Teaching Staff and IISTL Members
Professor Barış Soyer BA (Ankara), LLM, PhD (Soton), Director of Shipping and Trade LLM Programmes
Dr Tabetha Kurtz-Shefford MA in Law (Bristol), LLM, PhD (Swansea), Deputy Director of Shipping and Trade LLM Programmes Dr Kurtz-Shefford, Deputy Director of the Shipping and Trade LLM Programmes at the School of law, was appointed in 2013.
Dr Zoumpoulia Amaxilati BCL (Thessaloniki) LLM, PhD (Soton), Attorney at Law (Kavala) Dr Amaxilati joined Swansea in 2019. She specialises in admiralty law, maritime labour law and personal injury claims.
With more than twenty years of teaching experience, both in the university classroom and within the maritime industry, Professor Soyer is the Director of the Shipping and Trade LLM Programmes at the School of Law, Swansea University. He has written extensively on marine insurance, and other aspects of commercial and maritime law, and has garnered several industry awards for his books on the subject. His teaching focuses on maritime-based modules, including Law of Marine Insurance and Charterparties: Law and Practice.
Prior to joining the Institute, Dr Amaxilati worked as a Lecturer in Private Law at Queen Mary University of London. She was also a Tutor in Law at the University of Southampton where she taught Admiralty Law at LLM level. Dr Amaxilati is a qualified lawyer in Greece.
She is a graduate of Bristol University, and also holds two master’s degrees and a PhD from Swansea University. She teaches on the International Trade Law and Offshore Energy Law modules. She is also the Director of the International Commercial Mooting module, which has seen students perform twice in front of the Supreme Court.
Professor Simon Baughen MA (Oxon)
Dr Lowri Davies LLB, LLM, PhD (Swansea)
Paul Dean HFW, Global Head of Shipping
Professor Baughen is the author of the well-known text “Shipping Law”, now in its sixth edition, and is now the author of “Summerskill on Laytime” which is also in its sixth edition. He was previously a Reader at the University of Bristol Law School and also worked as a practising shipping lawyer; first in London P&I Club and then as a solicitor with Horrocks & Co. He is an expert in carriage of goods by sea and has substantial knowledge on charterparties, both of which are subjects he teaches on our Shipping and Trade LLMs. He also teaches on our Corporate Law and Governance module, and is the author of “Human Rights and Corporate Wrongs: Closing the Governance Gap.”
Dr Lowri Davies is a Lecturer in Law at Swansea University. She holds an LLM in International Business Law and a PhD from Swansea University. Her research interests extend broadly through intellectual property law and human rights, with particular
Paul is the Global Head of Shipping at HFW. He regularly speaks at, and chairs, offshore vessel conferences, and has been teaching on the BIMCO panel for their “Using SUPPLYTIME” course for over 10 years. He is also on the review committee
interest in access to medicines. She has presented papers in the field of intellectual property law at several conferences, and has published work in academic journals. Prior to her master’s studies she worked in legal practice in the UK for several years. Lowri’s teaching experience extends to the undergraduate and postgraduate levels including Land Law, Equity and Trusts and Intellectual Property Law. She currently teaches International Intellectual Property Law on the LLM programme. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and also a Member of the Society of Legal Scholars and the Socio-Legal Studies Association.
for the SUPPLYTIME 2005 revision, and on the drafting committee for BIMCO’s new standard form Offshore Dismantling Services Agreement DISMANTLECON. Paul is recognised in the Legal Directories as one of the leading individuals in his field; with Lloyd’s List naming him as one of the 100 most influential people in the maritime industry. Paul has also contributed to the two most recent editions of “The Law of Tug and Tow and Offshore Contracts” edited by Simon Rainey KC and Lord Clarke.
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