Michael Sturley
Par Brian Wambua
14 avril 2024
Nationality: American
Date of birth: 14th feb, 1955
Prof. Michael Sturley is an expert in maritime law and Supreme Court practice. Professor Sturley holds undergraduate and law degrees from Yale, and an English law degree from Oxford. After finishing his studies, he served as a law clerk to Judge Amalya L. Kearse of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, and to Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., of the United States Supreme Court. He practiced in New York with Sullivan & Cromwell before joining the Texas faculty in 1984.
He teaches and writes in the areas of admiralty, property, and commercial law, and co-directs the Supreme Court Clinic. He is active in the American Law Institute and the Maritime Law Association of the United States. He is the Rapporteur for the Comité Maritime International's Issues in Transport Law project, having served as a U.S. delegate to the Comité Maritime International's International Sub-Committee on Uniformity in the Law of Carriage of Goods by Sea.
He is also the Book Review Editor and a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce. Professor Sturley has lectured on admiralty and maritime subjects at conferences and law schools around the world, including as a visiting professor at the University of London.
Notable works
He is a co-author of The Rotterdam Rules (Sweet & Maxwell, 2d ed. 2020), Voyage Charters (Informa, 5th ed. 2022), and Admiralty and Maritime Law in the United States (Carolina Academic Press, 4th ed. 2020); and the author or co-author of numerous articles on admiralty law.
