Bulat 

KARIMOV

Bulat Karimov is a Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Maritime Law (CML). He obtained his LLB from the top-ranking National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, where he came first in his cohort. He was formerly a Research Associate at CML from 2023 to 2025, and prior to that, he was an Associate at NAVICUS.LAW in St Petersburg. Bulat completed his LLM (Shipping Law) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). His LLM dissertation was supervised by Associate Professor Graham Bradfield, and the dissertation title was “Arrest in South Africa of Ships Associated by Common Control of State-Owned Companies”.

Presentations

• “Arrest of Associated Ships from a Common Law Perspective”, CML Lunch Seminar, NUS Law, 3 April 2024
• “Arrest of Associated Ships from a Common Law Perspective – Overreaching and State-Owned Enterprises”, CML Researchers Seminar, NUS Law, 16 October 2024
• Law and Practice of the Arrest of Ships in Russia, CML Lunch Seminar, NUS Law, 4 February 2025
• Ship Arrest in Russia: Judicial Statistics and Practical Issues, CML Lunch Seminar, NUS Law, 6 August 2025

Selected Publications

Articles

• ‘Some Aspects of Ship Arrest in Russia’ (2025) Maritime Law 2, 133
• ‘Joinder of a Foreign Person in Admiralty Proceedings’ (2024) JIML 30(4), 234
• ‘The Locus of Control in the Arrest of Ships Associated by Common Control’ (2024) JIML 30(1), 7
• ‘The Legal Nature of Freight Forwarding Contract: Foreign Experience and Russian Understanding’ (2024) Maritime Law, 70
• ‘Limitation of Liability of a Freight Forwarder and his Contractual Counterparties’ (2022) Maritime Law 1, 61-65
• ‘The Legal Nature of the Contract of Carriage of Goods: Foreign Experience and Russian Understanding’ (2022) Maritime Law 3, 88–105

Working Papers

• “Law and Practice of Ship Arrest in Russia“, (2025) CML Working Paper Series, CML-WPS-2503
• “Arrest of Associated Ships from a Common Law Perspective“, (2024) CML Working Paper Series, CML-WPS-2404

• Admiralty Jurisdiction
• Arrest
• Conflict of Laws
• Maritime Law and New Technologies

Research Project

Arrest of Ships Associated by Common Control from the Common Law Perspective

The research will deal with the problem of the arrest of ships not owned by a person liable. The International conventions on the arrest of ships (both 1952 and 1999) do not stipulate the general possibility of arresting the ships not owned by the person liable. However, the 1999 Arrest Convention stipulates that the states may provide such possibility at the national law level, subverting the purpose of unification. The research aims to find whether it is possible to introduce the provisions allowing the arrest of ships not owned by the person liable at the international level and how to gain more widespread acceptance of these rules by the national governments.

Other Research Interests

Law and practice of Ship arrest in Russia