Dr. Michael Sturley

Biography

Professor Sturley holds undergraduate law degrees from Yale and an English law degree from Oxford. After finishing his studies, he served as a law clerk for Judge Amalya L. Kearse of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York and for Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court. He practiced law in New York at Sullivan & Cromwell before joining the Texas faculty in 1984. Professor Sturley is active in the American Law Institute, where he has worked on property and commercial law projects, and has held various positions within the Maritime Law Association of the United States, including serving on the Carriage of Goods Committee and the Uniformity Committees. He co-chairs the Ad Hoc Marine Insurance Study Group and is the Reporter for the Ad Hoc Study Group on Liability Rules. Additionally, he has served as a U.S. delegate to the Comité Maritime International's International Sub-Committee on Uniformity of Law for the Carriage of Goods by Sea. He is also a Book Review Editor and a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce. Professor Sturley has lectured on admiralty and maritime subjects at conferences and law schools around the world, including a visiting professorship at the University of London.

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