Viktor 

WÉBER

Dr Viktor Wéber was a Senior Research Assistant and Research Fellow in the Institute of Maritime Law at Southampton University. He obtained his LLB (with European Legal Studies in Rouen, France), LLM (Maritime law), and PhD also from Southampton. During his graduate studies, Viktor held a DAAD Summer Law School Scholarship at the University of Freiburg. He completed his doctoral thesis as part of an interdisciplinary project under Professor Mikis Tsimplis on “Environmental Liability from Offshore Carbon Dioxide Sequestration in the European Union”. Apart from these main duties, Viktor has been a tutor on LLB (Tort law) and LLM (Admiralty Law) courses at Southampton. He was a co-editor of the School’s journal, the Southampton Student Law Review. Viktor’s main interests are in commercial and also public maritime law.

Publications

• “Uncertain liability and stagnating CCS deployment in the European Union: Is it the Member States’ turn?” (2018) 1 Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law 000-000
• “The UK Liability Framework for the Transport of CO2 for Offshore CCS Operations” (2016) 31(4) International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law pp. 1-35 (with M Tsimplis)
• ‘Case review: OW Bunkers – the story so far’ (2016) 16(1) Shipping and Trade Law 9-10
• ‘Reflections on The Cendor MOPU‘ (2011) 1(2) Southampton Student Law Review 19-21

Working Papers:

• “The Legal Issues Behind Stagnating CCS Deployment in the European Union – is it the Member States’ Turn?“, (2017) CML Working Paper Series, CML-WPS-1708

Presentations

• “Recent Developments in the Carriage of Goods by Sea”, CML Lunch Seminar Series, 5 September 2017