INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE SEAFARER. “SAILING” IS HERE!!

Today Ince & Co’s Global Choir for Seafarers release a global choir version of Rod Stewart’s 1975 song ‘Sailing’. We are pleased to announce that at least one member of the IISTL contributed to the global choir.

‘Sailing’ is available from all the usual download platforms – iTunes link HERE – and its aim is to highlight the role of seafarers as keyworkers during this continuing pandemic. There is a donations page HERE. All monies donated through the page are split four ways and go directly to the seafaring charities from Virgin.

There is also a music video (HERE) and a series of testimonials which underline the struggles our seafarers face and have faced throughout the pandemic – ONE / TWO / THREE / FOUR / FIVE / SIX / SEVEN / EIGHT / NINE.

See the inside story HERE from Tradewinds.

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Professor Simon Baughen

Professor Simon Baughen was appointed as Professor of Shipping Law in September 2013 (previously Reader at the University of Bristol Law School). Simon Baughen studied law at Oxford and practised in maritime law for several years before joining academia. His research interests lie mainly in the field of shipping law, but also include the law of trusts and the environmental law implications of the activities of multinational corporations in the developing world. Simon's book on Shipping Law, has run to seven editions (soon to be eight) and is already well-known to academics and students alike as by far the most learned and approachable work on the subject. Furthermore, he is now the author of the very well-established practitioner's work Summerskill on Laytime. He has an extensive list of publications to his name, including International Trade and the Protection of the Environment, and Human Rights and Corporate Wrongs - Closing the Governance Gap. He has also written and taught extensively on commercial law, trusts and environmental law. Simon is a member of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, a University Research Centre within the School of Law, and he currently teaches at Swansea on the LLM in:Carriage of Goods by Sea, Land and Air; Charterparties Law and Practice; International Corporate Governance.

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