IISTL Colloquium Programme 2024

Francis Rose Senior Research Fellow University of Oxford

Francis Rose was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and holds doctorates from the universities of London, Cambridge and Oxford. He has taught at Liverpool, Cardiff, UCL and Cambridge, and has held chairs at the universities of Buckingham, Bristol (where he was also director of the Norton Rose Centre of Commercial Law) and Southampton, where he continues as a visiting professor.

He has also held additional positions at inter alia Hong Kong, Natal, the UN/IMO International Maritime Law Institute at Malta, Auckland, Tulane, Queensland and Oxford (including as senior law tutor at Regent’s Park College and the Robert S Campbell Visiting Fellow in Commercial Law at Magdalen, and now as Senior Research Fellow at the Commercial Law Centre at Harris Manchester College). He has been an active member of the Society of Legal Scholars (in particular as its original Subjects Sections Secretary and as convener of its Restitution Section) and of the British Maritime Law Association. He edits Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly and the International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook, as well as Blackstone’s Statutes on Commercial and Consumer Law and Blackstone’s Statutes on Contract, Tort and Restitution, and was the founding editor of the Company, Financial and Insolvency Law Review (now the Journal of Corporate Law Studies) and the Restitution Law Review. His publications have ranged widely over common law (contract, tort and unjust enrichment), commercial and consumer law, and shipping law, which is his current main focus of research. Books in which he is currently involved include: General Average: Law and Practice, 3rd ed (2018); Marine Insurance: Law and Practice, 2nd ed (2012); Kennedy and Rose: The Law of Salvage, 10th ed (2021); Benjamin’s Sale of Goods, 12th ed (ed Bridge) (2023) (Overseas Sales); Carver on Bills of Lading, 5th ed (with FMB Reynolds); and The Law of Admiralty Claims (with AM Tettenborn), 2nd ed (2024).

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