Professor Stephen Girvin is a tenured full Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Director of the Centre for Maritime Law (CML) since 2015, after a five-year period as Vice Dean (Research) in the Faculty. He has taught at Aberdeen, Nottingham, and Birmingham Universities and has been a Visiting Professor in several Universities throughout the world.

Professor Girvin is author of Carriage of Goods by Sea (Oxford, 2011) and a co-author Marsden’s Collisions at Sea (Sweet & Maxwell, 2016) and Carver on Charterparties (Sweet & Maxwell, 2017). He is a contributor to The Rotterdam Rules in the Asia-Pacific Region (Shojihomu, 2014), A New Convention for the Carriage of Goods by Sea: The Rotterdam Rules (Lawtext, 2009), and Liability Regimes in Contemporary Maritime Law (Informa, 2007). He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook, part of Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly (Informa), Singapore correspondent for the same journal, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Maritime Law (Lawtext).

He speaks regularly at international conferences and he is also a member of the Singapore Maritime Law Association and the British Maritime Law Association and a Supporting Member of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association.