John Livermore
John Livermore lives in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He retired in 2002 as Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law in the School of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of Tasmania after appointment in 1974. He hods an LL.B. (Bristol, 1959), a Diploma in Social Studies (Sheffield, 1961), an LL.M. (Tasmania) 1988 and a Professional Certificate in Arbitration (Adelaide) 2002. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce 1986-1988.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and a former Chairperson of the Tasmanian Branch 1992-1994. He is also a Fellow and Certified Practising Marketer of the Australian Marketing Institute, a Graded Arbitrator and Accredited Experienced Mediator, Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia and former Chair of the Tasmanian Chapter.
He has presented papers on commercial law at Australia and New Zealand universities and on maritime law to the International Congress of Comparative Law Montreal 1990, Athens 1994 Bristol 1998 and papers on aviation policy and law at the Asian Institute of Air and Space Law Taipei 1991, Beijing 1995, Seoul 1997, 2008 Shanghai 1999.
Since 1990 he has been Editor ofTransport: Laws of Australiawith contributing chapters on carriage by road, rail and sea and limitation of liability. Publications include the Australian reports in Ocean Bills of Lading: Traditional Forms, Substitutes and EDI Systems (editor Yiannapoulos, AN Kluwer Law International, 1998) andMultimodal Transport: Carrier Liability and Issues Related to Bills of Lading (editor Kiantou-Pampouki, A Bruylant, 2000). Other publications include chapters on road, rail, and air carriage in Palmer, NBailment(Law Book Company, 1979), Exemption Clauses and Implied Obligations in Contracts(Law Book Company, 1986) andMarketing Law(with Clarke, E Law Book Company, 1994).
He enjoys bushwalking, relaxing in the company of family and friends, travelling overseas whenever possible, unravelling historical mysteries, fossicking through second hand bookshops.
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