CML welcomes Visiting Professor Jason Chuah

Jason Chuah FRSA is Professor of Commercial and Maritime Law and, formerly, Head of Department at the City University of London. He was the holder of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Award, Barclays Cambridge Scholarship and the Cambridge Commonwealth Fellowship and also has a Certificate in Export with Distinction from the Institute of Export, winning the Clive Schmitthoff Commercial Law prize and the Sweet & Maxwell book prize.

Professor Chuah is Executive Director of the London Universities Maritime Law and Policy Group and has been nominated three times for the Oxford University Press Award for Best Law Teacher of the Year. He has been involved in various consultations with the Ministry of Justice, the OECD, the ICC, the Association of British Insurers, the UNCITRAL, etc. He also serves as a member of the Consultative Group on Sustainable Shipping for the UN Global Compact and has contributed to the highly influential ICC-ECCO International Good Practice Guide for Offsets. He has given evidence to the UK Parliament on various matters including access to trade finance and seafarers employment rights. He has published widely, including 11 books and over 200 articles in academic and professional journals.

Professor Chuah is the speaker for the CML Seminar, “Greening the Shipbuilding Industry – A Role for Contractual Devices” that will be held on 21 September 2022.