Teaching Staff and IISTL Members
Angela Nicholas LLB, LLM, LPC (Swansea)
Simon Rainey KC MA Hons (Cantab), Lic Sp Dr Eur (Brussels), Honorary Professor
Professor Andrew Tettenborn MA, LLB (Cantab), Barrister
Angie initially joined the Shipping & Trade Team as a Research Officer on the HEFCW funded Cyber Risk Insurance: Building Resilience in Wales project, before becoming a Tutor in 2023. Prior to this,
Professor Tettenborn’s quality of teaching has been acknowledged by Swansea University with the award of a well-deserved prize for excellence in learning and teaching.
Simon Rainey KC is a barrister at Quadrant Chambers, the leading shipping set in London.
Angie worked in the consumer and commercial insurance industry, training staff on insurance regulation. Angie holds an LLB, LLM and LPC from Swansea University, and is currently pursuing a PhD in the use of Blockchain within shipping and insurance. She has recently co-published a paper in the Edinburgh Law Review on cyber risk insurance as a risk mitigation tool for SMEs. Angie teaches on several of the shipping and trade modules.
His principal areas of practice are international commerce, embracing particularly shipping, commodities, insurance and the carriage and sale of goods, and energy. He is frequently appointed as arbitrator (LCIA, ICC, LMAA and ad-hoc, sitting both sole and as co-arbitrator); he also sits as a Recorder and as a Deputy High Court Judge in the Queen’s Bench Division. He has been cited for many years by the Legal 500 as a leading silk in shipping, commodities, commercial litigation and dispute resolution, international arbitration, energy insurance, reinsurance, and professional negligence. He is the author of The Law of Tug and Tow and Offshore Contracts (2nd Edn, Informa, 2004; the third edition is renamed The Law of Offshore Contracts, and was published in 2011).
He is a general common and commercial lawyer with wide interests but he specialises in international trade law, ship finance and admiralty law. Professor Tettenborn co-edits Marsden’s Collisions at Sea, and is the General Editor of Clerk & Lindsell on Torts. In 2020, with Professor Francis Rose, he produced the Admiralty Claims for the British Shipping Law series. He sits on the editorial board of Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly, and the Journal of International Maritime Law.
Emeritus Professor D. Rhidian Thomas LLB (Wales), MA (Sheffield), ACIArb
Dr Jia Wang LLB (DMU), LLM, PhD (Nottingham)
Dr Shuangge Wen LLB (CUPL), LLM (Nottingham, Manchester), PhD (Manchester), Professor at Jilin University Prior to joining Swansea in 2011, Associate Professor Wen was lecturing at the University of Liverpool.
Professor Thomas, a graduate of the Universities of Wales and Sheffield, was appointed Professor of Maritime Law in 2000, and remained such until his retirement in 2010.
Jia joined Swansea University as a Lecturer in 2023. She holds an LLB in Maritime Law from Dalian Maritime University, after which she worked as an Assistant Judge in a local court in China for two years. Jia also holds
two LLM Maritime Law Degrees from Dalian Maritime University and the University of Nottingham, and completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham in 2023. Before joining Swansea University, Jia worked as a Teaching Associate at the University of Nottingham between 2021 and 2023. Her research interests lie in socio-legal studies of legal transplantation, marine insurance law, with a particular focus on the protection of SMEs in insurance business, and legal globalisation.
He has been a member of the Departmental Advisory Committee on Arbitration Law, which produced and drafted the Arbitration Act 1996; of another committee advising the Department of Transport on the implementation of international conventions on shipping; of the British Maritime Law Association; and the British Insurance Law Association. He is author of numerous well-known texts in the industry and his journal publications in international commercial and maritime law, and in arbitration law, are extensive.
Her research specialisms extend from general aspects of business law tointerdisciplinary areas including corporate governance, business ethics and investment strategy, on which she has published several articles in renowned legal journals. She currently serves as a Professor in Law at the prestigious Jilin University in China. In Swansea, Dr Wen is involved in the teaching of our LLM programmes as the Module Director of International Corporate Law and Governance.
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