IISTL Colloquium Programme 2024

George Leloudas Professor of Law Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University Dr George Leloudas is a Professor at the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law (IISTL) of Swansea University, UK.

He graduated from the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds LLM degrees in Commercial Law from the University of Bristol and in Air and Space Law from the Institute of Air and Space Law of McGill University. He also completed his PhD in air law, emphasising liability and insurance, at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, in 2009. Before joining the IISTL in 2011, George worked as a solicitor at Gates and Partners in London for several years. During that time, he advised on aerospace liability and airlines’ regulatory matters. He was also an assistant to the legal counsel of the International Union of Aviation Insurers (IUAI), providing support for replacing the Rome Convention on Surface Damage. George’s principal research interest is the carriage of passengers and goods by air, but his (research and teaching) interests extend to multimodal transport, insurance law, the regulation of autonomous transport systems, artificial intelligence and cyber risks in the transport sector and arbitration law. He has also received grants for regulating autonomous transport systems and the insurance management of cyber risks. He has published two monographs, the first on Risk and Liability in Air Law (Informa) and the second on Air Cargo Insurance (Informa) with Professor Malcolm Clarke of Cambridge University, and a long list of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is also the General Editor of the preeminent air law publication Shawcross and Beaumont on Air Law (LexisNexis). His new book on the Montreal Convention 1999 (Elgar Publishing), with Professor Paul Dempsey, Dr Laurent Chassot, and 34 internationally revered experts, was published at the end of 2023 and presents a comprehensive, article-by-article analysis of the Montreal Convention 1999. George is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) and Vice Chair of the RAeS Air Law Group Committee. He is also an editor of McGill University’s Annals of Air and Space Law and an instructor at the Training Institute of IATA, where he regularly teaches international air law, aviation insurance law, and air cargo liability. For more information on his CV, please refer to: swansea.ac.uk/staff/g.leloudas

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