The Tetley Lecture is dedicated to the study of admiralty and maritime law.
Professor Anselmo Reyes (Professor of Legal Practice, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, second from right) delivered the 2017-2018 Tetley Lecture.
History
In 1999, the Maritime Law Center established the William Tetley Lecture in Maritime Law in honor of the late Professor William Tetley, a Professor at McGill Law School in Montreal. The Lecture was later endowed by a gift from Bill Tetley himself and continues to operate under the direction of the Maritime Law Center.
William Tetley was a distinguished Canadian maritime lawyer with a towering international reputation. He was the author of many widely-acclaimed books and articles on maritime law, including Marine Cargo Claims, and International Conflict of Laws: Common, Civil and Maritime. He had several distinguished careers, first as a practicing lawyer, then as a politician, and later as a professor at the faculty of law at McGill University in Montreal. From 1984 to 1998, he taught a mini-course each year in the admiralty program at Tulane University Law School, “going south each winter like a Canada goose,” as he always said. Professor Tetley passed away on Canada Day in 2014; he is fondly remembered by all who knew him.
Past Lecturers
| 2019 | Rear Admiral Steven Andersen Judge Advocate General and Chief Counsel of the U.S. Coast Guard |
| 2018 | Professor Anselmo Reyes Professor of Legal Practice, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong |
| 2017 | Rear Admiral (Ret.) Frederick J. Kenney Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations Division of the International Maritime Organization |
| 2016 | Alexander von Ziegler (LLM `84) Professor at the University of Zurich Partner at Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd |
| 2015 | Justice Johanne Gauthier Federal Court of Appeal of Canada |
| 2014 | Stuart Hetherington President of Comité Maritime International |
| 2013 | Justice Bernard Eder High Court of England and Wales |
| 2012 | Archie Bishop Consultant for Holman Fenwick Willan |
| 2010 | Professor Charles Debattista Professor of Commerical Law Director of the Institute of Maritime Law at the University of Southampton |
| 2010 | Captain (Ret.) Gordan Van Hook Senior Director of Innovation and Concept Development Maersk Line Ltd |
| 2009 | Justice James Allsop President of the New South Wales Court of Appeals |
| 2008 | Bruce Harris Former President of the London Maritime Arbitration Assocaton |
| 2007 | Måns Jacobsson Former Assistant Under-Secretary and Head of the Department for International Affairs Swedish Ministry of Justice |
| 2006 | Mary Helen Carlson Senior Attorney, Office of the Assistant Legal Advisor for Private International Law U.S. Department of State |
| 2005 | Dr. Rosalie Balkin Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations at the International Maritime Organization |
| 2004 | Professor Jan Ramberg Professor of International Commercial Arbitration Riga Graduate School of Law, Latvia |
| 2003 | Stephen Martin Director and Head of Claims at Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association Ltd |
| 2002 | Justice David Steel Judge of the Admiralty Court of the Queen’s Bench Division of the U.K. High Court of Justice |
| 2001 | Professor Hannu Honka Professor of International Commercial Law and Chair of the Department of Law Abo Akademi University, Finland |
| 2000 | Professor William Tetley Professor of Law, McGill University |
| 1999 | Inaugural Address Given by Professor William Tetley |
