Associate Professor
BA, 2005, Georgia Southern University; J.D., 2012, Tulane University Law School
Room 525 | Phone: 501-916-5462 | Email: rkilpatrick@ualr.edu
Richard Kilpatrick will join Bowen as an Associate Professor in fall 2026 after having served as a Visiting Professor in academic years 2024-2026 teaching courses in contracts, sales, and maritime law. Prior to joining the Bowen faculty, he was Associate Professor at the College of Charleston, School of Business, in Charleston, South Carolina. He also previously taught at Northeastern Illinois University, School of Business and Management, in Chicago, Illinois, and practiced at a Chicago law firm. Professor Kilpatrick is a scholar of maritime and international commercial law and is the author of a broad range of law review articles, book chapters, and essays on the subject. His book聽Geopolitical Disruption in Shipping: Sanctions, War, and Force Majeure聽was published by Hart (Bloomsbury) in May 2026.
Professor Kilpatrick frequently speaks at conferences and invited lectures around the world, and maintains various external affiliations, including as an Academic Fellow at the National University of Singapore Centre for Maritime Law, an Associate Member at the University of Aberdeen Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance, a Fellow at the European Law Institute, and an Academic Member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States. He earned his Juris Doctor from Tulane University Law School and is a member of the Illinois bar.
Selected Publications
BOOKS
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr., Geopolitical Disruption in Shipping: Sanctions, War, and Force Majeure (Hart 2026)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr., Vessel Tracking Innovations: Promise and Peril, in Marine Technology, Ocean Development and the Law of the Sea at 199-220 (James Kraska and Khanssa Lagdami eds., Cambridge University Press 2026)
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr., Charterparty Contracts and Clauses for Arctic Shipping, in Routledge Handbook of Polar Law at 631-645 (Yoshifumi Tanaka, Rachael Johnstone & Vibe Ulfbeck eds., Routledge 2023)
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr., Carriage of Goods by Sea, in Research Handbook on Ocean Governance at 316-324 (Simon Borg, Felicity Attard & Patricia Mallia Vella de Fremeaux eds., Edward Elgar 2023)
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr., The Impact of UN Sanctions on Commercial Shipping Activities, in Global Challenges and the Law of the Sea at 159-174 (Marta Chantal Ribeiro, Fernando Loureiro Bastos & Tore Henriksen eds., Springer 2020)
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr. & LT Adam Smith, Balancing the SAR Responsibilities of States and Shipmasters, in Securitizing Asylum Flows at 81-101 (Valsamis Mitsilegas, Violeta Moreno-Lax & Niovi Vavoula eds., Brill 2020)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr.,Revisiting the Five Powers War Risk Exclusion, 73 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 551 (2024)
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr. & Adriana Vincenca Padovan, Tanker Sanctions and Environmental Risk, 53 Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 81 (2024)
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr., What Courts Get Wrong About 鈥淲ar鈥�, 136British Insurance Law Association Journal 44 (2024)
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr., Sanctions-based Impossibility, Lloyd鈥檚 Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 221 (2024)
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr., Sanctions Clause Redux, 29 Journal of International Maritime Law 199 (2023)
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr., Monitoring Sanctions Compliance at Sea, 42 Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business 221 (2022)
Felicity G. Attard & Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr., Maritime Stowaways: Public and Private Legal Implications, 36 Ocean Yearbook 621 (2022)
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr., Maritime Sanctions Clauses, Lloyd鈥檚 Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 565 (2020)
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr., North Korea鈥檚 Sanctions-Busting Maritime Practices: Implications for Commercial Shipping, 37 Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs 199 (2020)
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr., Why Evolving European SAR Policies Threaten Merchant Shipping, 7 Maritime Safety and Security Law Journal 31 (2020)
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr., Marine Insurance Prohibitions in Contemporary Economic Warfare, 95 International Law Studies 272 (2019)
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr., Privity and Subcontracting in Multimodal Transport 鈥� Diverging Solutions, Journal of Business Law 481 (2019)
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr., The 鈥淩efugee Clause鈥� for Commercial Shipping Contracts: Why Allocation of Rescue Costs is Critical During Periods of Mass Migration at Sea, 46 Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 403 (2018)
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr., The Joint and Several Liability of 鈥淢erchants鈥� Under Maritime Bills of Lading, 47 Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 411 (2016)
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr. & LT Adam Smith, The International Legal Obligation to Rescue During Mass Migration at Sea: Navigating the Sovereign and Commercial Dimensions of a Mediterranean Crisis, 28 University of San Francisco Maritime Law Journal 142 (2016)
Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr., How Limited is 鈥淟imited Agency鈥�? Lower Courts Rock the Boat by Broadly Applying the Supreme Court鈥檚 Narrow Kirby Guidelines for Interpreting Bills of Lading, 40 Tulane Maritime Law Journal 52 (2015)