Luci 

CAREY

Luci is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Maritime Law at NUS Law and Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Aberdeen.

Luci obtained her LLB (Hons) (First Class) degree in 2015 from Murdoch University in Western Australia and her LLM (Maritime Law) from the National University of Singapore in 2019. She holds a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (with Merit) from the Australian National University and is an admitted lawyer in the State of Western Australia. Luci also holds an MA (Hons) degree in Politics from Edinburgh University. Prior to joining the Centre for Maritime Law in 2016, Luci was Research Associate to the Honourable Justice Carmel McLure AC, President of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Western Australia.

Presentations

• “Autonomous Ships: challenges for collision liability law”, LUMPLG City, University of London, 21 April 2023
• “Limits of Liability for claims…arising on any distinct occasion”: issues interpreting article 6(1) of the LLMC 1976/1996 in the context of remotely operated crewless ships and autonomous ships”, CML Lunch Seminar Series, 14 April 2023
• “Collisions and Unmanned Ships: Is law reform necessary?”, CML Lunch Seminar Series, 14 April 2021
• “Remotely Operated Unmanned Vessels and their ‘crew’”, CML Lunch Seminar Series, 12 August 2020
• “Autonomous ships and marine insurance”, CML Seminar Series, 16 May 2019
• “Updates on Autonomous Ships: the ships; insurance; the law; opinions”, CML Lunch Seminar Series, 30 January 2019
• “Autonomous ships and marine insurance”, Conference on Maritime Management, Organisation and Liability, University of Copenhagen 27 November 2018
• “Unmanned Ships and latent defects, what next for the Inchmaree Clause?”, CML Lunch Seminar Series, 19 September 2018
• “Package Limitation and the Hague-Visby Rules: a comment on Kyokuyo Ltd v Maersk”, CML Lunch Seminar Series, 8 August 2017
• “Legal issues for autonomous ships”, CML Lunch Seminar Series, 15 March 2017

Selected Publications

Articles

• “Can a Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle (ROV) be arrested? The Seaeye Leopard” [2020] LMCLQ 553
• “All hands off deck? The legal barriers to autonomous ships” (2017) 23(3) Journal of International Maritime Law 202-219
• “The Maritime Labour Convention 2006: The seafarer and the fisher” (2017) 31(1) Australian and New Zealand Maritime Law Journal 14-36

Book Chapters

• “Autonomous Ships and Hull and Machinery Marine Insurance”, in Stephen Girvin and Vibe Ulfbeck (eds), Maritime Organisation, Management and Liability: A Legal Analysis of New Challenges in the Maritime industry (Hart Publishing 2021) 257-281

Working Papers

• “Pushing the Limits: How Limitation of Liability Will Apply to Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships“, (2024) CML Working Paper Series, CML-WPS-2403
• “Contractual and Tortious Maritime Liability Regimes and the introduction of Autonomous Vessels“, (2023) CML Working Paper Series, CML-WPS-2303
• “All hands off deck? The legal barriers to autonomous ships”, (2017) CML Working Paper Series, CML-WPS-1706

Reports

• “Report on the BIMCO Autonomous Ships Seminar” (2019) CML Reports, CML-R1901
• “Report on the 14th IISTL Colloquium on new technologies on shipping/trade law” (2018) CML Reports, CML-R1805 (with Elson Ong)

• Maritime Law
• International Carriage of Goods
• Carriage of Passengers
• Marine Insurance

Research Project

Autonomous Ships

This project that examines the future legal opportunities and challenges presented by the use of automated technology and unmanned vessels in international shipping. The project involves assessing the current domestic and international legal regimes, with respect to safe manning levels. It also considers why the proposed autonomous ships will struggle to provide the functional equivalent of the shipmaster and, how, or if, these vessels can comply with compulsory pilotage. At an international level, the project will evaluate what jurisdictional issues may arise and whether the current limitation regimes for maritime claims may be relied upon in the event of an incident involving an unmanned or autonomous ship. The project is assessing these issues from an Asian common law and commonwealth perspective, with a particular emphasis on Singapore’s legislative framework.