Michael F. STURLEY



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Michael Sturley is the Fannie Coplin Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas Law School, where he teachsinter aliamaritime law and commercial law courses. He received his undergraduate education at Yale, and has law degrees from Yale and Oxford.

Prof. Sturley served as the Senior Adviser on the United States Delegation to Working Group III (Transport Law) of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL); as a member of the UNCITRAL Secretariat’s Expert Group on Transport Law; and as the Rapporteur for the International Sub-Committee on Issues of Transport Law of the Comité Maritime International (CMI) and for the CMI’s associated Working Group. In addition, he is a proctor member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States (where he is active on several committees); a titulary member of the CMI; a member of the American Law Institute; and the Book Review Editor of The Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce.

Prof. Sturley is the author, with Prof. Tomotaka Fujita and Prof. Gertjan van der Ziel, of THE ROTTERDAM RULES: THE U.N. CONVENTION ON CONTRACTS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CARRIAGE OF GOODS WHOLLY OR PARTLY BY SEA (Sweet & Maxwell 2010), and numerous articles and book chapters on the Rotterdam Rules. He has also written extensively on other maritime subjects; has lectured on maritime law at law schools and conferences in the United States and around the world; and has been consulted in maritime cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, in many of the lower federal courts, and in state and foreign courts.

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Texas Law School, Prof. Sturley was associated with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. He also served as a law clerk to Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., at the United States Supreme Court, and to Judge Amalya L. Kearse, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York.

 Michael F. STURLEY

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