Dr. Spanjaart was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Centre for Maritime Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS) from august 2013 – July 2015 and MPA Visiting Professor of Maritime Law at NUS in August 2015, teaching an intensive elective course on Multimodal Transport Law. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Erasmus University as well as an advocate with Kneppelhout Lawyers. Prior to joining Kneppelhout Michiel was a partner with Padberg Spanjaart, and before that with DLA Piper. His practice areas include trade, transport and insurance. His research interest is in the area of maritime law.