Martin George joined the Law School as the CSET Lecturer in Property Law in September 2009, having previously been a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, and a College Lecturer at Hertford College, Oxford. Martin is a graduate of Leicester and Nottingham Universities, and is currently completing a doctorate at Birmingham. His major research interest is in the conflict of laws and, within that, on the private international law aspects of the carriage of goods by sea. He is also interested in elements of real property law. Martin teaches Property Law A (Land Law) and B (Equity and Trusts), and is responsible for mooting.

Selected Publications

• ‘Service Contracts, Carriage by Air and the Brussels I Regulation’ (2010) 126 Law Quarterly Review 30 (with J Harris) {+}

Analysis of the decision in C-204/08 Peter Rehder v Air Baltic Corporation.

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• ‘The Rise and Fall of Adverse Possession’ [2009] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 427 {+}

Note on the High Court’s judgment in Port of London Authority v Ashmore (The Atrato) [2009] EWHC 954 (Ch).

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• ‘The Law Applicable to Torts Committed On Board Vessels in Foreign Territorial Waters’ (2009) 15 Journal of International Maritime Law 13 {+}

Note on the decision in Hornsby v James Fisher Rumic Ltd (The Coastal Spider) [2008] EWHC 1944 (QB).

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• ‘Cheshire, North & Fawcett: Private International Law’ (book review) [2009] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 265 {+}

Review of the 14th edn, 2008. From the conclusion: The previous edition of Cheshire, North & Fawcett spawned citations in at least twenty-six reported cases, from Raiffeisen Zentralbank Osterreich AG v Five Star General Trading LLC (The Mount I) [2000] All ER (Comm) 897; [2000] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 684 to the recent decision in Westminster City Council v C [2008] EWCA Civ 198. It informed the arguments and judgments in some of the most significant conflicts cases in the last eight years, including the doomed reference to the European Court of Justice from the Court of Appeal in Owusu v Jackson [2002] EWCA Civ 877. There is no reason to suspect that the fourteenth edition will not be at least as popular with those who make and interpret the law. In the academic and student markets, the proliferation of private international law textbooks and monographs in recent years means that Cheshire, North & Fawcett faces stiffer competition than it has done at any other point since the publication of the first edition in 1935, and yet the rigorous scholarship invested into the fourteenth edition undoubtedly means that it will continue to be regarded as a necessity. Indeed, with the price of the paperback version set at £39.95, this reviewer would regard it as more than that: pound for pound, it is simply the best generalist work on English private international law that money can buy. Go forth and purchase.

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• ‘Choice of Law in Maritime Torts’ (2007) 3 Journal of Private International Law 137 {+}

Abstract: What system of law will be applied to an action brought before an English court in respect of a tort committed in foreign territorial waters, or a claim for personal injury resultant from a collision on the high seas? A tortious act occurring on any given vessel has multiple contacts for the identification of a governing law. The state to which the ship belongs normally has an interest in the ship and the goods onboard her. Consequently, the law of the ship’s flag is one option for determining questions of liability, but which ship’s flag will govern matters in a collision? This article critically examines the choice of law rules applicable to maritime torts, both in a historical context and the legal regime currently applied by English courts, as well as considering the potential impact of the proposal for an EU Regulation on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations (“Rome II”).

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• ‘The Present Situation of Private International Law in England’ (2005) 6 European Legal Forum I-257, I-271 {+}

Brief overview of the conflict of laws as an academic subject at English universities (part of an EU Commission project).

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Reports and Practitioner Works

• 'The AG Opinion in West Tankers' (2008) 4 Arbitration International 18 [HTML]
• National Report for England and Wales on the Application of the Brussels I Regulation in the Member States (2005) (154pp) (with A Dickinson and J van de Velden) (Study JLS/C4/2005/03) [PDF]

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