Tetley Lecture: Experienced Maritime Arbitrator Speaks April 3

A distinguished maritime arbitrator and professor of legal practice who has served as an international maritime judge is the featured speaker of the William Tetley Lecture in Maritime Law on Tuesday April 3, at Tulane Law School.

Prof. Anselmo Reyes of the University of Hong Kong will lecture on “Anticipatory Breach in Charterparties” beginning at 5 p.m. in the Wendell H. Gauthier Moot Court Room 110, John Giffen Weinmann Hall, 6329 Freret St.

Reyes has been a Professor of Legal Practice at Hong Kong University since 2013. He also is president of the Hong Kong Maritime Law Association and is an international judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court. He formerly served as a judge in charge of the Admiralty and Commercial Lists of the Hong Kong Court of First Instance.

Reyes holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard College and a Bachelor’s, LLM and PhD from Cambridge University.Tulane’s Maritime Law Center established the William Tetley Lecture in Maritime Law in 1999 in honor of Tetley, a professor at McGill Law School in Montreal. For many years, he taught mini-courses at Tulane Law, covering a wide range of admiralty topics.

The lecture was established in his honor for his distinguished service to Tulane Law School's Maritime Program, his contributions to scholarship and his service to the international maritime community. Tetley passed away in 2014.