The Chair of Shipping Law is held by Professor John Hare. Professor Jan Glazewski has the Chair of Environmental Law in the Institute of Marine and Environmental Law, and the Chair of Marine Law is held by Professor John Gibson.

Mr Robert Knutzen LLB (Cape Town) BCL (Oxon) will be teaching part of "Maritime Law"  in the 2nd semester of 2004. Mr Knutzen taught at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, before joining Ince & Co. in London in 1978. In 1982 he left practice to take up a senior management position with Golden Ocean Group in London — one of the world's largest independent shipping groups with close on 2m dwt in its fleet. He was President and CEO of Golden Ocean until 2000. We are incredibly fortunate that Rob Knutzen is prepared to share his enormous expertise and experience with us.

Mr Graham Bradfield BCom LLB (Natal) LLM Shipping Law (Cape Town). After graduating from the University of Natal, Durban, Graham practised as an attorney in Durban before being appointed lecturer in the department of Commercial Law at UCT.

He returned to Cape Town in 2002 from a spell with Phillips Fox in Sydney, Australia. He rejoined UCT in 2004 after a spell at Deneys Reitz's shipping law department, to teach commercial law subjects including the maritime law courses at LLB and LLM level. His research and teaching interests lie in the fields of Shipping Law, commercial transactions and insolvency, and Company Law.

In Shipping, Marine and Environmental Law, use is made of guest lecturers and adjunct staff from South Africa and abroad. The faculty has full video conferencing facilities, and greater use will be made of this in the future to "beam in" guest lecturers.