Paul 
MYBURGH

 
Adjunct Research Professor

Paul is a Professor of Law at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT). He was formerly the Deputy Director of the Centre for Maritime Law (CML) and Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore since May 2015, where he primarily taught Admiralty Law & Practice, Maritime Conflict of Laws, and Trade Finance Law. Paul had previously held faculty positions in South Africa and New Zealand. He has also held visiting teaching positions and research fellowships at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, the Nordisk Institutt for Sjoerett, University of Oslo, and at City University of Hong Kong (as KH Koo Foundation Visiting Research Fellow at the Hong Kong Centre for Maritime and Transport Law).

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Contact

myburgh@nus.edu.sg

Education

LLM, LLB, BA (Hons), BLC (University of Pretoria); Advocate (South Africa)

Current Courses

Paul is a Professor of Law at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT). He was formerly the Deputy Director of the Centre for Maritime Law (CML) and Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore since May 2015, where he primarily taught Admiralty Law & Practice, Maritime Conflict of Laws, and Trade Finance Law. Paul had previously held faculty positions in South Africa and New Zealand. He has also held visiting teaching positions and research fellowships at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, the Nordisk Institutt for Sjoerett, University of Oslo, and at City University of Hong Kong (as KH Koo Foundation Visiting Research Fellow at the Hong Kong Centre for Maritime and Transport Law).

Paul is the Chief Editor of the CML CMI Database on Judicial Decisions on International Conventions. He is the New Zealand correspondent for Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, and sits on the editorial boards of the Journal for International Maritime Law and the Maritime Business Review.

Research Interests

  • Admiralty/Maritime Law
  • International Trade and Transport Law
  • Private International Law
  • Shipping Law
  • Transnational Commercial Law

Selected Publications

Articles

Book Chapters

  • Paul Myburgh, ‘Taxonomizing third-party rights of direct action against marine liability insurers’ in Özlem Gürses (ed), Research Handbook on Marine Insurance Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2024) 204
  • Paul Myburgh and Piers Davies, ‘Heritage in Maritime Law‘ in Lucas Lixinski, Lucie K. Morisset eds., The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law (Routledge, 2024) 333-347
  • Paul Myburgh, ‘Private International Law Strategies in Ship Management and Crewing Arrangements’ in Stephen Girvin and Vibe Ulfbeck (eds), Maritime Organisation, Management and Liability: A Legal Analysis of New Challenges in the Maritime Industry (Hart Publishing 2021) 61
  • Paul Myburgh, ‘Conflict of Laws and the Arrest Conventions’ in Paul Myburgh (ed), The Arrest Conventions: International Enforcement of Maritime Claims (Hart Publishing 2019) 151

Edited Books