PhD Roundtable - Vincenzo Battistella

Sustainability clauses in maritime contracts

Abstract:

The project analyzes the legal implications of sustainable development pertaining to maritime law, particularly focusing on maritime contracts.

The leading research question will consider the implications of new impending contractual obligations emerging from the necessity of preventing air pollution from ships and the protection or marine environment, regarded as common interests of the international community.

The aim is to evaluate various relevant aspects of contract law, such as the interpretation of sustainability clauses in maritime contracts in order to assess their compliance with international green requirements.

Biography

Vincenzo holds a LLM from the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna. Prior to joining the University of Copenhagen, Vincenzo was a research fellow in Transport Law, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento. He has also been employed by the Department of Legal Studies at the University of Pisa to teach Maritime Law at the Naval Academy of Livorno. There, he was a research fellow in Maritime Law in the European Project SICOMAR plus, Interreg V-A Cooperation programme Italy-France about the safety of navigation in international straits with specific regard to the application of vessel traffic systems in the Mouth of Bonifacio. Vincenzo’s areas of interest are maritime law, international law of the sea and transport law, with specific regard to contract law, obligations and sustainability. Presently he is member of the research group SHOC - Shipping and Ocean Law Group and internal researcher in the project GreenLaSH - Green Transition and the law of Shipping at CEPRI, Faculty of Law of the University of Copenhagen.