Description

The aim of the short course will be to examine recent developments in trade finance across a range of Common Law jurisdictions and to identify future judicial, policy and regulatory trends. The focus will be on letters of credit, but cognate instruments will be analysed when instructive. As well as examining recent developments concerning the formation, interpretation and vitiation of letters of credit, the course will examine recent developments and future trends in the key areas of strict compliance, credit autonomy (including relevant exceptions) and enforcement.

About The Speaker

Christopher Hare is the Travers Smith Associate Professor of Corporate and Commercial Law at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow in Law at Somerville College, Oxford. After a short period at the English Bar, he held teaching posts at the University of Auckland and Jesus College, Cambridge. He has degrees from Trinity College, Cambridge (undergraduate), Harvard Law School (LLM) and Brasenose College, Oxford (BCL). His teaching and research interests lie broadly in the law of obligations and the corporate and commercial law fields, with particular focus on domestic and international banking law, corporate finance, and shareholder remedies. His books include Ellinger, Lomnicka and Hare, Modern Banking Law (OUP, 2011) and Watts, Campbell and Hare, Company Law in New Zealand (LexisNexis, 2nd ed, 2015). He has contributed chapters on syndicated lending and tiers of lenders to Paget’s Law of Banking (LexisNexis, 14th ed, 2015).

Who Should Attend

Lawyers, in-house counsel and legal officers working in the maritime industry and in commercial trade, banks and financial institutions, traders, charterers, forwarders.