Brief Biodata

Dr Stephen Girvin is a Professor of Law at NUS. He has held faculty positions at the University of Aberdeen, the University of Nottingham, NUS, and the University of Birmingham, where he was Professor of Maritime Law from 2006-2008. He is the author of Carriage of Goods by Sea (Oxford, 2007) and a co-author of Charlesworth's Company Law 17th ed (Sweet & Maxwell, 2005). He is currently working on new editions of both these books. He is also a contributor to D Rhidian Thomas (ed), A New Convention for the Carriage of Goods by Sea: The Rotterdam Rules (Lawtext, 2009), D Rhidian Thomas (ed), Liability Regimes in Contemporary Maritime Law (Informa, 2007) and of Palmer's Company Law Annotated Guide to the Companies Act 2006 (Sweet & Maxwell, 2007). He has been an editor of Palmer's Company Law (Sweet & Maxwell) for more than ten years. He is also a member of the Editorial Committee of the International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook, which is published as part of Lloyd's Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly (Informa), and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Aegean Review of the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law (Springer).

Stephen speaks regularly at international and regional conferences and colloquia, most recently in Seoul and Sydney. Future engagements will take him to Rotterdam, for an international colloquium on the Rotterdam Rules hosted by the ERASMUS University, and to Hamburg, where he will be speaking at the International Congress of Maritime Arbitrators. He is a member of the Singapore Maritime Law Association (SMLA) and the British Maritime Law Association (BMLA) and is a Supporting Member of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA). He serves as an observer to the Singapore Shipping Association's Legal & Insurance Committee and also acts from time to time as a consultant in maritime and shipping matters.