The Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law is pleased to offer this expert international forum for the analysis of contemporary and comparative aspects of commercial insurance law.

The Colloquium will be held at Swansea University and will convene a forum of professional and academic experts.

Programme

For commercial organisations certainty and stability are key. Unexpected events and changes in economic and geopolitical conditions often threaten to destabilise such organisations; one of the most effective risk mitigation tools they have at their disposal is insurance.

This Colloquium will look in depth at both contemporary developments in various aspects of commercial insurance law, and also at their relationship with market practice and emerging trends. We also propose to comment on more doctrinal aspects of commercial insurance law in the light of recent judicial developments.

As ever, the Colloquium convenes a forum of expert speakers, chairpersons and delegates, with the object of subjecting the law to informed debate and critical analysis.

The programme will include the following:

1. AI and Insurance Intermediaries

2. Insurtech - Capable of Delivering all of its Promises?

3. Evolution of D & O Cover

4. Cyber Risk Insurance and IT Providers' Liability

5. Direct Action Against P & I Clubs

6. Insuring War and Political Risks

7. What is Special About SME Insurance?

8. Construction of Promissory Warranties in Commercial Insurance Contracts

9. Marine Insurance at the US Supreme Court - A View from the Other Side of the Atlantic

10. Fair Presentation of Risk: Evolving in the Right Manner?

11. Conceptualising Fraud in Insurance Law

12. Anti-Assignment Clauses

13. Rethinking Subrogation

14. When Does an Insurance Payout Discharge a Wrongdoer's Liability to the Assured?

The programme will occupy six sessions over two days. Thereafter the session topic(s) are made open to debate. Delegates will be provided with a colloquium delegate pack containing speaker papers.

Chairpersons and Speakers will include:

* Professor Dr Olivier Brand (University of Mannheim)
* Michael Biltoo (Partner, Kennedys, London)
* Celso De Azevedo (Barrister, Enterprise Chambers)
* Professor Simon Baughen (IISTL, Swansea University)
* Paul Dean (HFW, Global Head of Shipping)
* Professor James Devenney (Head of School, University of Reading)
* Peter MacDonald Eggers KC (7 King’s Bench Walk, London)
* Richard Eveleigh (Insurance Product Creation Expert)
* Professor Ozlem Gurses (King’s College London)
* Neil Handerson (Senior Executive, Gard)
* Angela Nicholas (IISTL, Swansea University)
* Sir Bernard Rix (Former Lord Justice of Appeal, International Judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court) (TBC)
* Professor Francis Rose Senior Research Fellow (University of Oxford)
* Professor Barış Soyer (Director, IISTL, Swansea University)
* Professor Andrew Tettenborn (IISTL, Swansea University)
* Nichola Warrender KC (Quadrant Chambers)
* Richard Sarll (Barrister, 7 KBW)
* Professor Michael Sturley (University of Texas, Austin)
* Dr Jia Wang (IISTL, Swansea University)
* Associate Professor Jinlei Zhang (Dalian Maritime University)
* Associate Professor Rui Zheng (Shanghai Maritime University)

International Colloquium on Commercial Insurance Law