Olga Koroleva
Olga is a London-based artist, filmmaker, and independent researcher working within the field of animal theory. She is a Film Practice Fellow at the Centre for Film and Ethics, Queen Mary University. Her research interests, marked out in the ongoing project Patterns of Care, include questions of personhood, life, and liveness of human and non-human animals, organic and inorganic matter, and their multiplicities, indigenous standpoints, and an examination of the co-evolution of interspecies relations in language, biology, and gesture.
Olga is the founder and leader of The Political Animal Group. www.olgakoroleva.com olga_koroleva@hotmail.co.uk Other members can reach out to her for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions she is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting her city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications ✔ Other: Artistic practice, primarily moving image |
Iyan Offor
Iyan is a PhD researcher at the Strathclyde Center for Environmental Law and Governance, University of Strathclyde. He is also an Associate Researcher for Eurogroup for Animals and a Student Ambassador for the UK Center for Animal Law. Iyan researches Global Animal Law. Specifically, his research investigates the pre-eminence of International Trade Law in the emergence of Global Animal Law. Iyan's thesis builds towards a critical, intersectional animal ethic that can more effectively ground an animal-centric Global Animal Law.
Iyan has taught Global Animal Law and International Trade at the University of Strathclyde and at Aarhus University. Click here to access his university site. iyan.offor@strath.ac.uk Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions he is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects, and grant applications |
Dr. Pranoto Iskandar
Pranoto is the Founding Director of the Institute for Migrant Rights and O’Brien Fellow at McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. His most recent publishing initiative through the Institute is The Indonesian Journal of International and Comparative Law. He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, and is Advisory Editor for Borders and Migrations Studies Online, a multimedia database on human migration.
Some of his most recent scholarly publications can be found in: Social & Legal Studies, Oxford University Comparative Law Forum, and Journal of Contemporary Asia. pranotoi@imr.or.id https://www.imr.or.id Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions he is associated with ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects, and grant applications |
Dr. Parikshit Thakur
Parikshit is Assistant Professor of Political Science in Dwijendralal College and guest faculty in the Post Graduate Department of Political Science, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. He submitted his doctoral work in the Department of International Relations Jadavpur University, India on Searching for the Roots of Civil Society in India. He has been recipient of Charles Wallace India Trust Short Term Research Grant in 2014, from the Commission of India, and the Indian Council of Historical Research.
Parikshit has published two edited volumes, one monograph, fifteen articles and book chapters and is currently working on South Asia, Water Governance and Geo-Politics. thakur28286@gmail.com Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions he is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects, and grant applications |
Preethi Lolaksha Nagaveni
Preethi is undertaking a PhD in Law at Lancaster University, UK where she is researching practices of untouchability, focusing on manual scavenging and caste-based discrimination in higher educational institutions in India. She was a Lecturer at NLSIU, Bangalore, and an Advocate in the Karnataka High Court, Bangalore. She previously interned with the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, New Delhi and His Lordship Justice Chelameswar, Supreme Court of India.
Preethi holds a B.A.LL.B (Hons) with Gold Medal from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and an LL.M in Human Rights from the University of Reading, UK. p.lolakshanagaveni@lancaster.ac.uk Other members can reach out to her for: ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting her city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects, and grant applications |
Otto Simonsson
Otto is a DPhil student in Sociology at the University of Oxford where he conducts cross-sectional and longitudinal research on mindfulness-based and kindness-based practices.
He is an author, film-maker, and a freelance contributor on climate change issues for the Thomas Reuters Foundation. His forthcoming book, 'The Mindful Society', will be published this year. Otto holds an MA in International Law from SOAS, University of London. Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects, and grant applications |
Senthorun Raj
Dr. Senthorun Raj is a Lecturer in Law at Keele University and is passionate about glitter, pop culture, politics, and social justice. Sen’s academic and activist work takes an intersectional approach to addressing the ways law deals with the lives of queer minorities.
He is the chair of Black Gold Arts and serves on the board of Amnesty International UK. Prior to taking up a lectureship in the UK, Sen was a Scholar in Residence at NYU School of Law’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and a Churchill Fellow. He has also worked as the Senior Policy Advisor for the NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby and served on the boards of Amnesty International Australia and ACON Health. s.raj@keele.ac.uk Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions he is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Karen Richmond
Karen is a doctoral candidate at the University of Strathclyde. Her research explores interactions between the legal, and scientific, domains, with a particular focus on forensic DNA profiling, and the use of algorithms within the criminal justice system.
She is also an evidence scholar, whose postdoctoral research led her to develop a quantitative method of Wigmorean case analysis. She works as a tutor at the University of Edinburgh Law School, and is engaged in postdoctoral study with the European Graduate School, where her work focusses on trans-disciplinary understandings of epistemological, and ontological, legal problems. karen.richmond@egs.edu Other members can reach out to her for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions she is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications ✔ Seminars, Presentations, Workshops (including Forensic Science, Evidence) |
Ibukun Iyiola- Omisore
Ibukun is a Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Business Law and Practice, University of Leeds. She is interested in the role of corporate governance and sustainability in emerging economies. Her PhD research is on the link between corporate governance and corporate social responsibility in West Africa, with focus on multinational companies.
She holds an LLM degree in International Economic Law from the University of Warwick. She is a qualified Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. She was also an associate at a Nigerian based law firm prior to the commencement of her doctorate programme. Ibukun is currently a module assistant at the University of Leeds. lwiai@leeds.ac.uk Other members can reach out to her for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions she is associated with ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Abhayraj Naik
Abhayraj is an advisor, consultant, and researcher based in Bengaluru, India. His consultancy and advisory work bring together innovation, research, strategy, design, communication, and implementation. His current research focuses on climate action, cities, environmental theory, and practice, mobility, leadership, technology policy, and transformation.
Abhayraj is a graduate of the National Law School of India University and Yale Law School. abhayrajnaik@gmail.com Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions he is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Amit Anand
Amit is pursuing a PhD in Law at Lancaster University, U.K. His PhD focuses on honour killings, witch hunting and the Devadasi system as three major forms of violence against women in India that are generally seen as non-conventional crimes. He is enrolled as an Advocate in the Jharkhand State Bar Council, Ranchi, India. He has previously worked at the National Commission for the Scheduled Castes, New Delhi; under His Lordship, Mr. Justice J. Chelameswar, Supreme Court of India, and Hon’ble Mr. Justice R.R. Prasad, High Court of Jharkhand.
Amit holds a B.A.LL.B (Hons) National Law School of India University, Bangalore and LLM (Human Rights) at the University of Reading, UK. a.anand1@lancaster.ac.uk Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Mohammed Hussain
Mohammed is a British-Pakistani law graduate with extensive editorial experience and publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is the Executive Director of the Network for International Law Students and Editor-in-Chief of the NILS Law Review. He seeks to build networks while working as a Research Assistant to Alun Jones QC (Head of Great James Street Chambers) before undertaking postgraduate research on gender rights in South Asia. He is interested in the governance of human rights in multicultural communities.
Previous recipient of the SOAS National Scholarship Programme Bursary and Full Academic Scholarship at BPP University Law School. hussain_subhan@outlook.com Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions he is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Shin-Hong Ng
Shin-Hong is Formosan (Taiwanese). He is currently a student of PhD in Law at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK researching issues related to the legal status of Taiwan and their solutions.
He is interested in criminal law and public international law, in particular laws of war, international human rights law, self-determination, nationality, and statehood. Shin-Hong has received an LLB from National Taiwan University, Taiwan; an LLM (criminal law) National Taipei University, Taiwan; and LLM (international law) from the University College London, UK. huang.shengfeng@gmail.com Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Eka Putra
Eka is currently a Fulbright Scholar studying for a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) at the Maurer School of Law-Indiana University Bloomington. His dissertation research focuses on comparative research between Indonesia and United States regarding criminal defamation in digital age.
He is also a Lecturer in Law at the University of Merdeka Malang, Indonesia. His key research interest is cyber law. In 2016 and 2017 his research on cyber crime and online consumer fraud won a Junior Lecturer Research National Grant from the Indonesian Ministry of Research and a Higher Education grant respectively. eka.nugraha@unmer.ac.id Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions he is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Saurav Ghimire
Saurav is a Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Private and Economic Laws at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He is currently studying legal regimes governing intellectual property rights over plant genetic resources, including ancillary issues such as human rights, biodiversity and sustainable development.
He is a member of the International Law Association-Nepal. Saurav.Ghimire@vub.be Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions he is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting my city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Dr. Fatma Raâch
Fatma is the Founder and President of the Tunisian Association for International Law, holder of the Diploma of IHEI (Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales) Paris II, and of the ICRC Diploma in International Humanitarian law. She holds a Tunisian PhD in Public International Law (2013) and has published a book and several articles related to international humanitarian law and universal jurisdiction.
She is an academic research consultant for NGOs and international organisations in project dealing with state reform, justice reform, prevention of torture in Tunisia, strengthening of the rule of law and human rights protection during democratic transitions. raach.fatma@gmail.com Other members can reach out to her for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions she is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting her city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Huiru Wang
Huiru is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Public international Law at Jilin University, China. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Surrey from 2017 to 2018, a student member of BIICL and ESIL, and an active participant in international law academies, moot courts and conferences.
She has been published in the International Law Review of Wuhan University, and has written on the Compliance with and Enforcement of the Judgments of the ICJ, Chinese Approaches and Discourse Power in Cyberspace, The Role of Non-state Actors in International Law, and Accountability of Transnational Corporations under International Rule of Law. huiru.wang.grace@outlook.com Other members can reach out to her for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions she is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting her city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Himanshi Gupta
Himanshi is currently pursuing an LLM in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution at Queen Mary University, London, UK. She intends to work in investment treaty arbitration,
Himanshi is a qualified Indian lawyer with experience in litigation and arbitration at the Supreme Court of India. She graduated with an LLB from Amity Law School, Noida, India. himanshi.adv@gmail.com Other members can reach out to her for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions she is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting her city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Bauyrzhan Zhanadilov
Bauyrzhan is a specialist with experience in legal research on international arbitration. During his education at the Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Law as an LL.M student, he worked as a research assistant of Prof. Catherine Rogers on the project of the American Law Institute: “Restatement of the Law, the U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration”. This institute focuses on a clarification of the U.S. law and its statutory elements, represent the law from the court’s view. His responsibilities are cite-checking, proof-reading and case analysis.
Bauyrzhan Zhanadilov holds an LL.B with honours from Sh.Ualikhanov Kokshetau State University (Kazakhstan). bzz82@psu.edu Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Ekakshra Mahajan
Ekakshra is a lawyer practicing at various courts and tribunals in India dealing primarily with civil and commercial disputes. She was awarded a Fellowship by Pennsylvania State University to pursue her LLM from Penn State Law, where she specialized in bankruptcy, antitrust, constitutional and public health law.
She was conferred with the title "Best Indian Female Law Student of the Year" in 2017 by the Chief Justice of India for her academic credentials, and for legal aid that she has rendered to marginalised communities. She has passed the New York State Bar Examination. ekakshramahajan@gmail.com Other members can reach out to her for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions she is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting her city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Christoforos Ioannidis
Christoforos began his academic career with his LLB at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, followed by his LLM in International Law at the University of Edinburgh. After teaching overseas for a few years, he obtained his MA in Philosophy at Arizona State University and later began his PhD at The Dickson Poon School of Law of King's College London on legitimacy as a concept and international law, which he has recently submitted as a dissertation.
His research interests include jurisprudence and legal theory, international law, human rights, ethics, and social and political philosophy. He teaches Jurisprudence and Legal Theory and Law in Context at Queen Mary School of Law. He has also lectured in Law and Social Theory at King's College London School of Law. christoforos.ioannidis@kcl.ac.uk Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions he is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Yadav Sumati
Yadav is always striving to take on challenging roles and projects. She is a keen interdisciplinary researcher with a reasonable track record of research success with a number of published articles in international and national journals.
Her areas of specialization and interest include interdisciplinary studies, and contemporary literary theories interfacing English literature and translation studies, mythology, and film. sumati05@gmail.com Other members can reach out to her for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions she is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting her city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Danijela Glušac
Danijela works as a research fellow at the Faculty of Law in Kragujevac, University of Kragujevac (Republic of Serbia). She is also a PhD student at the Faculty of Law, University of Novi Sad, writing her thesis on life insurance contracts. She worked as a Teaching Assistant at the Novi Sad School of Business until October 2017.
She has taught Business Law, International Business Law, International Organisations and Integrations, Insurance Business and Life and Non-life Insurance. She speaks Serbian, English, and German. danijela.vps@gmail.com Other members can reach out to her for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions she is associated with ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Musaad Alwohaibi
Musaad is a Saudi scholar who is currently pursuing an SJD in International Taxation at the University of Florida, Fredric G. Levin College of Law. He is a Teaching Assistant at King Saud University, College of Law and Political Science, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is pushing for taxation regimes to rely on technology for tax collection, and has written several articles about implementing technological advances (blockchain, VATCoin) in the field.
Musaad holds an LLB from King Saud University College of Law and Political Sciences and an LLM from Boston University School of Law. mfalwohaibi@ksu.edu.sa Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Hiruy Gebreegziabher
Hiruy obtained a PhD from Monash University. His thesis, which explored the human rights compatibility of Ethiopia’s anti-terrorism law and practice, received an “Excellent” rating with straight pass by the leading scholar Professor Ben Saul. Hiruy is a member of Expert Group, which was established by the Ethiopian government to amend its Anti-Terrorism Proclamation.
He has an LLB and LLM from Addis Ababa University, and a distinguished teaching, research and community service career at Ethiopia’s University of Gondar. Hiruy is currently a sessional academic at La Trobe and Monash Universities in Australia. H.Gebreegziabher@latrobe.edu.au Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions he is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications ✔ Other: Peer reviewing an article for publication |
Alison Xu
Dr. Alison Xu just completed her PhD at the University of Leeds. Her dissertation is entitled “Party Autonomy and Choice of Law for Movable Property Rights”. Before joining the University of Leeds, she obtained a Bachelor's degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and a master's degree in International Law from China University of Political Science and Law.
She has a broad research interest, which includes private international law, property law, contract law, commercial law, IT law, and Chinese law. alisonxu881221@gmail.com Other members can reach out to her for: ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting her city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications ✔ Other: Writing support |
Ali Karimi Douzaji
Ali Karimi Douzaji held the position of Executive Committee Director for the organisation of an international conference on law's role in the restoration and conservation of Urmia Lake, from August, 2018 - April, 2019 at the University of Tehran Faculty of Law and Political Science.
He has published an article on the legal framework for the restoration of Urmia Lake, and contributed to a dictionary on water law, with his supervisor at the University of Tehran. He is currently writing an article on Iran's wetland restoration. Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions he is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Ben Dare
Benjamin is a Ph.D. candidate in Public International Law from Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Public Law from Togo, and two Master's degrees in Public Law, and International Relations and Diplomacy, from France.
His areas of expertise are international law and international relations with a special interest in human rights law, international security/peacebuilding, international humanitarian law, international criminal law and diplomacy. His research uses a multidisciplinary approach. He is currently writing various articles and is interested in applying to international law fellowships and workshops. daben2011@yahoo.fr Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions he is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Adrian Lawson
Adrian (BA Communications (Hon), JD) is an Australian criminal and health law specialist, with interests in IP, environment and negligence law. He is currently undertaking PhD research at RMIT University, Melbourne. His paper on the jurisprudential debate between HLA Hart and Ronald Dworkin, 'Contested Terms', was published in McPherson’s papers, 2016 and his experimental text/ novel, Alley Cat Nomad, is held in the rare books collections of Queensland and Victoria’s State Libraries.
Adrian is a former semi-professional snooker player, elite cricketer, has a black belt in full contact karate and loves dogs. He is currently investigating the impact of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on mental impairment laws in common law jurisdictions. adrianlawsonmail@gmail.com Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions he is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Jennifer Giblin
Jennifer is a PhD Candidate in Public International Law at the University of Nottingham. Her research focuses on international law, intervention and United Nations peacekeeping in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Jennifer takes undergraduate law tutorials and is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is also an Editorial Assistant for the Journal of Conflict and Security Law and acts as a Research Assistant for various academics, projects and publications, including a forthcoming textbook of cases and materials on law and the British military. Jennifer.giblin@nottingham.ac.uk Other members can reach out to her for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions she is associated with ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications ✔ Other: teaching collaboration, research assistance, editorial assistance - draft/proof reading, etc. |
Mika Schroeder
Mika specialises in international biodiversity law, with her key interest pertaining to the recognition and safeguarding of community rights, knowledges, and perspectives within decision-making processes. She is currently a doctoral researcher at the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance, interrogating the meaning and practice of ‘local stakeholder’ participation within international biodiversity law through the lens of spatial justice, exploring whether and how these processes enable an interrogation and reimagining of global conservation endeavours by accommodating local perspectives and experiences.
She is also a Writer/Reporter for the Earth Negotiation Bulletin at the International Institute for Environment and Development. Mika loves being outdoors, whether its cycling, climbing, trekking/running, swimming, kayaking or simply being. When at home she reads, knits, and tends to her indoor garden. mika.schroder@strath.ac.uk Other members can reach out to her for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions she is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting her city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Samaya Borom
Maya is a PhD Candidate at the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia, where her research focuses on the use of discursive strategies in cinema in regards to representations of terrorism and how this may normalise contraventions of international law and human rights.
Samaya is also a lecturer in Criminology and Law, an author and regular film and literature reviewer for various media, journals, and organisations. With a working interest in human rights, Samaya also provides consultancy services to not-for-profits groups and is part of the feature film programmer stream for the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival in Melbourne, Australia. Samaya holds a Masters of Public and International Law from the University of Melbourne with broad teaching and research interest in public and international law, security and terrorism and human rights. Samaya.Borom@monash.edu.au Other members can reach out to her for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions she is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting her city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Milica Arsić
Milica is a PhD candidate at the University of Belgrade, specialising in private international law and acts as an assistant coach for the Belgrade Vis Moot Team.
She graduated with honours from the same faculty and holds an LLM in International Commercial Arbitration. She researched European Private Law at the University of Salzburg in 2016. Milica competed in the 23rd annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, where her team ranked in the top 16 out of 311 participating teams. She has worked as an associate in a top-tier law firm in Serbia, has published four papers and is a member of Serbian Arbitration Association since 2018. Other members can reach out to her for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions she is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting her city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Dr. P Y Lo
Dr. Lo is barrister in private practice in Hong Kong affiliated with the Centre for Comparative and Public Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong. He was awarded his doctorate by the University of Hong Kong in 2012. His research interests are the Hong Kong Basic Law, 'One Country, Two Systems', comparative constitutional law and protection of human rights. His publications are accessible at:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=664944 pylohk@gmail.com Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Wenyi Lian
Ms. Wenyi Lian is a researcher in WTO law and public procurement. She received her LLM degree in Chinese Law from China University of Political Science and Law, her LLM degree in European and International Law from Hamburg University, and is conducting her PhD research at Bangor University.
Her work has been circulated inside the China Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a reference source for negotiation and policy-making. Currently, Ms Wenyi Lian is doing her research in the Economic Research and Statistics Division at the WTO, Geneva. You can reach her at w.y.lian@hotmail.com. Other members can reach out to her for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions she is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting her city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Ben Hudson
Ben Hudson is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Lincoln, UK. Ben conducts research primarily into forced migration, human rights and international law. His latest work examines ECtHR cases concerned with mixed-migration journeys across the Mediterranean Sea. Ben is also a PhD Candidate at the University of Bristol. His doctoral thesis examines the effective realisation of return as a durable solution to internal displacement.
Ben is Assistant Editor of the Journal of Internal Displacement, a Director of the Lincolnshire Refugee Doctor Project, and a member of the Universities of Sanctuary National Steering Group in the UK. bhudson@lincoln.ac.uk Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions he is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Joao Otavio Benevides Demasi
Joao is currently a Ph.D. student on WTO Law from the University of Maastricht, Netherlands. He is researching the intricacies of the WTO jurisprudence through its most controversial AB cases and is currently working on his dissertation, Challenges to the WTO Appellate Body Legal Interpretations: A Diplomat's Mise-en-Scène.
He is a qualified Brazilian and Portuguese lawyer, with senior experience in international trade law and international contracts. His legal practice is restricted on WTO law and international trade law and has written articles in publications related to the subject. He is a student member of the Society for International Economic Law (SIEL) and the American Society for International Law (ASIL). j.benevidesdemasi@maastrichtuniversity.nl Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Dimitrios Kafteranis
Dimitrios Kafteranis is a PhD candidate under the supervision of Prof. Silvia Allegrezza working on the legal protection of whistle-blowers in the banking and financial sector. Dimitrios has two Bachelor degrees, one in English Language and Literature and one in Law. He holds a Master of Arts in European and International studies and an LL.M in European Economic and Financial Criminal Law. Prior to starting his PhD, Dimitrios was a trainee and assistant of Judge Michail Vilaras at the CJEU.
Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions he is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Anne-Marie Greenslade
Anne Marie is a doctoral researcher at Leeds Beckett University, focusing her research on UK support provisions for survivors of contemporary slavery. She also teaches Public Law and International Human Rights Law.
She has previously been a front-line practitioner in the voluntary and public sectors. Her experience supporting refugee communities in Kosovo fueled her interest in human rights. She later worked alongside the police and CPS as an independent advocate for survivors of rape and sexual abuse. This drove her decision to become a legal scholar and contribute to making the policy changes she wanted to see. Other members can reach out to her for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions she is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting her city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Clare Frances Moran
Clare Frances is lecturer in law at Edinburgh Napier. Her research interests lie in the related fields of international criminal law, international humanitarian law, and international human rights law, with a focus on the application of legal theory to these areas. Her current work focuses on a theory of authority in international criminal law and is due to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. Clare Frances was a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School in 2018 and a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg in 2013.
Other members can reach out to her for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions she is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting her city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Grazia Scocca
Grazia is Ph.D. Candidate in Law at the University of Salerno, under a joint programme with the University of Strasbourg. The purpose of her research activity relates to business and human rights issues, focusing on the responsibility of the transnational corporations impacting on public health and the protection of the environment. Her study domain includes also International Law, Human Rights Law, Environmental Law and Sustainable Development.
Grazia has research experiences at the Hague Academy of International Law, the European University Institute, the Max Plank Institute, the Sant’Anna School and the University of Strasbourg. In 2018, Grazia was awarded with the Cassini French Prize for Ph.D. students and young researchers, for a project on Climate Change and Cultural Apocalypse. Other members can reach out to her for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions she is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting her city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Peter Dunne
Peter is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol Law School and an Associate Member of Garden Court Chambers, London. He researches on LGBT+ rights. Peter currently serves as the Senior Expert for Sexual Orientation with the European Equality Law Network. From 2017-2018, Peter (with Dr Marjolein van den Brink) undertook EU-funded research on transgender and intersex equality rights in Europe. At present, supported by the SLSA, Peter (with Dr Maria Moscati) is exploring the voice of transgender children in England. Peter is the EU Charter Editor for the European Human Rights Law Review and the Family Law Co-convenor for the Society of Legal Scholars.
pd17563@bristol.ac.uk Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions he is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
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Andrii Zharikov |
Stelios Andreadakis |
Floris is working on a PhD in international law at Leiden University (NL), which touches both international humanitarian law (IHL) and human rights law (HRL). It specifically concerns states' duties to investigate violations of IHL and HRL during armed conflict, the central research question focusing on the exact scope and contents of a duty to investigate under the law as it stands.
Beyond his research, Floris is involved In the teaching of international at Leiden University, and he has also taught practitioners in the humanitarian field in Geneva, for the Organisation of Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection (PHAP). He was previously managing editor for the Netherlands Journal for Human Rights, and worked for one of the Research Division of the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, where he co-drafted the case-law guide to Article 18 of the ECHR. Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions he is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Andrii obtained his LLB (Hons) from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine) and LLM in International Trade Law (with distinction) from the University of Essex. Following completion of his studies, Andrii worked as a commercial law associate with leading law firms in Ukraine. In October 2016, Andrii joined Aston University to conduct a research project on the theory of lex mercatoria and specifically its use in the area of trade finance. Andrii teaches commercial law and dispute resolution and has authored a number of articles in the areas of his interest.
zharikoa@aston.ac.uk Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Stelios is a Senior Lecturer in Corporate and Financial Law and Director of Postgraduate Programmes. Dr Andreadakis’ research interests are in the areas of Corporate Law and EU Law. He is particularly interested in corporate governance and his current work focuses on the role of whistle-blowers in modern corporate governance and the role of corporate culture in the strengthening of whistle-blower protection worldwide.
Stelios has also written extensively on the accession of the EU to the ECHR, the process of European integration as well as the future of human rights protection in the EU. stelios.andreadakis@brunel.ac.uk |
Pranav Menon |
Marcelo Carvalho-Loureiro |
Asset Kussaiyn |
Pranav Menon completed his BA/LLB degree from Symbiosis Law School, Pune (India). He specialized in intellectual property and media laws in India. While pursuing his undergraduate degree, he attained a certificate in Indian Cyber Laws from the Indian Law Institute, a diploma in Media Law from Symbiosis Law School, Pune, and another diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Management from Enhelion and the Gujarat National Law University. After graduating in 2016, Pranav enrolled in Penn State Law of the Pennsylvania State University to pursue his Masters (LLM). He focused on International Commercial Arbitration and Litigation. After writing and passing the New York Bar Examination, he is currently pursuing his SJD at Penn State with a Doctoral dissertation focused on the legal aspects of posthumous existence through the use of technology.
Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions he is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city |
Marcelo Carvalho-Loureiro is currently a PhD candidate in Law at the University of Birmingham. He holds an LLB and PGDip in Human Rights from Coimbra University. He is also a Laurea Specialistica in Crossing the Mediterranean form the University of Venice, a Master of Social Sciences in Inter-Mediterranean migrations from the University of Montpellier III and a Magister in Intercultural Mediation from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. All of which, he was awarded with first class honours.
His research interests gravitate around the intersection between constitutional theory, comparative law and nationality with post-colonialism in the contexts of Latin America, the European Union and the Mediterranean. mxc858@student.bham.ac.uk Other members can reach out to him for: ✔ Advice on visiting/working at institutions he is associated with ✔ Showing around/sharing a coffee when visiting his city ✔ Collaboration on research, writing projects and grant applications |
Asset Kussaiyn is from Kazakhstan. He is currently pursuing his PhD at the China University of Political Science and Law, where his research focuses on dispute resolution in the Belt and Road Initiative.
Before joining the Penn State Law LLM-program, Asset was practicing in one of the leading law firms in Kazakhstan, where he was involved in the dispute resolution division, actively working with arbitration and litigation matters in courts of the United Kingdom and the Bahamas. He is a STIP Foundation scholarship awardee at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2019. |