Dr. Kay Uwe Bahnsen

Rechtsanwalt, Certified Specialist in Transportation and Forwarding Law

Practice Areas:
Maritime and Transport Law (Certified Specialist), Insurance Law, Commercial Law

Memberships:
Chairman of the German Transportation Law Society (DGTR), Chairman of the Committee on Certified Specialists of the Bars of Hamburg, Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Oldenburg, Braunschweig and Celle, Board Member German Association of Transport Law, German Maritime Arbitration Association, International Bar Association (IBA), Commission on Transport Law of the German Lawyers Association

Publications:
Author of the definitive textbook Rabe/Bahnsen, Seehandelsrecht (Maritime Law), 5th Ed.; Co-author of Commercial Law Commentaries ("Münchener Kommentar zum HGB", since 3rd Ed., and of Ebenroth/Boujong/Joost/Strohn, since 2nd Ed.)

Curriculum:
University of Hamburg (Law, History, Economics, German studies, Political Studies), Journalist for several years, Scientific assistant at the Maritime and Law of the Sea Institute at the University of Hamburg

Admitted 1992
Doctorate 1997 (The International Convention on Salvage, 1989)
Certified Specialist in Transport and Forwarding Law since 2006

Foreign Languages: English and Spanish