Michael Biltoo Partner Kennedys Law
Michael is a maritime solicitor based in London. Michael originally studied at Swansea Law School and the IISTL. Formerly with niche shipping law firm Waltons & Morse, he joined Kennedys as part of their merger in 2016 and subsequently joined the partnership there. Michael is a specialist in the marine and shipping sector, and principally represents owners, charterers, freight forwarders and cargo insurers in a variety of shipping and transport related matters.
His practice is primarily focused on dispute resolution in dry shipping matters, particularly charterparty disputes in which he has represented both owners and charterers. Michael also has significant experience with carriage of goods by sea disputes, piracy related matters and insurance coverage disputes. He has taken an interest in the development of autonomous sailing and the growing cyber risk in the marine market.
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Michael Sturley Professor University of Texas at Austin
Michael Sturley holds the Fannie Coplin Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas Law School, where he teaches inter alia maritime law and commercial law courses and co-directs the Supreme Court Clinic. He received his undergraduate education at Yale and has law degrees from Yale and Oxford. Prof. Sturley is a Titulary Member of the Comité Maritime International (where he served as the Rapporteur for the
International Sub-Committee on Issues of Transport Law); a proctor member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States (where he is active on several committees); and a life member of the American Law Institute. He was the Senior Advisor on the U.S. Delegation to Working Group III (Transport Law) of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and a member of the UNCITRAL Experts’ Group on Transport Law. In 2008, American Maritime Cases dedi- cated its Seventeenth Five-Year Digest to him. Prof. Sturley has written extensively on maritime subjects, particularly on the carriage of goods by sea. He has lectured on maritime subjects at law schools and conferences in the United States and around the world. He has also been consulted in maritime cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, in many of the lower federal courts, and in state and foreign courts. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Texas Law School, Prof. Sturley was associated with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. He had previously served as a law clerk to Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., at the United States Supreme Court, and to Judge Amalya L. Kearse, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (in New York).
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