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 conducted research in international maritime law and contributed to the CML–CMI Judicial Decisions on International Conventions Database. 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 analysis.
His research interests lie in maritime law, particularly carriage of goods by sea, container shipping, and issues concerning emerging technologies, environmental regulation, and international trade. He has published in leading journals, including Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly and the Journal of International Maritime Law, and is contributing a chapter to 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 also holds LLM degrees in Maritime Law and Private Law, an LLB, and a BA in International Relations.
Dr Yilmaz welcomes applications for PhD supervision in maritime law.