- Young CMI & Essay Prize
Young CMI
Get involved in Young CMI
The CMI wishes to attract young maritime lawyers to the work of the CMI and its affiliated National Maritime Law Associations (NMLA) for the unification of maritime and transport law.
CMI’s Standing Committee for Young Lawyers (Young CMI) ensures that CMI events have items in the programme particularly aimed at young lawyers. We (help) organize sessions in which young lawyers can contribute as speaker or participant to debate on various topics in maritime and transport law. We also (help) organize part of the social programme, with young lawyers in mind.
As CMI is itself an association of associations, you cannot truly become a member of Young CMI. But you may consider yourself part of Young CMI if you are a young member of any NMLA affiliated with the CMI.
The kick-off of Young CMI took place at the 2008 CMI Conference at Athens, where both a breakfast seminar and a ‘night on the town’ were staged. Since then Young CMI sessions have been included in all CMI events.
Young CMI also wants to encourage and inspire young maritime lawyers from NMLA’s around the world to organize their own events, e.g. on a regional basis. A good example is the joint initiative of the NMLA’s of Belgium, England, France, Germany and The Netherlands to organize an annual two-day seminar for young maritime lawyers. Each of these MLA’s in turn hosts the event in its country each year. The 10th edition took place in Paris in June 2015. The United States is known to have a very active young lawyers group. We encourage others to do the same.
Become a member of the CMI LinkedIn group – Comité Maritime International (CMI) – to find out more about CMI activities and developments.
CMI’s Standing Committee: current members:
| Surname | First Name | Company | Country | |
| Timagenis | Ioannis | Timagenis Law Firm | Greece | Chair |
| Søndergaard | Harald | HAFNIA Law Firm | Denmark | Deputy Chair |
| Backden | Paula | Vinge Law Firm | Sweden | EXCO Rep |
| Albors | Jaime | Albors Galiano Portales | Spain | |
| Carlson | Kierstan | Blank Rome | US | |
| Cassola | Filippo | ADVANT Nctm | Italy | |
| Franco-Zarate | Javier | Franco & Abogados Asociados | Colombia | |
| Hoepel | Robert | Smallegange | Netherlands | |
| Kasahara | Ryoichi | Abe & Sakata Legal Professional Corporation | Japan | |
| Mudric | Miso | Professor at University of Zagreb | Croatia | |
| Musi | Massimiliano | Professor at University of Bologna | Italy | |
| Roussel | Morgane | Richemont Delviso | France |
Young CMI Presentations 2015 Istanbul Colloquium
Chaired by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kübra Yetis Samli
A Maritime Miscellany
- Vannessia Kamesha Stewart, Winner of the 2014 CMI Prize for Best Overall Performance at IMLI The Fair Treatment Of Seafarers In Cases Of Abandonment A Caribbean Perspective
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kübra Yetis Samli, University of Istanbul Ship Mortgage Vs. Maritime Lien What Are The Changes In Favour Of The Mortgagee In Turkish Law
- Jaime Soroa, Shipowners P&I, with Edmund Sweetman, barrister, Dublin and Barcelona – Nairobi (Wreck Removal) Convention; practical implications in the near term and the perspective of the P& I Underwriters
- Z. Bahar Sayhan, LLM, attorney, Istanbul – Ship Arrests and Relevant Recent Developments in Turkish Law
Documents of Interest
(Degree of) Fault – “Recklessly and with Knowledge that damage would probably result”
Young CMI Presentations 2014 Hamburg Conference
To view the video’s of the presentations, please sea Maritime Miscellany on the
https://comitemaritime.org/publications-documents/videos/
