New
Maritime Law Institute launched at law school
Institute will be
center for study of maritime, ocean transport law
FEB. 17, 2006 - - A new institute at the Charleston School of
Law will serve as a center for the study and research of maritime
law with a focus on the law of intermodal and ocean transportation,
Dean Richard Gershon announced today.
The new Charleston Maritime Law Institute (CMLI) is a collaborative
effort involving students, professors and leading maritime lawyers
and professionals from around the Southeast, Gershon said.
"The Charleston Maritime
Law Institute will allow the law school to take advantage
of a competitive advantage we have - - the expertise of dozens
of talented maritime lawyers in and around the area," Gershon
said.
"With Charleston having the fourth busiest container port
in the nation - and the busiest in the Southeast - we'd be missing
the boat if we didn't focus a special program on the critical
study and development of the next generation of maritime and admiralty
law. Our new Institute is the perfect solution to work as partners
with all of the professionals and industries around the Port of
Charleston."
In addition to promoting maritime legal studies at the school,
CMLI will provide programs and seminars periodically on maritime
matters. It also will publish a periodical bulletin, edited by
law students, on significant maritime issues. The Maritime Law
Bulletin's first issue was published this month. (View: http://www.charlestonlaw.org/institute/malabu.htm).
"We envision the new Institute as not only a critical teaching
component for law students and lawyers interested in maritime
ocean transportation law, but also as a forum for the maritime
industry at large to discuss and debate critical issues of maritime
and ocean shipping policies, said Charleston lawyer Gordon D.
Schreck. He chairs the Institute's new distinguished advisory
board of local and regional maritime lawyers and professionals.
Members include:
Attorneys: E. Paul Gibson, Marvin D. Infinger;
Philip L. Lawrence, Douglas M. Muller, Paul F. Tecklenburg, all
of Charleston; and Robert S. Glenn Jr., Savannah, Ga.; Carter
T. Gunn, Norfolk, Va.; Prof. John Paul Jones, Richmond, Va.; Michael
T. Moore, Miami, Fla.; James F. Moseley Jr., Jacksonville, Fla.;
J. Harold Seagle, Wilmington, N.C.; M. Hamilton Whitman Jr., Baltimore,
Md.; and JoAnne Zawitoski, Baltimore, Md.
Non-lawyer advisers are all from Charleston:
Don H. Brown, Bernard S. Groseclose Jr., John F. Hassell IIL,
Kenneth Riley, Whitemarsh S. Smith III, and retired Admiral Albert
J. Baciocco Jr.
The Institute's resident director is R.
Randall Bridwell, professor of law at the Charleston School
of Law.
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