CML welcomes Visiting Professor Özlem Gürses

Özlem Gürses is Professor of Commercial Law at the King’s College London. Prior to joining King’s College London, Professor Gurses taught  commercial law at the Norwich and Southampton Law Schools.

Professor Gürses has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law from the University of Istanbul. She also studied LLM in Maritime Law (graduated with distinction) at the University of Southampton who, following her masters’ degree, provided full funding for her PhD degree in reinsurance law.

Professor Gürses is the sole author of Marine Insurance Law (Routledge, 2022, 3rd ed),The Law of Compulsory Motor Vehicle Insurance (Informa, 2019),  and Reinsuring Clauses (Informa, 2010). She also updated Insurance of Commercial Risks (Sweet and Maxwell, 2016) in its preparation for the fifth edition.

Professor Gürses sits in the Presidential Council of the International Insurance Law Association (AIDA), and the British Insurance Law Association (BILA) Committee. She is Vice Chair of the Reinsurance Working Party of AIDA.

Professor Gürses is a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Maritime Law (CML) at NUS Law from 31 January to 25 February 2022. She will be conducting a seminar on ‘The Proximate Cause of Loss’ on 23 February 2022 at Maxwell Chambers.  More details about her seminar can be found here.