Jesper Windahl

Jesper Windahl is head of WSCO’s shipping practice group. He is a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Copenhagen (1996). For many years Jesper Windahl has focussed on the shipping, transport and insurance sectors. He conducts court and arbitration proceedings and has right of appearance before the Danish Supreme Court.

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His work particularly includes C/P- and B/L-disputes, liabilities and claims arising from the collision and grounding of vessels, FD&D-disputes, the arrest of vessels, cargo claims and insolvency-related issues in the shipping and transport industry. He regularly attends seminars and conferences abroad, gives lectures and speeches and writes for legal periodicals. He has published the first Danish legal text book on freightforwarders', hauliers' and stevedores' liability insurace.

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He has been employed as a part-time teaching assistant and associate professor in property and insolvency law at the University of Copenhagen, the Faculty of Law and has been an associate professor in transport law.

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Publications:

_{* Ansvar efter transportdokumentet ved godsbeskadigelse under søtransport, Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen, 1997B, side 544.}

‍ _{* Regres mellem CMR-fragtførere, Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen, 1999B, side 10.}

‍ _{* Mere om frempantsætning af ejerpantebreve (sammen med Nicolai Jung), Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen 1999B, side326.}

‍_{*  Lakune i søloven?, Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen 1999B, side427.}

‍_{* Sikker checkbetaling, Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen 2000B, side 220.}

‍_{* Skibsmæglerens ansvar som transportør, Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen 2000B, side 263.}

_{* Værneting for søgsmål modundertransportører, Festskrift i anledning af Den Danske Søretsforenings 100års jubilæum, 2000, kap. 19.}

_{* Is Germany a Hague Visby State?, European Transport Law, vol. XXXV No. 4, 2000.}

_{* Mere om regres mellem CMR-fragtførere, Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen 2001B, side 391.}

_{* Direkte krav og forumklausuler, Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen 2001B, side 242.}

_{* Nordic Jurisdiction over cases against sub-carriers, Il Diritto Marittimo,vol. iii, 2001.}

_{* Arrest i skib, Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen 2005B, side 258.}

_{* Global Limitation of liability and the Brussels 1 Regulation, European Transport Law, vol. XLIV No. 6 2009.}

_{* Skadelidtes krav mod skadevolderens ansvarsforsikringsselskab i internationale sager, Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen 2010B, side 348.}

_{* Medredaktør af Transfer of Ownership in International Trade, Wolters Kluwer (2011).}

_{* “De for en sådan transportmådegældende lovbestemmelser” - om speditørens netværksansvar, Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen U 2012B, s. 221.}

_{* Speditør- og fragtføreransvarsforsikring (Bog), 2013, Karnov Group.}

_{* Transportaftalens betydning for transportøransvaret ved færdselsuheld, Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen 2020B, side 11.}

_{* Speditør- fragtfører- og stevedoreansvarsforsikring (Bog), 2. udgave 2023, Karnov Group.}

_{* Voldgiftsbehandling af CMR-tvister, Juristen nr. 1, 2025.}

_{* Værnetingsaftalens betydning for transportkøberens direkte krav imod undertransportøren, Festskrift i anledning af Søretsforeningens 125-års jubilæum, 2025, s. 59.}

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