DCL (Oxon), MA (Oxon), LLM (Harvard), FAAL

Martin Davies is Admiralty Law Institute Professor of Maritime Law at Tulane University Law School in New Orleans and Director of the Tulane Maritime Law Center. He is an Overseas Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and a Titulary Member of the Comité Maritime International (CMI).

Before joining Tulane, he was Harrison Moore Professor of Law at The University of Melbourne in Australia and before that, he taught at Monash University, The University of Western Australia, and Nottingham University. He has also been a visiting professor at universities in China, Italy, Azerbaijan, and Singapore.

He is author (or co-author) of books on maritime law, international trade law, conflict of laws, and the law of torts. He has also published many journal articles on these topics. He has extensive practical experience as a consultant for over 35 years on maritime matters and general international litigation and arbitration, in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the USA. He is presently a Senior Consultant with the firm of Clyde & Co.