Richard 
KILPATRICK

 
Academic Fellow

Visiting Scholar

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  • Richard Kilpatrick is an Academic Fellow at CML and a Visiting Professor of Law at the William H Bowen School of Law, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he teaches courses in contracts, sales, and maritime law. Richard has published academic journal articles and book chapters exploring a broad range of maritime and international commercial law issues, and he regularly presents his work at conferences and invited lectures around the world. He previously held tenured and tenure-line faculty positions at business schools in South Carolina and Illinois, and he also practiced maritime law in Chicago. Richard spent time in residence at CML as a Visiting Research Fellow (July – December 2017), Academic Visitor (July – August 2018), and as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow (October – December 2023). Richard holds a JD from Tulane University Law School, and he is a member of the Illinois bar and the Maritime Law Association of the United States. His book Geopolitical Disruption in Shipping: Sanctions, War, and Force Majeure is forthcoming in 2026 with Hart Publishing.

    As a Visiting Scholar, he will conduct research on the impact of geopolitical volatility on shipping.

    Selected Publications

    Articles

    • Richard L Kilpatrick, Jr, ‘Revisiting the Five Powers War Risk Exclusion, (2024) 73 ICLQ 551-577
    • Richard L Kilpatrick, Jr & Adriana Vincenca Padovan, ‘Tanker Sanctions and Environmental Risk’, (2024) 53 JMLC 81-112
    • Richard L Kilpatrick, Jr, ‘What Courts Get Wrong About “War”’ (2024) 135 British Insurance Law Association Journal 1-8
    • Richard L Kilpatrick Jr, ‘Sanctions-Based Impossibility’ [2024] LMCLQ 221-224
    • Richard L Kilpatrick, Jr, ‘Sanctions Clause Redux’ (2023) 29 JIML199-204
    • Richard L Kilpatrick, Jr, ‘Monitoring Sanctions Compliance at Sea’ (2022) 42 Northwestern J of Int’l Law and Business 221-251
    • Felicity G Attard & Richard L Kilpatrick, Jr, ‘Maritime Stowaways: Public and Private Legal Implications’ (2022) 36 Ocean Yearbook 621-658

    Book Chapters

    • Richard L Kilpatrick, Jr, ‘Charterparty Contracts and Clauses for Arctic Shipping’, in Yoshifumi Tanaka et al, Routledge Handbook of Polar Law (Routledge 2023) 631-645

      Richard L Kilpatrick, Jr, ‘Carriage of Goods by Sea’ in Simon Borg et al, Research Handbook on Ocean Governance (Edward Elgar 2023) 316-324

  • Carriage of goods
  • Marine insurance
  • Maritime security
  • Comparative law