Rate My Professor B. Soyer

Professor Baris Soyer is Professor of Commercial and Maritime Law at Swansea University’s Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law. He holds a BA from Ankara University, an LLM, and a PhD from the University of Southampton awarded in 2000. Following a period as a lecturer at the University of Exeter, he joined Swansea University as a lecturer in 2001, advancing to senior lecturer in 2004, reader in 2006, and professor in 2009. Since October 2010, he has been Director of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law. Additional appointments include Director of Shipping and Trade Law Unit since 2015, Director of Taught Masters Degrees since 2004, Director of International Partnerships since 2012, and Head of Postgraduate Legal Studies Department from 2013 to 2015. He serves as a visiting professor at Jimmei University, Lorraine University, Dalian Maritime University, Shanghai Maritime University, University of Exeter, and University of Queensland. Professor Soyer teaches modules on Admiralty Law, Marine Insurance Law, and Charterparties: Law and Practice in the LLM programme.

Professor Soyer’s principal research interests centre on insurance law, particularly marine insurance, extending to maritime law, commercial law, and the law of obligations. He authored Warranties in Marine Insurance (Routledge, 2001; second edition 2006; third edition 2016) and Marine Insurance Fraud (Informa Law, 2014). He has edited and contributed to numerous volumes, including Commercial Insurance Law: Emerging Trends and New Perspectives (Informa Law, 2026), Insurability of Emerging Risks: Law, Theory and Practice (Hart Publishing, 2025, with Gürses), Disruptive Technologies, Climate Change and Shipping (Informa Law, 2022, with Tettenborn), and Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Shipping: Developing the International Legal Framework (Hart Publishing, 2021, with Tettenborn). His articles appear in prestigious journals such as the Law Quarterly Review, Cambridge Law Journal, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, Journal of Business Law, and Berkeley Journal of International Law. Awards include the Cavendish Book Prize in 2001 and British Insurance Law Association Book Prizes in 2002 and 2015, the only author to receive the latter twice. He edited the Journal of International Maritime Law from 2002 to 2018 and serves on editorial boards of the Journal of International Maritime Law, Shipping and Trade Law, Baltic Maritime Law Quarterly, and the International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook. The second edition of Warranties in Marine Insurance influenced reforms leading to the Insurance Act 2015, as cited by the English and Scottish Law Commissions.