Filippo Lorenzon is a Professor of Maritime and Commercial Law at the University of Southampton and the former Director of the Institute of Maritime Law (2010-2014). He has been a Visiting Lecturer at several overseas universities and international training centres. He has an LL.D. (Trieste, 1999) and an LL.M. (Soton, 2000) and is fully qualified as an avvocato in Italy, and as a (n.p.) solicitor in England and Wales. Prof. Lorenzon is a Member of the ICC (UK) Committee on Transport and Logistics, the Italian Maritime Law Association (AIDiM), the British Maritime Law Association (BMLA), the European Maritime Law Organisation (EMLO) and the International Bar Association (IBA). He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists. Prof. Lorenzon has been working with leading maritime and commercial law firms, in London, Genoa and Venice, and regularly advises in his areas of expertise. He is currently a Consultant with Campbell Johnston Clark Ltd in London. He is also a Senior Legal Advisor for the World Bank. His research interests are mainly in the domains of international trade law, carriage by air, carriage of goods by sea, European maritime law and comparative private law. Since January 2010, Filippo has been leading the IML contribution of an important research project funded by the European Commission to assess the impact of enforcing the 2006 Maritime Labour Convention and Directive 2009/13/EC within the EU. He has also contributed to the ICC UK submissions to the Incoterms 2010 drafting group. He has Authored or co-authored several key works in maritime law such as CIF and FOB Contracts, 5th edition (London 2012), The Rotterdam Rules: a practical annotation (London, 2009), The Law of Yachts and Yacthing (London, 2012) and The Sale of Ships under the Singapore Form (Singapore, 2013).
