About
Dr Mustafa Yilmaz is a Lecturer in Law at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool. Before joining Liverpool, he held a Research Fellowship at the Centre for Maritime Law, National University of Singapore, where he contributed to high-level research in international maritime law. He holds a PhD in Maritime Law from The City Law School, City St George’s, University of London. His doctoral research recontextualises containerisation in laws relating to the international carriage of goods by sea, challenging mode-based legal thinking and advancing a container-centred theoretical framework for contractual and regulatory contexts.
He has also taught at The City Law School as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, served as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, and worked as a Research Assistant at Ankara University.
Mustafa’s research interests lie in maritime law, with a particular focus on containerisation, carrier liability, and emerging technologies in shipping. He has published widely, including in Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly and the Journal of International Maritime Law, as well as a chapter in the forthcoming Elgar Encyclopaedia of Maritime and Oceans Law. He is also the author of Legal Aspects of Autonomous Ships (Yetkin Publishing, 2022), the first monograph dedicated to the legal implications of autonomous shipping.
He holds LLM degrees in Maritime Law (Ankara University) and in Private Law (Social Sciences University of Ankara), together with an LLB from Ankara University and a BA in International Relations from Anadolu University.