Nordic Maritime Law Gathering 2023

The Nordic Maritime Law Gathering is a unique melting pot of industry experts, researchers, and students, interested in ocean related law. Fifty participants from all levels of academia are coming from the Nordics and beyond to partake in a two day program. The gathering is organized by the Department of Law at the School of Business, Economics and Law of Gothenburg University and takes place on the 30^th and 31^st of March.

The first day of the program includes visits to:

• Stena Group and a viewing of one of their ships,
• Mannheimer Swartling for discussions on how they work with maritime law,
• Swedish Club for discussions on legal issues of maritime insurance and how a global maritime insurance scheme is managed, and
• Vinge for discussions on their work in maritime law and the role of academia in private law practice.

The visits will give researchers and students the opportunity to discuss legal, as well as, technical issues with industry experts on site. It will of course also provide ample opportunity to discuss possible ideas for collaboration. The day is ended with a joint dinner at Handelshögskolan.    

The second day contains one program for master students and one for doctoral students. Master students will be given the opportunity to discuss ideas for their master thesis in smaller groups and with participating researchers as well as industry experts. Doctoral students will have a program of presentations and discussions focused on topics that they are currently working on. The sessions will be attended by researchers and industry experts who will give feedback on the presentations.

The second day concludes with a joint program. First the attendants will work on project proposals based on the discussions that have been had during the day. This is followed by a closing session on writing and academic thesis led by professors Ellen Eftestøl and Claes Martinson.

The organizers are thankful to all participating industry experts, for their contributions, and, for the funding from, Stiftelsen Dispachören Kaj Pineus Forskningsfond, which is making the gathering possible.

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Program

THURSDAY 30 MARCH
- VISIT TO EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS (APPROX. 30)

9.15-11:30
Stena RoRo: Per Westling, CEO and Mattias Kjellberg, Contract Manager
Stena AB: Ellinor Landberg, Insurance Director
We meet inside the terminal at Stenas danmarksterminal, Emigrantvägen 20 [map link].

12:00-13.30 
Mannheimer Swartling: Stefan Brocker, Partner 
Light lunch included

14.00-15.30 
Swedish Club: Magnus Johansson, Senior Claims Manager and Martin Birgersson, Claims Manager

16:00-17.30 
Vinge: Paula Bäckdén, Senior Associate, Advokat

18:00-23.00  Walking dinner at GU, Handelshögskolan (Approx. 40-45) 

FRIDAY 31 MARCH
– MASTER & DOCTORAL THESIS WORKSHOPS AT GU

B41 – All & Doctoral students’ presentations

C31 – Commercial Shipping
Stefan Brocker, Paula Bäckden, Ellinor Landberg, Claes Martinson

C32 – Autonomous Shipping
Jeanette Andersson, Abhinayan Basu Bal, Iva Parlov

C33 – Environmental and Sustainability Issues
Gabriela Arguello, Lena Gipperth, Patrick Vrancken

Participants

External experts: 6

Andersson, Jeannette (VTI), https://issuu.com/vtisweden/docs/vti_aktuellt_nr_3_2020/s/11043736

Birgersson, Martin (Swedish club), martin.birgersson@swedishclub.com

Brocker, Stefan (Mannheimer Swartling, Partner), https://www.mannheimerswartling.se/en/our-people/stefan-brocker/

Bäckden, Paula  (Vinge, Senior Associate), https://www.vinge.se/medarbetare/paula-backden/

Johansson, Magnus (Swedish club), martin.birgersson@swedishclub.com

Landberg, Ellinor (Stena, Insurance director)
https://se.linkedin.com/in/ellinor-landberg-b3859435

From Gothenburg University

Arguello, Gabriella, Researcher, Department of Law, University of Gothenburg, Gabriela Arguello | University of Gothenburg

Basu Bal, Abhinayan, Senior Lecturere, Department of Law, University of Gothenburg, Abhinayan Basu Bal | University of Gothenburg (gu.se)

Gipperth, Lena, Professor in Law, University of Gothenburg, Lena Gipperth | University of Gothenburg (gu.se)

Martinson, Claes, Professor in Private Law, Excellent Teacher, Holder of the Torsten Pettersson chair in Maritime and Transport Law, University of Gothenburg Claes Martinson | University of Gothenburg (gu.se)

Vrancken, Patrick, Professor Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, Visiting Professor, GU https://research.mandela.ac.za/Research-Chairs/Chair-in-Law-of-the-Sea-and-Development-in-Africa

From BI Norwegian Business School

Eftestøl, Ellen J. Professor in Law, Department of Law and Governance, BI Norwegian Business School, Visiting Professor University of Gothenburg, Ellen J. Eftestøl | BI

Parlov, Iva, Senior Lecturer, Department of Law and Governance, BI Norwegian Business School), https://no.linkedin.com/in/iva-parlov-2180a66b

From Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law

Sara Tesfai, Senior Executive Officer -Technical and administrative, Sara Tesfai - Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law (uio.no)

Doctoral students – 8

1. David Jersenius, University of Gothenburg
   Contract Law as a tool for Sustainability: The case of ships at anchor
2. Julia Johansson, University of Gothenburg
   Risk management in EU chemicals legislation
3. Emilie Yliheljo, University of Helsinki
   Regulation of emissions trading in the intersection of different regulatory regimes
4. Tupuna Manner, University of Helsinki
   TBA
5. Maximilian Huemer, University of Helsinki
   Passenger rights in the European Union and the case law of the CJEU – addressing ambiguities and interpretative shortcomings
6. Deniece Melissa Aiken, World Maritime University
   The role of international organisations in the domestication of international laws: a case study of the IMO
7. Setyawati Fitrianggraeni, World Maritime University
   TBA
8. Rebecca Pskowski, World Maritime University
   Development of institutional compliance mechanisms for international maritime treaties

Master students

Oslo – 12
Gothenburg – 14
Lund – 5

To apply for participation, send an e-mail to:

Gothenburg students
E-mail: Claes.Martinson@law.gu.se

Helsinki students
E-mail: ellen.j.eftestol@bi.no

Oslo students
E-mail: sara.tesfai@jus.uio.no