Mr. Manthan Gopikrishna Desai is the Teaching and Research Assistant at Gujarat Maritime University. He is a Member of the Centre for Maritime Environmental Law and an Alumni Member of IQAC at GMU. His areas of interest are Maritime Environment Law, Shipping Law, and International Law. He assisted a renowned admiralty advocate at Gujarat High Court during his LLM. Recently he received a Full Scholarship to participate in the 3rd Edition Global Forum on the MLC, 2006: Current and Future Developments organized by International Training Centre, International Labour Organization in October 2022.