Patrick Dahm

That German-Singapore Lawyer

Category: Scribblings

Damage Prevention Costs in Maritime Logistics: German Law

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On 25 March 2026

In Law, Scribblings, 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

Dissertation Summarised

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On 5 December 2025

In Law, Scribblings, Singapore

When my dis­ser­ta­tion came out late last year, a few col­leagues asked why a work so focused on Singa­pore, where Eng­lish is the lan­guage of the law, was writ­ten in Ger­man. Well, it was a Ger­man doc­tor­ate, plus the dis­ser­ta­tion was inten­ded as a con­tri­bu­tion to the debate on com­mer­cial courts in Ger­many. That’s why.

Still, they had a point, so I put togeth­er an Eng­lish sum­mary: ‘Should a Dis­pute Be Brought to the Singa­pore Inter­na­tion­al Com­mer­cial Court or to Arbitration?’

I’m pleased to share that it has now been pub­lished in this year’s Zeits­chrift für Zivil­prozess Inter­na­tion­al (ZZP Int (29) 2024, pp. 258 – 312). If the top­ic interests you, do have a look.

The Distribution Law of Singapore

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On 3 February 2025

In Law, Scribblings, Singapore

Hear ye, hear ye! The fifth edi­tion of Hand­buch Ver­triebs­recht (Hand­book of Dis­tri­bu­tion Law), edited by Mar­tinek, Semler and Flohr, has been pub­lished. It’s a tome of 3,155 (plus LXXVII) pages that once again provides a sys­tem­at­ic and detailed present­a­tion of this area of law, both nation­ally (from a Ger­man per­spect­ive) and inter­na­tion­ally. One of the new addi­tions from my pen is a chapter on Singa­pore, which deals com­pre­hens­ively with its com­mer­cial agency, author­ised deal­er, fran­chise and com­pet­i­tion laws.

Panic Over New WhatsApp Policy?

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On 13 January 2021

In Scribblings

A friend sent me this piece about WhatsApp’s new pri­vacy policy, ask­ing for my take on it: ‘Expert: No need to pan­ic over new What­s­App policy’.

All right, in brief, here’s my take.

The WhatsApp logo with a Facebook F in it instead of the original phone receiver.

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Guerrilla Tactics in Arbitration

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On 5 April 2018

In Law, Scribblings

I don’t like how we use the term guer­rilla tac­tics in inter­na­tion­al arbit­ra­tion. Refer­ring to guer­rilla dis­ap­prov­ingly implies meth­ods of tra­di­tion­al war­fare are alright. Artil­lery or old-school tac­tic­al form­a­tions – okay. Sneaky ambushes or hit-and-run attacks – not okay.

Japanese premises at night, approached by ninjas
The place of the hear­ing at night

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