Paul is a Professor of Law at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT). He was formerly the Deputy Director of the Centre for Maritime Law (CML) and Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore since May 2015, where he primarily taught Admiralty Law & Practice, Maritime Conflict of Laws, and Trade Finance Law. Paul had previously held faculty positions in South Africa and New Zealand. He has also held visiting teaching positions and research fellowships at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, the Nordisk Institutt for Sjoerett, University of Oslo, and at City University of Hong Kong (as KH Koo Foundation Visiting Research Fellow at the Hong Kong Centre for Maritime and Transport Law). Paul is the Chief Editor of the CML CMI Database on Judicial Decisions on International Conventions. He is the New Zealand correspondent for Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, and sits on the editorial boards of the Journal for International Maritime Law and the Maritime Business Review.