Michiel 
SPANJAART

 
Visiting Senior Research Fellow

FULL BIOGRAPHY

Contact

ms@trainsco.nl

In Residence

15 July 2022 to 31 August 2022

Dr Michiel Spanjaart was a Post-doctoral Fellow at NUS from August 2013 – July 2015 and MPA Visiting Professor of Maritime Law at NUS in August 2015, teaching an intensive elective course on Multimodal Transport Law. He is currently a lecturer at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) as well as an advocate with the Rotterdam law firm Trains & Co. Prior to founding Trains & Co, Michiel was an advisor of Kneppelhout & Korthals Advocaten, a partner with Padberg Spanjaart Advocaten, and before that a partner with DLA Piper. His practice areas include transport, insurance and commercial law.

Presentations

  • “Straight bills of lading”, CML Seminar, NUS Law, 08 July 2022
  • “Towards an electronic straight bill of lading”, CML Lunch Seminar, NUS Law, 20 July 2022

Selected Publications

  • M. Spanjaart, Multimodal Transport Law, Routledge 2017
  • M. Spanjaart, The successive carrier: a relic from the past Uniform Law Review – Revue de droit uniforme 2016, 1-12
  • M. Spanjaart, Transfennica v. Schenker, the system of articles 17 and 23 CMR TranspR 2016, 383
  • M. Spanjaart, Endorsement, delivery, possession and holdership (2015) 21 JIML 18 (The Erin Schulte)
  • M. Spanjaart, The surrender of the bill of lading ‘duly endorsed’ (2014) 20 JIML 327
  • M. Spanjaart, Vorderingsrechten uit cognossement (Rights of suit under a bill of lading), Paris 2012
  • M. Spanjaart, Godafoss, the applicability of the CMR within multimodal contracts of carriage, TranspR 2012, 278
  • M. Spanjaart, The Konnossementsbegebungsvertrag – a suggestion for further reformation, TranspR 2011, 335
  • M. Spanjaart, Rechtsmacht in verzekeringszaken (Jurisdiction in insurance matters), NTHR 2006, 225
  • M. Spanjaart, De Himalaya-clausule en de derdenwerking van algemene voorwaarden (The Himalaya-clause and the operation of general conditions against third parties), TVR 2006, 84
  • M. Spanjaart & E.J.L. Bulthuis, Het hellend vlak tussen de objectieve maatstaf en het Haviltex criterium, of de uitleg van cognossementsbepalingen (The gliding scale between the objective norm and the Haviltex-criterion, or the interpretation of the provisions of the bill of lading), WPNR 2004, 399

Working Papers