Mayank 

SURI

Mayank Suri is a Research Fellow at Centre for Maritime Law (CML) at NUS Faculty of Law. Mayank has gained experience in litigation, transactional and academic work in India. He is an Assistant Professor of Law (on leave) at the OP Jindal Global University, India and has also completed a research internship at Swansea University, United Kingdom on “Artificial Intelligence and Maritime Law”. Mayank is interested in research at the intersection of technology, law, maritime trade, and economic institutions. He is focused on making his academic research industry relevant.

Presentations

• “Autonomous ships and the proximate cause conundrum – a maritime and insurance law tango”, Autonomous Inland and Short Sea Shipping Conference (AISS 2020) by Development Centre for Ship Technology and Transport Systems (DST), University of Duisburg-Essen, RWTH Aachen University, 23 October 2020
• “Autonomous vessels as ships – The definition conundrum”, International Conference on Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship (ICMASS 2020) by Korea Autonomous and Unmanned Ship Forum (KAUS), 11 & 12 November 2020
• “Calculating salvage rewards for crewless vessels”, CML Research Workshop, NUS Law, 27 October 2021
• “Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) and limitation of liability”, CML Research Workshop, NUS Law, 16 March 2022

Selected Publications

Articles

• ‘Autonomous Vessels as Ships – The Definition Conundrum’ 2020 IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. 929 012005 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/929/1/012005
• ‘Autonomous Ships and the Proximate Cause Conundrum – A Maritime and Insurance Law Tango’ (2020) 51 Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 163-185
• ‘Fixture and Gencon 94: Are Gencon 94 Law and Arbitration Provisions brought into the Charter? The Indian View’ (2020) 26 Journal of International Maritime Law 154-155
• ‘Will LLMC apply to Remote Control Centre Operators? (The Stema Barge II)’ [2022] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 9-12
• ‘Who is an Operator within LLMC? (The Stema Barge II)’  [2022] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 177-183
• Mayank Suri & Krzysztof Wróbel. ‘Identifying factors affecting salvage rewards of crewless vessels — lessons from a case study.’ [2022] WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs https://doi.org/10.1007/s13437-022-00276-0

Working Papers

• “Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (Mass) and the Salvage Convention 1989” (2022) CML Working Paper Series, CML-WPS-2205

• Liability aspects of maritime trade
• Commercial maritime law
• Commercial structuring of economic institutions within the maritime industry
• Disruptive technologies – Operational and documentational
• Maritime claims
• Enforcement aspects of admiralty jurisdiction