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Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson LLM

Associate Professor, Informa Research Fellow in Maritime and Commercial Law

Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson is Informa Associate Professor in Maritime and Commercial Law within Southampton Law School at the University of Southampton.

I am lucky to be able to explore many aspects of maritime, commercial and insurance law in my research.

Juris kandidat (LL.M.) (Stockholm) 1995; LL.M. in Maritime Law (Soton) 2004; Cert HE Languages (Soton) 2008; PhD (Soton) 2016

Johanna is the Informa Associate Professor in Maritime and Commercial Law.

After completing service as a tingsnotarie (Junior Judge) in her native Sweden, Johanna specialised in the support of law reform by international organisations, spending several years as a legal advisor with the UN and with the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

She has been with the University of Southampton since 2004, initially as a researcher with the Institute of Maritime Law and since 2006 on a research position funded by Informa, the maritime and commercial law publisher. Johanna’s research covers maritime and commercial law, insurance law and dispute resolution. She is the editor of Lloyd’s Law Reporter and Shipping and Trade Law as well as The Ratification of Maritime Conventions. She takes a particular interest in jurisdictions undergoing comprehensive development and has co-edited two books on Maritime Law in China and Insurance Law in China and co-authored two editions of Singapore Arbitration Legislation with Professor Rob Merkin. She completed her doctoral thesis on fraudulent insurance claims under English law in 2016. Her publications have been cited by the courts in Singapore and Australia and by the Law Commissions of England and Wales and Scotland. She received the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2009 and the Vice Chancellor's Award in 2011.

Research

Responsibilities

Publications

Teaching

Contact

Research interests

Marine insurance, insurance, carriage of goods by sea, enforcement of maritime claims, law of the sea.

Affiliate research groups

Insurance Law Research Group, Institute of Maritime Law

Johanna is also an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the Society of Legal Scholars, the Swedish Maritime Law Association and the Swedish Insurance Association and a freelance lawyer-linguist with the European Central Bank. She has acted as a consultant in commercial disputes, EU sponsored law reform projects and (pro bono) the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and non-governmental organisations.

Translation of the judgment of the Cour de Cassation in In Zone Brands. (This translation is not an official one and reliance is at the user's own risk).

Johanna is a General Editor for the aviation law website AviationLaw.EU which is a free, in-depth source of reference to all those with an interest in aviation law.

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Editorial duties

Editor, Shipping & Trade Law

Co-editor, Lloyd's Law Reporter (weekly case updates available through i-law)

Contributing editor, [2007] Lloyd's Rep PN (on i-law)

Occasional contributor, Lloyd's Law Reports and Lloyd's Law Reports Insurance and Reinsurance

Articles

Books

Merkin, R., Hjalmarsson, J., & Bek, M. (2016). Singapore arbitration legislation. (Lloyd's Commercial Law Library). London, UK: Informa.
Hjalmarsson, J., & Zhang, J. (Eds.) (Accepted/In press). Maritime law in China. Abingdon, GB: Routledge.
Hjalmarsson, J., & Huang, D. (Eds.) (2014). Insurance law in China. (Contemporary Commercial Law). Abingdon, GB: Routledge.
Merkin, R., Bugra, A., Hjalmarsson, J., & Lavelle, J. (2014). Marine Insurance Legislation, 5th edition. (Lloyd's Shipping Law Library). Routledge.
Merkin, R., & Hjalmarsson, J. (2009). Singapore arbitration legislation - annotated. London, UK: Informa.
Merkin, R., & Hjalmarsson, J. (2007). Compendium of Insurance Law. (Insurance Law Library). London, UK: Informa.
Hjalmarsson, J. (Ed.) (1990). The ratification of maritime conventions. (Lloyd's Shipping Law Library). London, GB: Informa.

Book Chapters

Conferences

Hjalmarsson, J. (2015). Adding insolvency to injury - a thought experiment on the rights of consumers, third parties and flood victims. Paper presented at Future Directions of Consumer Flood Insurance in the UK, United Kingdom.
Hjalmarsson, J. (2015). Adding insolvency to injury - a thought experiment on the rights of consumers, third parties and flood victims. In J. Hjalmarsson (Ed.), Future Directions of Consumer Flood Insurance in the UK - Reflections upon the creation of Flood Re (pp. 41-48). Southampton, GB: University of Southampton.
Hjalmarsson, J. (2014). The Spot market and chaotic contract formation – a few reflections on a challenge to modern legal systems. Paper presented at Chinese and English Maritime Law Conference, United Kingdom.
Bek, M., & Hjalmarsson, J. (2013). Consumer flood insurance - some thoughts for an emerging consumer catastrophe insurance market. Paper presented at Chinese Insurance Law Conference, United Kingdom.
Bek, M., & Hjalmarsson, J. (2013). Future availability of consumer flood insurance in the United Kingdom. Poster session presented at Science and Engineering of the Natural Environment, United Kingdom.

Creative Media and Artefacts

Ntovas, A. X. M. (Other), Tsimplis, M. N. (Other), Hjalmarsson, J. (Other), & Koenig, B. (Other). (2015). Qui controle la mer?. Digital or Visual Products

Reports

Hjalmarsson, J. (2018). Maritime Law in 2017: a review of developments in case law. London: Informa Law.
Bek, M., Bugra, A., Hjalmarsson, J., & Lista, A. (2013). Future availability of flood insurance in UK: A report on legal aspects of the solutions adopted in Australia, Iceland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Turkey, with conclusions. Southampton, GB: University of Southampton.

Thesis

Hjalmarsson, J. (2016). Fraudulent insurance claims: legal definition and judicial consequences

Working Papers

Hjalmarsson, J. (Ed.), Bek, M., Davey, J., Hjalmarsson, J., Hornstein, D. T., & Surminski, S. (2015). Future directions of consumer flood insurance in the UK - reflections upon the creation of Flood Re. University of Southampton.
Bek, M., & Hjalmarsson, J. (2014). Comments to the Law Commission on the draft warranties causation clause, 9 December 2014. Southampton, GB: University of Southampton.
Hjalmarsson, J., Bursich, A., Chileshe, B., & Insurance Law Research Group (2014). Consultation response to HM Treasury on the Draft Insurance Contracts Bill on Warranties and Late Payment. Southampton, GB: University of Southampton.
Hjalmarsson, J., Bek, M., Adewale, O., Barnes, D., Bursich, A., Chileshe, B., & Insurance Law Research Group (2014). Consultation response to the Draft Insurance Contracts Bill. Insurance Law Research Group, University of Southampton.
Hjalmarsson, J., Barnes, D., Bursich, A., Chileshe, B., Malekos, A., & Insurance Law Research Group (2014). Consultation response to the Draft Insurance Contracts Bill on Warranties and Fraudulent Claims in Group Insurance. Southampton, GB: University of Southampton.
Bek, M., Davey, J., Hjalmarsson, J., & Richards, K. (2014). Written evidence on the Insurance Bill, 27 November 2014. Southampton, GB: Insurance Law Research Group.
Hjalmarsson, J., Bek, M., Bugra, A., Lista, A., & Insurance Law Research Group (2013). Response to the Green Paper on the insurance of natural and man-made disasters, issued Strasbourg, 16.4.2013, COM(2013) 213 final. Brussels, BE: EU Commission.

LLM: Marine Insurance (LAWS6065)

LLM: Insurance Contract Law (LAWS3088)

LLM: Insurance Law (LAWS6099)

Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson
Southampton Law School, Building 4 University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ UK

Room Number: 4/4013

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