Dr Miriam Goldby is Professor of Shipping, Insurance and Commercial Law and Director of Research at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. She was previously director of the Centre’s Insurance, Shipping and Aviation Law Institute (2019-2022) and founder and director of its International Shipping Law LLM (2013-2022). She is the author of Electronic Documents in Maritime Trade: Law and Practice (OUP), the second edition of which was published in 2019, and has published extensively in the fields of shipping, insurance and financial law. She participated in the work of UNCITRAL WG IV which led to the adoption of the Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records in 2017. She also undertook a part-time secondment to the Law Commission of England and Wales to work on the Electronic Trade Documents project between November 2020 and March 2022. She is a member of the Comité Maritime International (CMI) Standing Committee on Carriage of Goods, and vice-chair of the International Chamber of Commerce UK (ICC UK) Commercial Law and Practice Committee.