Professor Barış SOYER Professor of Commercial and Maritime Law Director of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University Professor Soyer directs the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law at Swansea University and is a member of the British Maritime Law Association and British Insurance Law Association. He is the author of Warranties in Marine Insurance (2001), Marine Insurance Fraud (2014),
and many articles published in journals such as Cambridge Law Journal , Law Quarterly Review , Edinburgh Law Review , Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly , the Journal of Business Law , the Torts Law Journal and the Journal of Contract Law . Warranties in Marine Insurance won the Cavendish Book Prize 2001 and was awarded the British Insurance Law Association Charitable Trust Book Prize in 2002 for its contribution to insurance literature. Marine Insurance Fraud also won the latter prize in 2015. He has also edited large numbers of collections of essays on commercial, maritime and insurance law. In addition, he sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Maritime Law, Shipping and Trade Law and editorial committee of the Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly (International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook). Professor Soyer currently teaches Charterparties: Law and Practice and Marine Insurance on the LLM Programme at Swansea.
Celso De Azevedo Barrister Enterprise Chambers
Celso is a commercial barrister with particular expertise in emerging technology disputes relating to cryptoassets recovery, cyber risks, information technology, insurance, breach response and IT projects’ contractual disputes.
Celso is also recognised as a leading re/insurance barrister, having previously worked for over 20 years as a re/insurance and commercial litigation solicitor and partner in UK and US law firms in the City of London, where he gained extensive experience in complex multi-jurisdictional arbitrations and court proceedings worldwide. He is the 2023 BILA prize-winner of the leading practitioner textbook ‘Cyber Risks Insurance, 2nd Ed, Sweet & Maxwell’. Celso is qualified as a New York Attorney, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Certified Crypto Researcher and Investigator (Crystal Intelligence).
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