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Prof Jason Chuah PhD FRSA is Professor of Commercial and Maritime Law and, formerly, Head of Department. He has held scholarships from Barclays Bank and the UK Overseas Development Authority at St Johns College, Cambridge University. He was the holder of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Award 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.
Jason 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.
His works have been cited by the institutions and tribunals in the US, EU, UK and Asia.
He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has been Adjunct Professor at universities in Canada, Sweden, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Cyprus, Finland, Colombia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Turkey.
Jason was a Visiting Research Professor at CML between February to March 2016 where he spoke at the CML Seminar Series, “Choice of law in maritime arbitration” (18 February 2016) at Maxwell Chambers and a seminar on “Letters of credit law” (10 March 2016).
He will be in residence at CML, NUS Law as Visiting Professor from 29 August to 23 September 2022, where he will teach the intensive module, ‘Principles of Port Finance and Regulation’ as well as conduct a CML Seminar, “Greening the Shipbuilding Industry – A Role for Contractual Devices” (21 September 2022).
Publications
A continously updated list of publications is available at:
https://www.city.ac.uk/people/academics/jason-chuah