international maritime law. Yuanjun earned his LLB in 1998 and his LLM in 2001
from DMU and gained his PhD from Tsinghua University in 2011. He attended a
short-term training programme at the World Maritime University in 2016 and
conducted an academic visit in the Institute of Maritime Law at the University of
Southampton from August 2018 to August 2019. Yuanjun has published a number
of articles on maritime law in both English and Chinese academic journals, some of
which were awarded prizes by different academic institutions. He has been both
person-in-charge and participant in several research projects concerning maritime or
shipping law.
Jingchen Xu is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Maritime Law,
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law. She obtained her SJD and LLM in
Admiralty (with distinction) from Tulane University Law School and her LLB in
Maritime Law from Dalian Maritime University. At Tulane, Jingchen was a Senior
Editor for Volumes 40–41 of the Tulane Maritime Law Journal and a research
assistant to Professor Robert Force. Jingchen’s work has been published in the
American Bankruptcy Law Journal and the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce, and she has presented papers at several conferences. She has interned with the
American P & I Club and several US maritime law firms and is admitted to practice
law in New York State and in China.
Jingjing Xu is Head of Plymouth Business School at the University of Plymouth.
She is Professor of Maritime Law and Economics, and before she took on the Head
of School role, she was the Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Business
and Director of the Institute for Social, Policy and Enterprise Research (iSPER). She
has published extensively on issues relating to the law, policy and management of
maritime transport and played a lead role, or acted as an Expert Advisor, in a
significant number of EU/international projects. She sits on a number of national
and international panels and committees as member or Expert Adviser, and she is an
elected Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation. She is a member of the editorial
board of a number of leading journals in her field and a regular reviewer for
numerous journals and publishers. In addition to her role at the University of
Plymouth, she is a Visiting Professor at World Maritime University and Lund
University in Sweden, Shanghai Maritime University in China, and an Adjunct
Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia.
Tingting Yang obtained her BSc and PhD degrees from Dalian Maritime University, China, in 2004 and 2010, respectively. She is currently Associate Professor at
the School of Electrical Engineering and Intelligentization, Dongguan University of
Technology, Dongguan, China. She has been honoured as one of the Outstanding
Young Talents of Dalian, Young Talents in Liaoning Province and Standardization
Specialist of Liaoning Province. Since September 2012, she has been a visiting
scholar at the Broadband Communications Research (BBCR) Laboratory at the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo,
Canada. Her research interests are in the areas of maritime wideband communication
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from DMU and gained his PhD from Tsinghua University in 2011. He attended a
short-term training programme at the World Maritime University in 2016 and
conducted an academic visit in the Institute of Maritime Law at the University of
Southampton from August 2018 to August 2019. Yuanjun has published a number
of articles on maritime law in both English and Chinese academic journals, some of
which were awarded prizes by different academic institutions. He has been both
person-in-charge and participant in several research projects concerning maritime or
shipping law.
Jingchen Xu is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Maritime Law,
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law. She obtained her SJD and LLM in
Admiralty (with distinction) from Tulane University Law School and her LLB in
Maritime Law from Dalian Maritime University. At Tulane, Jingchen was a Senior
Editor for Volumes 40–41 of the Tulane Maritime Law Journal and a research
assistant to Professor Robert Force. Jingchen’s work has been published in the
American Bankruptcy Law Journal and the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce, and she has presented papers at several conferences. She has interned with the
American P & I Club and several US maritime law firms and is admitted to practice
law in New York State and in China.
Jingjing Xu is Head of Plymouth Business School at the University of Plymouth.
She is Professor of Maritime Law and Economics, and before she took on the Head
of School role, she was the Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Business
and Director of the Institute for Social, Policy and Enterprise Research (iSPER). She
has published extensively on issues relating to the law, policy and management of
maritime transport and played a lead role, or acted as an Expert Advisor, in a
significant number of EU/international projects. She sits on a number of national
and international panels and committees as member or Expert Adviser, and she is an
elected Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation. She is a member of the editorial
board of a number of leading journals in her field and a regular reviewer for
numerous journals and publishers. In addition to her role at the University of
Plymouth, she is a Visiting Professor at World Maritime University and Lund
University in Sweden, Shanghai Maritime University in China, and an Adjunct
Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia.
Tingting Yang obtained her BSc and PhD degrees from Dalian Maritime University, China, in 2004 and 2010, respectively. She is currently Associate Professor at
the School of Electrical Engineering and Intelligentization, Dongguan University of
Technology, Dongguan, China. She has been honoured as one of the Outstanding
Young Talents of Dalian, Young Talents in Liaoning Province and Standardization
Specialist of Liaoning Province. Since September 2012, she has been a visiting
scholar at the Broadband Communications Research (BBCR) Laboratory at the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo,
Canada. Her research interests are in the areas of maritime wideband communication
About the Authors
xxvii