WANG Feng, Alex
Research Fellow
lawwang@nus.edu.sg
+65 6601 8994

Dr Wang Feng was until December 2018 an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law at Dalian Maritime University (DMU). He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in CML from July 2015 to April 2017. Prior to this, he obtained his PhD degree from University of Exeter in Marine Insurance Law, under the supervision of Professor Robert Merkin. He obtained his LLM degree in Maritime Law (with Merit) from the University of Southampton and took his first degree in Law (LLB (first class)) and in International Shipping Company Management (BBA) from DMU. He was the winner of the BILA (British Insurance Law Association) Article Prize in 2014 and won the first UK Maritime and Commercial Law Mooting Competition on behalf of University of Exeter.

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Scholars have argued that maritime custom and usages forms an important origin of modern maritime law by scholars. However, compared to other synonymous research on transnational commercial law, custom and usages in maritime law have not yet been fully explored. The existence of the so-called lex maritima is still sceptical and the function of maritime custom and usages as an industrial self-regulation instrument is not clear, especially in the new technology era. How to overcome the tension between positive law and maritime custom and usages is still debatable and the codification of maritime custom and usages is still problematic.

Based upon an empirical, historical and comparative study, Wang Feng's research will provide a full picture of the theories of maritime custom and usages, its historical antecedents, the dilemma of its present application, and its future development.

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