Description

This seminar will discuss how new technologies such as Blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT), and smart contracts can be and are being harnessed in the trade, sea transport and trade finance sectors to achieve digitalisation. After introducing these technologies and giving an overview of their potential and expected impact in practice, as well as the obstacles that might affect their successful and widespread adoption, the seminar will focus on the implications of digitalisation for the laws and standards governing commercial activity in these sectors.

About The Speaker

Dr Miriam Goldby is Reader in Shipping, Insurance and Commercial Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, Deputy Director of the Centre’s Insurance Law Institute, Co-Academic Director of its Institute of Transnational Commercial Law and Director of its LLM in International Shipping Law. She is a member of the Comité Maritime International (CMI) Standing Committee on Carriage of Goods and of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Commercial Law and Practice Committee. She participated in the Expert Group and Working Group meetings of UNCITRAL’s WG-IV (Electronic Commerce) from 2012 to 2017, contributing to the drafting of the Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records. She is the author of Electronic Documents in Maritime Trade: Law and Practice (OUP), the second edition of which will be published in 2019. She has received research funding from the British Academy, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and Lloyd’s of London, and has contributed to research undertaken by the Bank of England and the Law Commission of England and Wales.

Who Should Attend

Lawyers, In-house counsel, legal officers and public agents and administrators working in shipping, in commercial trade, and in trade and supply chain finance. Those doing research in these fields will also find this seminar of interest.