Professor, Maritime Law & Policy
World Maritime University
Dr. Jessen joined the WMU in 2016 (Maritime Law & Policy specialization). Since 2018, he is the Programme Coordinator of WMU’s Postgraduate Diploma in Marine Insurance Law & Practice, in 2022 he joined the editorial board of WMU’s Journal of Maritime Affairs. He is a fully qualified lawyer in his German home jurisdiction and graduated from the University of Kiel in 2002. Supported by a Scholarship of the German-American Fulbright Commission Dr. Jessen undertook postgraduate studies in 2003-2004 (Admiralty and Maritime Law) in the United States at Tulane Law School, New Orleans. In 2005, he received his PhD from Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, with highest honours (summacum laude).
From 2006 to 2008, Dr. Jessen worked for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. Since 2008, he has been working as a Professor of Maritime Law and the Law of the Sea, at two universities in the German maritime hubs of Bremen (2008-2012) and Hamburg (2012-2016). Dr. Jessen has co-edited and authored an extensive commentary on the EU’s regulatory activity in maritime transport law. His main areas of teaching and research are legal aspects of IMO Conventions and related EU Law as well as the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), carriage of goods by sea law, marine insurance, international transport law across all modes and related trade facilitation.