Patrick Dahm

That German-Singapore Lawyer

Category: Germany

Expenses, Not Damages

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On 26 August 2026

In Germany, Publications & Talks, Shipping & Maritime

In March 2026, I presen­ted a paper at the 23rd Inter­na­tion­al Con­gress of Mari­time Arbit­rat­ors (ICMA XXIII) in Singa­pore on recov­er­ing the cost of pre­vent­ing a loss from a con­trac­tu­al breach that has not yet happened. The paper has now been pub­lished, in expan­ded form, in the Ger­man trans­port law journ­al Trans­port­recht: ‘The Cost of Pre­ven­tion – Expense Recov­ery in Mari­time Logist­ics Under Ger­man Law, Cor­rectly Applied’, TranspR 2026, 296–302 (issue 7–8) (sub­scrip­tion required).

The article ‘The Cost of Prevention – Expense Recovery in Maritime Logistics Under German Law, Correctly Applied’ by Patrick Dahm, as printed in Transportrecht 2026, 296–302 (issue 7–8)

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Damage Prevention Costs in Maritime Logistics: German Law

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On 25 March 2026

In Germany, Publications & Talks, Shipping & Maritime, Singapore

I had a very good time present­ing a paper at the 23rd Inter­na­tion­al Con­gress of Mari­time Arbit­rat­ors (ICMA XXIII) yes­ter­day: ‘Reim­burse­ment of Dam­age Pre­ven­tion Costs in Mari­time Logist­ics in the Event of an Anti­cip­ated Breach of Duty Accord­ing to (Cor­rectly Applied) Ger­man Law’. For any­one inter­ested, I am shar­ing the full paper (PDF) in a slightly expan­ded ver­sion: one para­graph of exactly 99 words at the very end that I had to cut from the con­fer­ence ver­sion to meet the rig­or­ous word lim­it, plus Eng­lish trans­la­tions of the rel­ev­ant Ger­man stat­utory pro­vi­sions in the footnotes.

Dr Patrick Dahm at the podium presenting his paper on damage prevention costs in maritime logistics at ICMA XXIII, Singapore, March 2026

From Munich with Law: My Way to a Doctorate

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On 26 April 2024

In Arbitration & Dispute Resolution, Germany, Law, Obiter

If you know me, you know that I don’t always do things in life in the ortho­dox order. After passing my first state exam­in­a­tion in law at the begin­ning of 2001, I wanted to do a doc­tor­ate. In fact, I had already made sev­er­al pre­par­a­tions for it. But then life inter­vened and took me from Ham­burg to Singa­pore. Which was fine, and I soon aban­doned the idea of becom­ing a Doc­tor of Law and con­cen­trated on my second state exam­in­a­tion, then my career, and whatever else was hap­pen­ing in my life (which, as life goes, wasn’t all smooth sail­ing). A while ago, how­ever, I picked up the idea again and pur­sued it fur­ther. Yes­ter­day I was in Munich for my oral doc­tor­al exam­in­a­tion at Lud­wig Max­imili­an Uni­ver­sity (LMU). I’m happy to report: I made it.

Me last night at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (symbolic picture).

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BeA – Insecure Professional Communication for German Lawyers

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On 6 September 2018

In Germany, Technology & Law

As of this week, Ger­man law­yers are required to use an elec­tron­ic com­mu­nic­a­tion tool designed espe­cially for them: the spe­cial elec­tron­ic law­yers’ mail­box (beson­deres elektron­isches Anwalt­s­post­fach or beA). The prob­lem is that the beA is inher­ently insec­ure, so it seems bet­ter to avoid using it. This would include, if pos­sible, not lit­ig­at­ing before a Ger­man court if there’s a chance that the oppon­ent or the court might use the beA in the pro­ceed­ings. This seems all the more appro­pri­ate where there is a risk of snoop­ing or foul play by the oppon­ent or third parties, or where the stakes are high – and when aren’t they?

My beA card
One card to bring them all and in the dark­ness bind them

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The Supreme Court of Singapore

Singapurischer Internationaler Handelsgerichtshof eröffnet

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On 7 January 2015

In Arbitration & Dispute Resolution, Germany, Publications & Talks, Singapore

Anfang 2015 wurde der Singapur­ische Inter­na­tionale Han­dels­gericht­shof (Singa­pore Inter­na­tion­al Com­mer­cial Court oder SICC) eröffnet. Das Gericht ist als Teil des singapur­ischen Supreme Court für inter­na­tionale Han­dels­sachen zuständig und ver­eint schiedsgericht­liche und gericht­liche Ele­mente. Singapur will dam­it seine Pos­i­tion als inter­na­tionales Streit­sch­lich­tung­szen­trum ausbauen.

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