Rui Zheng Associate Professor School of Law, Shanghai Maritime University, China
Dr Rui Zheng received his PhD from Swansea University, UK. He is currently Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Maritime Law at the School of Law, Shanghai Maritime University, China. He is also the Executive Deputy Director of the Institute of Maritime Law, Shanghai Maritime University. His teaching and research focus mainly on contract law, maritime law, insurance law and arbitration law in both China and the UK. He is Deputy Secretary General and a standing member of the China Maritime Law Association, a member of the China Association of Insurance Law, Deputy Director of the Insurance and Law Committee of the China Shipowners’ Association and a mediator of the China Maritime Arbitration Commission. He is the author of four monographs and has published nearly 20 articles and nearly 120 case commentaries on Chinese and foreign maritime law.
Simon Baughen Professor Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University Professor Simon Baughen was appointed as Professor of Shipping Law in the Department of Shipping and Trade Law at Swansea University in September 2013. He had previously been a Reader at the University of Bristol Law School where he had worked since joining academia in 1989.
Simon Baughen studied law at Oxford and practised in maritime law from 1979 to 1988.
His research interests lie mainly in the field of shipping law in which he has written extensively over the last thirty years. He is the author of ‘Shipping Law’, now in its eighth edition, and took over authorship of ‘Summerskill on Laytime’ in 2013 for its fifth edition which is now in its seventh edition. He also researches in the environmental and human rights law implications of the activities of multinational corporations in the developing world. He has produced two books on this topic. ‘International Trade and the Protection of the Environment’ in 2007 and ‘Human Rights and Corporate Wrongs. Closing the Governance Gap?’ in 2015.
Simon is a member of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law (IISTL) at Swansea University.
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