Description

The seminar deals with all aspects of the endorsement of bills of lading. How does an endorsement work, are all bills of lading ‘endorseable’, and where can it go wrong? What does the surrender of the bill of lading ‘duly endorsed’ mean, and how can this obligation affect the claimant’s right of suit?

About The Speaker

Dr Michiel Spanjaart was a Post-doctoral Fellow at NUS from August 2013 to July 2015 and a Visiting Professor in August 2015, when he taught an intensive elective course on Multimodal Transport Law. He will be teaching the same course at NUS Law in August 2018. Dr Spanjaart obtained his LLB at the University of Utrecht in 1996 and his PhD at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam in 2012. His doctoral thesis, Vorderingsrechten uit cognossement (“Rights of suit under a bill of lading”), was published as a book by Paris Uitgeverij in 2012.

Dr Spanjaart’s latest book, Multimodal Transport Law, was published by Routledge in September 2017. He is currently teaching at the Erasmus University and he is a practising advocate at Trains & Co in Rotterdam. Prior to this, Michiel was a partner with Kneppelhout & Korthals Advocaten, Padberg Spanjaart Advocaten, and before that with DLA Piper. His field of expertise includes transport and insurance & commercial law.

Who Should Attend

Maritime lawyers, lawyers working in commodities and banking, in-house counsel and legal officers in the shipping industry and connected to and working in shipping.