Miriam 

GOLDBY

Dr Miriam Goldby is Professor of Shipping, Insurance and Commercial Law and Director of Research at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. She was previously director of the Centre’s Insurance, Shipping and Aviation Law Institute (2019-2022) and founder and director of its International Shipping Law LLM (2013-2022). She is the author of Electronic Documents in Maritime Trade: Law and Practice 2nd edn (OUP, 2019), and has published extensively in the fields of shipping, insurance and financial law. She had participated in the work of UNCITRAL WG IV, Electronic Commerce which led to the adoption of the Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records in 2017. She also undertook a part-time secondment to the Law Commission of England and Wales to work on the Electronic Trade Documents project (Phase 1 of the Commission’s Digital Assets Project) between November 2020 and March 2022. She is a member of the Comité Maritime International (CMI) Standing Committee on Carriage of Goods, and vice-chair of ICC UK Commercial Law and Practice Committee. She is also a member of British Insurance Law Association (BILA) Committee and editor of the BILA journal.

Professor Goldby is an Academic Fellow at the Centre for Maritime Law (CML) at the NUS Law, where she is in residence as Visiting Professor from 3 to 27 January 2023. During her residency, she will teach the intensive module, Law of Marine Insurance. Professor Goldby will also conduct a CPD seminar titled, ‘The UK Electronic Trade Documents Bill: How does it compare with recent amendments to the Singapore Electronic Transactions Act?’  at Maxwell Chambers on 26 January 2023.

A full link to Miriam’s professional biography can be found here

Working Paper

Goldby, Miriam A., The Use of Insurance Documents in International Trade – Enabling Digitalisation (August 1, 2023). CML Working Paper Series 23/07  https://ssrn.com/abstract=4527503

• Charterparty and carriage of goods contracts
• Contract theory
• Maritime arbitration and shipping dispute resolution
• Paperless trade
• Transnational shipping law