visiting Professor at the World Maritime University, Malmö, Sweden, as well as at the International Maritime Law Institute, Malta. He is an Adjunct Professor at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland and lives much of the year in Brisbane.
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 Dr Michael White QC
Dr Michael White is an Adjunct Professor within the TC Beirne School of Law and former Executive Director of the Marine and Shipping Law Unit, a Master Mariner and a Queen's Counsel. He had a first career in the Australian Navy before attending the University of Queensland where he graduated Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws. He practised full-time as a barrister at the Queensland Bar from 1974 until 1999 and was made Queen's Counsel in 1988. He is also admitted to practice in PNG and the Solomon Islands. He was awarded a PhD by Bond University for a thesis entitled "Marine Pollution Laws of the Austrasian Region". This thesis was was later published in book form, with some amendments, by the Federation Press in 1994. Dr White is the editor of Australian Maritime Law, 2nd ed. (Federation Press, 2000) and has written widely in maritime law related areas.
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MASLU is able to call on other members of the T C Beirne School of Law with expertise in areas such as International Trade Law, International Law, Constitutional Law, Torts Law, Electronic Commerce and Dispute Resolution, and other members of the BEL Faculty and other UQ Faculties. It regularly calls on numerous Guest Lecturers from the marine industry and legal practice who present papers in MASLU events. The interdisciplinary skills of the Centre for Marine Studies, a scientific, especially marine biology, research centre located at the University of Queensland, are also regularly used as Guest Lecturers. All of the above assist with research and in giving advice to the post-graduate researchers in the marine law area.
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Cpt Norman Lopez
A highly respected lawyer and mariner of long experience, Cpt Lopez is engaged in the study of the UNCITRAL Draft Instrument on the Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea. His candidature was confirmed in 2008.
Peter Glover
Mr Glover brings his experience as a mariner and lawyer who has practised in both Australia and London to his analysis of whether and to what extent the Australian Trade Practices Act should impact on private commercial shipping arrangements.
Cpt John Kavanagh
Capt Kavanagh is currently employed within Maritime Safety Queensland, having spent 10 years in the Australian Merchant Navy before undertaking his legal training. He is investigating the legislative competence of the Commonwealth in relation to shipping and maritime jurisdiction.
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