BIICL - Key Persons


Aditi Shetye

Job Titles:
  • Researcher in Public International Law
  • Researcher in Public International Law and Environmental Law
Biography Aditi works as a researcher in Public International Law & Environmental Law at BIICL. She specialises in international environmental law and climate change law. Her current work focuses on the Global Perspectives on Corporate Climate Litigation Project in developing the comparative toolbox and other projects on international environmental law. Aditi also sits on the steering committee and is the Legal Advocacy Co-ordinator for the World's Youth for Climate Justice (WYCJ), a global youth-led initiative for the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion (ICJAO) initiative led by the Government of Vanuatu. She has contributed to the Youth Climate Justice Handbook including the Status Report on Principles of International and Human Rights Law Relevant to Climate Change published by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. She is a member of the IUCN, World Commission for Environmental Law (WCEL), Early Career Specialist Group, and the Climate Change Law Specialist Group (CCLSG). She has conducted research for the Ozone Secretariat, United Nations Environment Program. After qualifying as a lawyer in India, Aditi practiced civil and criminal litigation and worked as a judicial clerk at the Bombay High Court with Justice Revati Mohite-Dere and Justice M.S. Karnik. She holds an LL.M in Global Environmental Law and Governance from the University of Strathclyde Glasgow for which she received the Dean's International Excellence Award: Humanities and Social Sciences. She also holds a Post-graduate Diploma in National Environmental Law and Policy from National Law University Delhi, and a B.L.S./LL.B from the University of Mumbai.

Adrian Briggs KC

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Senior Fellow
Professor Adrian Briggs KC joined BIICL as Honorary Senior Fellow in 2021. He is Professor of Private International Law at the University of Oxford. His main interest has always been in private international law, and within that, in questions of civil jurisdiction and the effect of foreign judgments. He spent 15 years as one of the editors of Dicey, Morris and Collins, The Conflict of Laws, but his own perspective on the subject, in its increasingly European guise, was published as Private International Law in English Courts, the first - and, one now supposes, only - edition of which came out in October 2014 and took its place alongside his several other books on private international law, of which Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments is the most established. He also practises from chambers in the Temple.

Alina Holzhausen

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow in Public International Law
  • Research Fellow in Public International Law and Climate Change
Biography Alina Holzhausen is a Researcher Fellow in Public International Law and Climate Change at BIICL. She is also a PhD student at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, researching climate change litigation and human rights. Alina graduated from the University of Bayreuth with a German diploma in law and holds a Maîtrise in International Law (University of Bordeaux) and an LLM in International Law and International Relations (University of Aberdeen). She practised law at the German Parliament before coming to the UK in 2019. Alina has been teaching tutorials in Constitutional Law in Bayreuth, and tutorials in EU Law, Comparative Law, and Public International Law in Aberdeen. She has also been teaching lectures on Sustainable Development and Renewable Energy for LLM students. Her main research interests include Human Rights Law, Climate Change Law, International Environmental Law and Public International Law.

Amrit Singh

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Senior Fellow
Biography Amrit Singh has been a practising human rights lawyer for the last two decades. Her work focuses on using legal tools to resist contemporary authoritarianism around the world. More specifically, her current research focuses on judicial impartiality viewed in international and comparative perspective. She previously served as Director of the Accountability Division at the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) in New York. During her tenure at OSJI, she authored several human rights reports, conducted advocacy, and engaged in strategic litigation before US courts, the European Court of Human Rights, and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, on a broad range of human rights issues, including those relating to authoritarianism. Prior to joining OSJI, she was a staff lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, where she litigated cases challenging the Bush administration's "war on terror"-related abuses as well as immigrants' rights violations. Her publications include Administration of Torture, Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition, Death by Drone, and Eroding Trust: The UK's Prevent Counter-Extremism Strategy in Health and Education. Amrit has taught at the Yale Law School and the New York University Law School. She received a Juris Doctor (JD) degree from the Yale Law School, an MPhil in Economics from Oxford University, and a BA in Economics from Cambridge University. She is a member of the New York bar.

Andrew Dickinson

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Law at the University of Oxford

Andrew Dickson

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Senior Fellow
Biography Professor Andrew Dickson joined BIICL as Honorary Senior Fellow in 2021. Andrew Dickinson is Professor of Law at the University of Oxford, and a fellow of St Catherine's College. After studying law in Oxford (MA and BCL; St Edmund Hall), Andrew attended the College of Law in Chester before qualifying as a solicitor with Clifford Chance in London. From 2011-2013, he was Professor of Private International Law at the University of Sydney. Professor Dickinson's principal area of research is private international law (conflict of laws), with a focus on the European Union instruments in civil and commercial matters. Andrew is a member of the Mance Committee, the UK Government's Standing Committee on private international law matters.

Anna Riddell-Roberts

Job Titles:
  • ICLQ Managing Editor
  • Managing Editor of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly
Biography Anna Riddell is currently the Managing Editor of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly. From February 2012 to April 2015 she was the BIICL Publications Editor, producing all the Institute's books, annual reports and other publications. She is also currently finishing her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence. Prior to commencing the PhD, she was a Research Fellow in Public International Law at BIICL, and Director of the Institute's Project on Evidence in International Courts and Tribunals. In 2009 she co-authored the study 'Evidence Before the International Court of Justice', published by the Institute, which was cited with approval in the International Court of Justice by Judges Al-Khasawneh and Simma in their Dissenting Opinion in the Case Concerning Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v Uruguay) (20 April 2010). Anna has also published articles on the subject of evidence in international litigation in several refereed journals. She holds LLMs from the European University Institute and the University of Exeter (European Law), an MA from Brasenose College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar of England and Wales by Lincoln's Inn in 2005.

Anthony Wenton

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow in Public International Law at the British Institute of International
Biography Anthony Wenton is Research Fellow in Public International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He is a public international law generalist with particular research interests in jus ad bellum; international human rights law; self-determination; democratic governance; international criminal law and transitional justice; immunities; and rule of law capacity building. Previously, Anthony was the acting Managing Editor of BIICL's flagship publication, the International and Comparative Law Quarterly; a Researcher at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law; and an Instructor on the Bingham Centre's online course on Citizenship and the Rule of Law. He has also worked as Judicial Assistant to Dr Ganna Yudkivska (Judge elected in respect of Ukraine and Section President) at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, and as a Blue Book Trainee Legal Officer at the European Commission in Brussels. In addition to the above roles, Anthony regularly speaks at conferences and provides his services as a legal consultant to a wide range of NGOs, scholars and government officials. He is also much sought after as an experienced editor, having helped many international experts to perfect reports, articles, books and speeches. Anthony has been called to the Bar of England and Wales at Middle Temple. He holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law, for which he was awarded Distinction and received the John Lennon Memorial Scholarship, generously funded by Ms Yoko Ono! He also has a certificate in French Law and Legal Terminology, an LLB, and a BA in French and Hispanic Studies (awarded Distinction in the spoken use of French). Anthony is also a graduate of The Hague Academy of International Law Winter Courses (awarded Certificate of Merit for advocacy skills) and of the United Nations Graduate Study Programme (Geneva).

Arthur Watts

Job Titles:
  • Arthur Watts Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law and Director of Teaching and Training

Aurora Plomer

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus Professor of Intellectual Property
  • Visiting Research Fellow
Biography Aurora Plomer is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual Property and Human Rights at the University of Bristol Law. She joined Bristol Law School in 2016 from the University of Sheffield where she had been Director of the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology, Law and Ethics for ten years. Previously, she was Reader in Law at the University of Nottingham and Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds. She graduated in Philosophy from the University of Lancaster (BA, MA, Ph.D.) and in Law at the University of Manchester (LLB). Research interests relate to the intersection of intellectual property rights, human rights and innovation. Professor Plomer is currently working on a book on Intellectual Property and the Human Rights of Companies in Europe (CUP). The book is the main output of a research project funded by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2020-2022) to investigate the history and rationale for the extension of human rights to companies in the European Convention on Human Rights. In 2022, she was senior fellow at the School of Law of the London School of Economics in connection with the Leverhulme project. Her research was published in the LSE Legal Studies working papers series in June 2022: 'Trading Intellectual Property Rights in Europe: from IP Nationalism to International IP'' Between 2016 and 2020, she was a collaborator on an international project funded by the Academy of Finland Constitutional Hedges of Intellectual Property led by Prof. Tuomas Mylly. The project addresses the ways in which IP, investment Treaties and fundamental rights fence IP protection in Europe. Her chapter 'A Market Friendly Paradigm for IP Rights and Human Rights in Europe' can be accessed in the open access collection edited by J. Griffiths & T. Mylly, Global Intellectual Property and the New Constitutionalism (OUP, 2022). Other recent research has focused on the institutional structure of the European patent system The Unified Patent Court and the Transformation of the European Patent System (2020). In 2014, she was a Senior Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence where she researched the history of patent harmonization in Europe leading to the creation of the Unified Patent Court . Her book Patents, Human Rights and Access to Science (Edward Elgar, 2015) examines the historical and moral foundations of the right to access the benefits of science in international law (UDHR and ESCR) and the implications for current debates on the monopolies created by patents in the life sciences. She has continued this line of research in a chapter 'IP Rights and Human Rights: What History tells us and why it matters' in an open access collection edited by H. Porsdam & Porsdam Mann 'The Right to Science then and now' (CUP, 2021). In September 2017, she was invited to take part in a high-level international meeting on Innovation for Sustainable Development organized by UNESCO and the Mexican state of Guanajuato. Her presentation on 'Patents, Biotechnology and Global Justice' drew on examples of R&D public-private partnerships in Europe to highlight the challenges in integrating the protection of fundamental human rights with IP rights. An expanded version of her presentation'IP Right & Human Rights for Innovation and Sustainable Development' has been published by UNESCO (2018). Professor Plomer was a member of the European Commission's panel of ethics experts on new technologies, health, and innovation in the FP7 and Horizon 2020 programs. She has been a visiting fellow at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley; the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Stanford, the University of Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, and the LSE school of law. Her research has been funded by UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the European Commission, the Brocher Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, the British Academy, and the ESRC.

Bart Kolerski

Job Titles:
  • Database and Systems Manager

Bradley Dawson

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Manager
Biography Bradley Dawson is the Marketing Manager at BIICL. Bradley began working at the Institute in April 2016. His role focuses on developing and implementing coherent and consistent marketing communications across all parts of the Institute. Bradley has experience in key marketing and communications disciplines, including email marketing, graphic design, social media, web development, brand management and content marketing. He graduated with a first class degree in Business Information Technology in 2012.

Carmel Brown

Job Titles:
  • Director of Marketing and Communications

Chansuk Park

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Research Fellow
Chansuk Park joined BIICL as Visiting Research Fellow in 2023. She has worked in the South Korean government and is currently a Deputy Director of the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO). She was in charge of policies that supported strengthening intellectual property both governmental agencies and private enterprises. She also oversaw the main law of the KIPO, namely the Invention Promotion Act and the Design Protection Act, driving amendments to both laws to promote innovation and design creation. Her career includes experience as a trademark examiner as well.

Chiann Bao

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Senior Fellow
Biography Chiann Bao joined BIICL as Honorary Senior Fellow in 2019. She practises as an independent arbitrator and mediator and has previously practice as counsel at international law firms in Hong Kong and New York. Chiann is a Vice President of the International Chamber of Commerce, Court of Arbitration and Chair of the ICC Commission Task Force on ADR. Between 2010 and 2018, she served as Secretary General and then Council Member of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. In these institutional roles, Chiann has advised governments on drafting arbitration legislation, local dispute resolution policies and strategies for promoting arbitration and mediation. She is currently working with several arbitration institutions with the establishment of their arbitration rules. Chiann regularly speaks and writes on the topic of international arbitration and dispute resolution.

Chin Lim

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Senior Fellow
Professor Chin Lim joined BIICL as Honorary Senior Fellow in 2019. He is the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, practises as an international member of Keating Chambers, London, and is also a Visiting Professor at King's College, London. He has been a tenured full professor and senior administrator at both of Hong Kong's traditional universities since 2007 and served on a trade and industry committee which advises Hong Kong's Commerce Secretary. Chin was tenured previously at Singapore's NUS, returning subsequently as the Class of '61's inaugural Lionel Astor Sheridan Visiting Professor. His early career had involved negotiating and writing treaties, primarily commercial and investment treaties, and providing legal representation to the Republic of Singapore, serving as a UN secretariat lawyer in Geneva administering war compensation and as liaison with the Government of Iraq, lecturing at Queen Mary & Westfield College as it then was, and before that at Aberystwyth. He went on to advise, though not alone, a new nation's PM's office on an international matter and is a former Director of the Singapore Society of International Law. His writings are cited by appellate courts, most recently concerning two investment treaty matters, bar associations, in a legislative inquiry and in Royal Commission and International Law Commission reports. He has spoken at the invitation of China's MOFCOM, the Malaysian Central Bank, the UKFCO, Australia's DFAT, intergovernmental bodies (the European Commission, WTO, UNESCAP, ADB, amongst others), at the sidelines of TPP negotiations and UNCITRAL WGIII, at universities (Penn, NYU, Tokyo, Geneva, Peking, Melbourne, Duke, Harvard, Tufts, Oxford, Seoul) and at various institutes - including the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and Colombo's Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute. He has spoken at the NYSBA's, ASIL's, KLRCA's, HKIAC's, CIETAC's, DAA's, GAR's and AsiaLaw's events, and at the invitation of law firms. Chin's more recent books include the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to International Arbitration, with a Foreword by Lord Neuberger; Lim, Ho & Paparinskis on International Investment Law and Arbitration (Cambridge, 2018) with a Foreword by Gaillard; Alternative Visions of the International Law on Foreign Investment (Cambridge, 2016), and The Trans-Pacific Partnership (Cambridge, 2012) with Elms and Low. He is Co-General Editor of the principal text on Hong Kong's autonomous legal arrangements, together with J. M. M. Chan.

Clare Priestley

Job Titles:
  • HR & Office Manager
Biography Clare Priestley was promoted to HR & Office Manager at BIICL in October 2018 having joined BIICL in May 2016. She works alongside the BIICL Director and Chief Operating Officer assisting with recruitment, HR and office management. Before joining BIICL she worked for The Council of Deans of Health, UCL, The Thames Estuary Partnership and the marketing recruitment agency Stopgap. She has a degree in History of Art from the University of Warwick and has spent several years working and living in France.

Constance Bonzé

Job Titles:
  • Research Consultant in Private International Law
  • Researcher for the Centre for Comparative Law
Constance Bonzé joined BIICL as a Researcher for the Centre for Comparative Law in 2017. An expert in legal and empirical research on Private International Law and Comparative Law, and more specifically on collective redress, she worked on studies for the European Commission: the State of Collective Redress in the EU (2017) and the Rome II Regulation (2021). She also co-authored research projects on Judicial Cooperation after Brexit (2019), on the New International Commercial Courts (2020), and on collective redress (including the comparative study commissioned by the Swiss Legal Affairs Committees, 2023). Recent publications include 'Judicial dialogue à la Française' published in Social Media, Fundamental Rights and Courts

Darshini Vinal Karania

Job Titles:
  • Finance Officer

David Llewelyn

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Senior Fellow
  • Professor of Law at King 's College London
Biography Professor David Llewelyn joined BIICL as Honorary Senior Fellow in 2020. Professor Llewelyn is a Professor of Law at King's College London and a partner and Head of Intellectual Property at international law firm White & Case in its London office. He is also External Director of the IP Academy Singapore and Honorary Professor in Intellectual Property Law at Hong Kong University. After a period as a NATO Fellow in 1979, Professor Llewelyn spent nearly two years as a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich. In July 1994, he founded Llewelyn Zietman, which grew to a 25-lawyer firm before he left in September 1999 to join White & Case. Professor Llewelyn is one of the "Leading Individuals" in intellectual property named by Chambers' Guide to the Legal Profession and is one of the top 50 trademark lawyers in the world chosen by Euromoney's Managing Intellectual Property.

Deepa Craig - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Finance & Operations
Biography Deepa joined BIICL in November 2022 as Interim Director of Finance and became the permanent Director of Finance & Operations in April 2023. She has previously worked for the Community Foundation for Surrey and the Cripplegate Foundation. Outside of work, Deepa is passionate about community-led projects and is helping to establish a community garden in her local area. She is also a governor of the local primary school. She has degrees in Experimental Psychology and in Fine Art, and has previously worked as a school teacher. Deepa continues to practice art, particularly photography and sculpture.

Diane Denny

Job Titles:
  • Development Director

Dr Christine Bakker

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Research Fellow
Biography Christine holds a PhD in public international law from the European University Institute, Florence, and her main areas of research are human rights law including children's rights, international environmental law and climate change. She has published widely in these fields and has recently co-edited, with Ivano Alogna and Jean-Pierre Gauci, the edited volume Climate Change Litigation: Global Perspectives (Brill Publ., 2021). She also carried out research for the Unicef Innocenti Research Centre in Florence, and previously worked at the European Commission (DG Development), as a Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, as an Adjunct Professor at LUISS University, Rome, and as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Rome-3. In addition to her Visiting Fellowship at BIICL, she is also an Affiliated Researcher at the DIRPOLIS Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy.

Dr Ciara Hackett

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Research Fellow
Biography Dr Ciara Hackett Joined BIICL as a Visiting Research Fellow in 2024. Ciara is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast. Her research focuses on the intersection between business and human rights. She is particularly interested in how corporations, international and domestic law have shaped the corporate obligation to respect human rights and how, in cases where these obligations have not been fulfilled, a remedy can be sought. Regarding remedy, she researches access to and enforcement of remedy. She is further interested in the corporate form, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. Ciara is the author of a monograph entitled "Development in an era of Capital Control" (published by Palgrave in 2017). This focussed on the relationship between and within states and other organisations and the impact this has had on regulatory capital. Her current research investigates how the language of international guidelines within business and human rights equips and empowers corporations to respect human rights. In so doing, she is interested in the effect that this has had on those seeking a remedy as a result of human rights violations caused by corporate harm. Whilst at BIICL, she will be developing her research on (1) the language contained within Pillar II of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and (2) what motivates a corporate actor to be responsible.

Dr Claire Bright

Job Titles:
  • Associate Research Fellow at the British Institute of International
  • Associate Research Fellow in Business and Human Rights
  • Research Assistant at the Centre for Socio - Legal Studies
Biography Dr Claire Bright is an Associate Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, as well as an Assistant Professor in Private Law at Nova Law School in Lisbon. She specialises in Business and Human Rights. Claire regularly organizes events and delivers short courses and trainings in the field. Her work to date has resulted in a number of peer reviewed publications in English, French, Italian and Spanish, including in the following journals: International & Comparative Law Quarterly, Business and Politics, Business and Human Rights Journal, the European Yearbook on Human Rights, Droit Social, Revista Española de Derecho international and the Anuario español de derecho internacional privado. She has also contributed to various expert studies and policy reports for NGOs, Governments, international organizations, as well as for the European institutions including:

Dr Constantinos Yiallourides

Job Titles:
  • Research Leader in Law of the Sea
  • Research Leader in the Law of the Sea
Dr Constantinos Yiallourides is Research Leader in Law of the Sea at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) where he leads the Institute's Watts Programme of research, training, and events in the law of the sea and global ocean governance. He is also Lecturer in International Law at Macquarie University, School of Law, Sydney. He was previously lecturer in international law at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, post-doctoral researcher in energy law and policy at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and visiting scholar-in-residence at Waseda University, Institute for Advance Study, Japan. Research Leader in the Law of the Sea +44 (0)20 7862 5151 c.yiallourides@biicl.org @ConstantinYiall

Dr Guan H. Tang

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Senior Fellow

Dr Irene Pietropaoli

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow in Business & Human Rights

Dr Ivano Alogna

Job Titles:
  • Research Leader in Environmental and Climate Change Law

Dr Jack Kenny

Job Titles:
  • Research Leader in International Law

Dr Jan van Zyl Smit

Job Titles:
  • Acting Director, Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law

Dr Jean-Pierre Gauci

Job Titles:
  • Arthur Watts Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law and Director of Teaching and Training

Dr Julinda Beqiraj

Job Titles:
  • Maurice Wohl Senior Fellow in European Law

Dr Kateryna Busol

Job Titles:
  • British Academy Research Fellow

Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow in Competition Law and Director, Competition Law Forum

Dr Nicole A. Pierce

Job Titles:
  • Associate Researcher

Dr Noemi Magugliani

Job Titles:
  • Research Leader in Anti - Trafficking Law and Policy

Dr Oliver Garner

Job Titles:
  • Maurice Wohl Research Leader in European Rule of Law

Dr Rosana Garciandia

Job Titles:
  • Research Leader in Labour Exploitation and Human Rights

Dr Samantha Jn Paul-Samuel

Job Titles:
  • Key Expert, CARICOM Consultancy Project

Dr Sara Razai

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow & International Projects Lead

Dr Sofia Gonzalez De Aguinaga

Job Titles:
  • Research Leader in Business, ESG & Modern Slavery

Dr Tufyal Choudhury

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow on National Security and the Rule of Law

Dr Vincent Smith

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Senior Fellow

Dr Virginie Barral

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Research Fellow

Dr. Adriana Giunta

Job Titles:
  • a Visiting Research Fellow
  • Visiting Research Fellow
Biography Dr. Adriana Giunta joined BIICL as a Visiting Research Fellow in 2024. In BIICL, Adriana is working on her monograph on Indigenous Peoples' Environmental Rights under International Law and she is undergoing studies on Defining Environmental Rights under International Law. Her research focuses on climate change litigations, environmental rights, businesses and human rights, and the intersection between indigenous peoples' rights, sustainable development and climate justice. She has taught and researched human rights, indigenous peoples, climate change, the environment and international law, as a Lecturer in the United Kingdom, and as a Visiting Research Fellow at the NIEM/Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland in Finland. Previously, she worked for several human rights NGOs, including Amnesty International. Adriana holds a PhD in public international law from Brunel University London, an LL.M in International Human Rights Law, and a B.A. in Law and Human Rights from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. Adriana published with the United Nations Environment Programme the book chapter: 'Can an Ecocentric Approach Open New Frontiers for a Legally Binding International Environmental Right? A Study of Norway's Environmental Constitutional Right' in Erin Daly, Louis Kotze, James May, Caiphas Soyapi, Arnold Kreilhuber, Lara Ognibene and Angela Kariuki (eds.), New Frontiers in Global Environmental Constitutionalism (United Nations Environment Programme, 2017). Her research on environmental rights was recently cited among other scholars by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) second report on Environmental Rule of Law: Tracking Progress and Charting Future Direction, 2023.

Duncan Fairgrieve

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow in Comparative Law
Biography Duncan Fairgrieve is Senior Research Fellow in Comparative Law and Director of the Product Liability Forum at the Institute. He is also Professor of Comparative Law at Université de Paris Dauphine in France. Duncan Fairgrieve is a leading comparative lawyer, with research interests spanning both comparative private and public law, with specific focus on three specific areas, comparative administrative law (with a particular interest in state liability), comparative law of obligations (in particular product liability and the law of torts), as well as comparative law methodology. He was educated at King's College London, Oxford University and the Sorbonne, Paris. Duncan Fairgrieve has published many books and articles in leading journals worldwide, in both English and French, including 18 authored or edited books and numerous articles on comparative law topics. He edited the festschrifts for Lord Slynn, and Lord Bingham; the latter was entitled Tom Bingham and the Transformation of the Law and published by OUP in both hardback and paperback , including over fifty essays from distinguished jurists around the world. Professor Fairgrieve's book entitled Droits et Libertés en France et au Royaume-Uni, published by leading French publisher Odile Jacob, was awarded the prestigious Henri Texier Prize by the French Academy. He published a monograph in 2016 entitled Comparative law in Practice: Contract Law in a Mid-Channel Jurisdiction , and his latest book is the Second Edition of Negligence Liability of Public Authorities , co-authored with Dan Squires QC. He is currently working on the 3rd Edition of the OUP book, Product Liability , with Professor Richard Goldberg. His work has been cited by the courts, including judges of the Court of Appeal and House of Lords / Supreme Court as well as Rapporteur Public Seban before the French Conseil d'Etat. He is currently working on a series of research projects, including European law, tort law, product liability, comparative public law and the topic of compliance & regulation. He was appointed in 2018 to the European Commission's Expert Group on Product Liability, responsible for reviewing the operation of the Product Liability Directive and for drafting guidance on the application of the Directive. Duncan Fairgrieve is also a qualified French avocat, as well as an English Barrister, practising from One Crown Office Row , where he has appeared in cases at all levels of the English and French courts, including appearing before French & English Courts of Appeal and the UK Supreme Court. He regularly provides expert evidence on comparative law issues in domestic and foreign proceedings.

Florence Skinner

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Development Director

Georgia Greville

Job Titles:
  • Researcher in Labour Exploitation and Human Rights

Gerard Sanders

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Senior Fellow

Helen Dodds

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Senior Fellow

Ingrid Gubbay

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Research Fellow

Iris Anastasiadou

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow in Public International Law and Migration

Jasmine Elliott

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow in Business and Human Rights

John Trajer

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow in Anti - Trafficking Law and Policy

Judge Tomas Heidar

Job Titles:
  • Judge
  • Honorary Senior Fellow

Katie Lines

Job Titles:
  • Research Leader, Independent Commission on UK Public Health Emergency Powers

Kristin Hausler

Job Titles:
  • Dorset Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law and Director, Centre for International Law

Leigham Strachan

Job Titles:
  • Events Manager

Lucy Moxham

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow, Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law

Mariia Tymofiienko

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate in Online Court Concept Development in Ukraine

Maurice Wohl

Job Titles:
  • Maurice Wohl Research Leader in European Rule of Law
  • Maurice Wohl Senior Fellow in European Law

Murray Hunt

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Bingham Centre and Director of the Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre

Ndanga Kamau

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Senior Fellow

Nigel Pleming KC

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Senior Fellow

Ola Ugwu

Job Titles:
  • Head of Public and Youth Engagement Programme

Patricia Ambrose

Job Titles:
  • Governance & Research Adviser

Paul C. Saunders

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Senior Fellow

Phil Evans

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director of the Competition Law Forum / Professor Sir Malcolm D. Evans, KCMG, OBE, FLSW

Philip Kessler

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Senior Fellow

Sir Bernard Rix

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Senior Fellow

Sir Jonathan Faull

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Senior Fellow

Sir William Blair

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Senior Fellow

Tetyana Antsupova

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Vicky Bowman

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Senior Fellow

Victoria Wyndham

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Development Director - Programmes

William Knatchbull

Job Titles:
  • Research and Programmes Officer