Dr Jennifer Lavelle specialises in providing marine and non-marine policy coverage advice to major international insurers and trading companies worldwide. Jennifer also handles recovery claims in arbitration and in court in the UK and abroad. She has a Ph.D. in commercial law and researched and taught various commercial and maritime law subjects at the University of Southampton before joining Clyde & Co., contributing to Merkin, Marine Insurance Legislation (5th edition) and Clarke (ed.), Maritime Law Evolving. Jennifer also spent two years at UNCTAD in Geneva, where she published numerous reports on the international legal regimes for countering piracy and for providing compensation for ship-source oil pollution.