The Conference explores the relationship between risk and technology and its place in the theory and practice in trade, maritime, and marine law.
The Conference explores the relationship between risk and technology and its place in the theory and practice in trade, maritime, and marine law. Evolving technology and risk creates new challenges and opportunities for trade, transport and the environment. In the trade and transport front, technologies such as blockchain (distributed ledgers), artificial intelligence, big-data analytics, and behavioural analytics impact the way of doing business and require companies to adopt new business models and/or processes. Alongside, the economic (dis)integration caused by conflicting trends of greater interconnection and isolation creates new risks for various stakeholders engaged in international trade. The evolving technologies and risks pose unprecedented legal challenges that, in many instances, require revisiting the law and adoption of new governance techniques. In the environmental domain, technologies such as geo-engineering, sensors and related data analytics, modern shipbuilding techniques, and bio-prospecting enhance States' capacities to prevent degradation of the marine environment and to enforce legal rules and standards. However, technological advances bring new threats to delicate marine environments, such as ice-covered areas, where new trading routes are being developed. In this context, how can law manage these emerging risks and make use of technological advances? And what theoretical and practical challenges is law facing in this domain?
08:45 - 09:00 Welcome
Per Cramer, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
09:00 - 09:30 Keynote
Rhidian Thomas, Swansea University, UK
09:30 - 10:45 Session 1: Law-Making and Dispute Resolution Processes in Trade and Transport
Panel Chair – Trisha Rajput, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Economic Sanctions and Access to Justice
Carolina Dackö, Mannheimer Swartling, Sweden
The UN Arms Trade Treaty: A Multilateral Trade and Security Treaty Not Regulated by International Trade Law
Abdulmalik Altamimi, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia
Trade Restrictions in the Name of National Security: Is the World Trade Organization at Risk?
Trisha Rajput
Air and Marine Accident Investigation Records in Commercial Arbitration and Litigation.
Jason Chuah, City, University of London, UK. Guest Professor GU
The Meaning of ‘Accident’ under the Montreal Convention in Light of CJEU Jurisprudence
Olena Bokareva, Lund University, Sweden
Divide and Conquer or Unite to Trade: Belt and Road Initiative in Perspective
Abhinayan Basu Bal and Trisha Rajput, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 Session 2: Evolving Regulatory and Contractual Frameworks
Panel Chair – Jason Chuah
Third Party Direct Rights of Action Against Insurers Under UK Law and International Maritime Liability Conventions
Rhidian Thomas
Salvage Agreement and Contract Salvage: Risk Dynamics in Salvage Law
Proshanto K. Mukherjee
Challenges Regarding the Carriage of Goods and Passengers by Sea and the Protection of Health Under the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jonatan Echebarria Fernández, City, University of London, UK
International Shipping: Who Levels the Playing Field?
Ellen J. Eftestøl and Emilie Yliheljo, University of Helsinki, Finland
Risk in Transporting Dangerous Goods via RoRo and RoPax shipping
Jonas Flodén and Johan Woxenius, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
On the Relevance of Addressing the Real Issues Spite the Fascination Over the Fact that Small Ships can become Big Boats
Claes Martinson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 – 14:00 Session 3: Deployment of New Technology in Shipping
Panel Chair: Proshanto K. Mukherjee, Dalian Maritime University, China
Smart Contractual Networks in the Carriage of Goods by Sea
Livashnee Naidoo, University of Glasgow, UK
Digital assets as objects of property rights: finding the ‘relationship’ for negotiable transport documents in digital environments
Abhinayan Basu Bal
Autonomous Shipping: Some Reflections on Navigational Rights and Rescue at Sea
Martin Leopardi Ratcovich, Stockholm University, Sweden
The International Regulatory Framework of MASS disruption
Maximo Q. Mejia, World Maritime University, Sweden
Autonomous wrecks
Jhonnie Mikael Kern, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Maritime and Aviation Law: A Relational Retrospect and Prospect on Unmanned Ships and Aircraft
Huiru Liu, Chinese Academy of Civil Aviation Science and Technology, China
14:00 – 14:15 Coffee Break
14:15 – 15:15 Session 4: Regulating Risk in the Marine Environment
Panel Chair – Gabriela Argüello, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Shipping and the Ecosystem Approach
David Langlet, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
A New Treaty for Marine Protected Areas in The High Seas – Consequences for the Shipping Sector and Likely Role of the IMO
Niels Krabbe, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Governing Technological Climate Revolution: Geoengineering Research and the Arctic Marine Environment
Gabriela Argüello and Julia Johansson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Ship Exhaust Gas Cleaning 'Scrubber' Technology - Bad News for the Marine Environment
Ida-Maja Hassellöv, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Technologies for Low-Carbon Shipping: Overcoming Perceived Risk through Green Financing Frameworks
Pia Rebelo, City, University of London, UK
15:15 – 15:45 Concluding Remarks
Lars-Göran Malmberg, David Langlet and Abhinayan Basu Bal, University of Gothenburg, Sweden