GLAWCAL - Key Persons


Alberto Alemanno

Job Titles:
  • Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Law and Risk Regulation

Bryan Mercurio

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Carlo Vittorio Giabardo

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Chen Haoyu

Job Titles:
  • Fellow
  • Visiting Researcher from Peking University School of Government, Beijing ( PRC )
Chen Haoyu is a Fellow at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development and was a Visiting Researcher at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development in the framework of the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES under REA grant agreement n°317767, Acronym of the Project: LIBEAC (2011-2016) "Liberalism In Between Europe And China -Assessing the Socio-Cultural and Politico-Legal Dimensions of the Differences in Terms of Interpretation and Enforcement of Economic, Social and Environmental Rights in Europe and China".

Daniel A. Bell

Job Titles:
  • Dean of the School of Political Science
  • Professor
Dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University and professor at Tsinghua University (Schwarzman College and Department of Philosophy).

Davide Giacomo Zoppolato

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
Davide Giacomo Zoppolato, since November 2019, is a PhD candidate in Global Studies: Justice, Rights and Politics at the University of Macerata, Italy. Since July 2016, Davide Zoppolato has been a Research Associate and Project Manager at gLAWcal -Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (United Kingdom) working on Chinese law and politics. Mr. Zoppolato was visiting research fellow in China (Beijing Normal University 2017 and Beijing Foreign Studies University 2018)and in the US (West Virginia University 2019). In 2016-2017 he was EU Commission Marie Curie Fellow Scholar at Beijing Normal University for the project ‘Partnering Opportunities Between Europe China in the Renewable Energies and Environmental Industries' (POREEN). InJ une 2016, he obtained his combined J.D./LL.M. at Faculty of Law, University ofTurin, Italy. Since January 2015, he has been one of the founding members and editor of Global Politics Review (http://www.globalpoliticsreview.com/). He spent more than four years in China to study Chinese language, law and politics(Chengdu University, East China Normal University, Tianjin University, Beijing Foreign Studies University). His main research areas of interest are Chinese Law and politics, International Economic Law and Global Administrative Law. Italian native speaker, he is fluent in English, Chinese and French.

Deng Haifeng

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Visiting Scholar from Tsinghua University, Beijing ( PRC )
Professor Deng Haifeng has been member of the research team of 20 relevant projects concerning the Nature resource Law, energy law and the Environmental management, such as 1) Studies on Clean development mechanism between China and Japan, 2) Studies on the management system of environmental NGOs, 3) Studies on the creation of environmental economy and the creation environmental law. Through above research activities, Professor Deng had published 31 academic papers, 3 books and an encyclopedia of environmental law.

Diana Kate Wambui Wahome

Job Titles:
  • Intern
Diana Kate Wambui WAHOME since August 2018 is an Intern at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development and she is currently an advocate trainee at the Kenya School of Law in Nairobi, Kenya. Ms. WAHOME graduated from Moi University School of Law, Kenya with an undergraduate degree in law with a final dissertation focusing on the human rights impact on socio-economic right of sexual and reproductive health right of refugees in Kenya. In July 2018, she attended the "Summer Institute on Intellectual Property Rights and China" (IP-China) organized by West Virginia University (USA) and gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (United Kingdom) held at the Law School of the Beijing Foreign Studies University in Beijing, China. In August 2016, Diana attended the Jean Monnet programme on EU law of the sea in Bremen, Germany on trade and economic policy and in July 2017, Ms. WAHOME attended a summer programme in international law at the Xiamen Academy, Xiamen, China. Ms. WAHOME is fluent in English and Swahili

Dias Simões, Fernando

Job Titles:
  • Charanne and Construction Investments V. Spain
Friends with Benefits? Amicus Curiae in the TPP Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanism Dias Simões, Fernando, Friends with Benefits? Amicus Curiae in the TPP Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanism (June 2017). in Julien Chaisse, Henry Gao, and Chang-fa Lo (eds.), Paradigm Shift in the Rule Making of International Economic Law (Springer, 2017 Forthcoming).

Dr. CHENG Lihua

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar from Tsinghua University, Beijing ( PRC )
Dr. CHENG Lihua, PhD is is Fellow at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development and was EU Marie Curie Fellow and Visiting Scholar (2015-2016) at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development in the framework of the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh

Dr. Francesco BESTAGNO

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate

Dr. Gilbert Michaud

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate
  • Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Gilbert Michaud is a Senior Research Associate at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (United Kingdom). He is also an Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy at the School of Environmental Sustainability at Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Gilbert Michaud is a Senior Research Fellow at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (United Kingdom). He is also an Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy at the School of Environmental Sustainability at Loyola University Chicago. Michaud serves as a Faculty Affiliate at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Michaud has published academic papers in journals such as the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, The Electricity Journal, and Economic Development Quarterly, among other scholarly venues. He is author or co-author of over 80 technical reports and commentary pieces, and has been quoted in several national news media outlets, including NPR, The Associated Press, Forbes, and Bloomberg Law. He currently serves as the national policy chair for the American Solar Energy Society (ASES), and has also served as a guest editor for a special issue of Solar Energy journal focused on solar policy and economics for climate action. Previously, Michaud was a faculty member at the George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service at Ohio University. He holds a PhD in Public Policy and Administration from the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), as well as a certificate in Data Analytics from Cornell University.

Dr. HAN Xiao

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar from Tsinghua University, Beijing ( PRC )

Dr. JIA Peitao

Job Titles:
  • EU Marie Curie Fellow
Dr. JIA Peitao is EU Marie Curie Fellow and Visiting Scholar (2015-2016) at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development in the framework of the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES under REA grant agreement n°317767, Acronym of the Project: LIBEAC (2011-2016) "Liberalism In Between Europe And China - Assessing the Socio-Cultural and Politico-Legal Dimensions of the Differences in Terms of Interpretation and Enforcement of Economic, Social and Environmental Rights in Europe and China".

Dr. JIANG Yuhao

Job Titles:
  • Fellow
  • Harvard Legal Professor
  • Visiting Scholar from Tsinghua University, Beijing ( PRC )
Dr. JIANG Yuhao, PhD is Fellow at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development and was Visiting Scholar at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development in the framework of the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES under REA grant agreement n°317767, Acronym of the Project: LIBEAC (2011-2016) "Liberalism In Between Europe And China -Assessing the Socio-Cultural and Politico-Legal Dimensions of the Differences in Terms of Interpretation and Enforcement of Economic, Social and Environmental Rights in Europe and China". Dr. JIANG Yuhao is a Postdoctoral Fellow of School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University in Beijing. He holds his PhD degree in Graduate of School of Chinese Academy of Social Science in 2011. Dr. JIANG Yuhao's research interests focus on Network Governance, Legal Reform and Social Change in China, Constitutional Theory, Regulation and Public Law. He has published several books and articles on Freedom of Speech on the Internet, Political Participation, the Spirit of Rule of Law, Legal Practices in Chinese Cities. Dr. JIANG Yuhao is also translating Harvard legal professor and contemporary thinker Roberto Mangabeira Unger's works into Chinese. A native Chinese speaker, he is fluent in English.

Dr. Sabrina Urbinati

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate
Dr. Sabrina Urbinati is Senior Research Associate at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development. She is an Expert of International and European Union Law. Her main areas of research are the international protection of cultural heritage and of the environment. Dr. Sabrina Urbinati is Senior Research Associate at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development. She is an Expert of International and European Union Law. Until 2021 she collaborated as Associate Researcher in international law at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy). She obtained her double PhD in International Law from University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris, France) and the University of Milan (Milan, Italy). Dr. Sabrina Urbinati's main areas of research are the international protection of cultural heritage and of the environment, but she has been involved in several national, international and European research projects concerning these same topics and several others, such as the law of the sea, tourism, human rights and humanitarian law. Her expertise on these topics has resulted in several national and international publications and presentations at conferences, as well as in collaborations with several important research centres such as the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) and the Cultural Law Research Centre of China (China). Since 2006 she has been in charge of teaching seminars on international law and international organisation, the protection of the environment and the protection of cultural property and heritage at the School of Law of the University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy). Finally, since 2000, she has acted as legal expert of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in several negotiations and international meetings at UNESCO. In 2012 and 2013 she also acted as legal expert of the ACCOBAMS Secretariat and ASPACI (an Italian NGO specialised on the protection of intangible cultural heritage).

Duan Xiaomei

Job Titles:
  • Fellow
  • Research Fellow
  • Visiting Scholar
Visiting Scholar from Tsinghua University, Beijing (PRC) and Director of Examination Division, Trademark Review and Adjudication Board (TRAB), State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), People's Republic of China Duan Xiaomei is a Fellow at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development and was a Visiting Scholar at gLAWcal (2015-2016) - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development in the framework of the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technology Development under the funding scheme of IRSES: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme n°317767, Acronym of the Project: LIBEAC "Liberalism In Between Europe And China - Assessing the Socio-Cultural and Politico-Legal Dimensions of the Differences in Terms of Interpretation and Enforcement of Economic, Social and Environmental Rights in Europe and China". Duan Xiaomei works as contract research fellow of Innovation & Competition Law Center of Tsinghua University, School of Law and she is Director of Examination Division, Trademark Duan Xiaomei joined in SAIC in 1997 after graduation from Xi'an Jiao tong University. When worked in Adjudication Division I, Duan set some kinds of model cases related to well-known trademark, international trademarks under the Madrid System, co-owner trademarks, geographical indications and so on. After promotion as deputy-director of Adjudication Division V in 2008, Duan audited, signed and issued nearly 17,000 trademark cases rulings made by other examiners during four years. From 2012, Duan has been working as head of Formality Examination Division. Duan has participated in the third revision of Chinese Trademark Law, and its Implementation Regulations, Trademark Review and Adjudication Rules in 2013-2014. Following that, Duan as policy maker in charge of formality examination of trademark review and adjudication cases all around the country, made some enforcement regulations and 65 kinds of procedural document templates according to the revision of Chinese Trademark Law. Duan has stipulated several requirements and guidance on the submission of Trademark Review and Adjudication cases and evidences to regulate and guide more than 20,000 trademark service organizations and law firms engaging in trademark agency business. In 2016, Duan took part in the negotiation on Agreement between the EU and the PRC on cooperation on and protection of GIs. Duan Xiaomei was granted a six-month study-cum-research fellowship by WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) in 2010 and submitted a report on "Conflict between Trademark Right and Prior Copyright" to WIPO, which was translated to Chinese version and published by Chinese Intellectual Property Right publishing house in 2012. In 2013, Duan was invited as special author of "Brand and Trademark", which is published as primary and secondary school textbook on IP rights education under a program organized by State Intellectual Property Office. In 2015, Duan worked as special writer of Interpretation of Article 32 of Chinese Trademark Law - no preemptive application by any unfair means of a trademark which has been prior used by another person and has a certain influence shall be allowed for registration, which is a part of work in the book Interpretation and Application of Chinese Trademark Law jointly compiled by CTMO (China Trademark Office) and TRAB. Duan has made public speeches several times each year about adjudicating standards and typical cases analysis relating to various articles of law and all types of cases in trademark review and adjudication proceedings on invitations from China Intellectual Property Society, China Trademark Association, All China Lawyers Association, Law School of Tsinghua University and some other institutions such as QBPC (Quality Brands Protection Committee of China Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment) or MIP (Managing Intellectual Property). Duan has given lectures for on-line training courses for government workers throughout AIC (Administration for Industry and Commerce) system in all level all around China or for lawyer's annual practice qualification. Besides, Duan has published papers on topics such as cracking down on trademark registration in bad faith and others on China Intellectual Property News, China Trademark magazine and so on. A native Chinese speaker, she is fluent in English.

East Asian Law

Job Titles:
  • Energy Law

Federico Lorenzo Ramaioli

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate
Federico Lorenzo Ramaioli is an Italian jurist and lawyer. He is a diplomat of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, presently serving as Deputy Head of Mission of the Italian Embassy in Doha. He was research assistant at the Chairs of Philosophy of Law and Legal Methodology in the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan. His publications include monographs and articles in comparative law and philosophy of law. Federico Lorenzo Ramaioli is Senior Research Associate at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (United Kingdom). He is an Italian jurist and lawyer, researching in comparative law and philosophy of law from a culturally oriented perspective, with special reference to East Asia and the Muslim world, and to the ways in which Western law interacts with non-Western legal conceptions in the framework of constitutional documents and charters. His most recent publications include monographs and articles in English and Italian, with a particular focus on the historical evolution of Japanese law and the legal conception of Islamic fundamentalism. He took part in conferences and seminars.

Fernando Dias Simões

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate
  • Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Professor Dias Simões is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China)

Francesco Adamo

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate / Emeritus Professor of Geography, Development Studies and Planning.

Francesco Parisi

Job Titles:
  • Oppenheimer Wolff and Donnelly Professor of Law / University of Minnesota

Gabrielle Marceau

Job Titles:
  • Counsellor in the Legal Affairs Division
  • Professor of Law
Gabrielle Marceau Professor of Law at the University of Geneva and Counsellor in the Legal Affairs Division of the WTO World Trade Organization (WTO), University of Geneva (Switzerland) and President of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL)

Gregory Hagen

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean ( Research ) and the Director of Graduate Programs at the University of Calgary / University of Calgary

Han Yuquan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Researcher at Department of Civil Engineering
  • Visiting Scholar from Tsinghua University, Beijing ( PRC )
Han Yuquan is a Senior Researcher at Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University with research projects on the "Utilization of Industrial by-products for Manufacture of Building Materials in China", funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China in Beijing. Han Yuquan is also Senior Researcher at the Center for Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Law of Tsinghua University (THCEREL) with research projects on the "Sustainable Landfill Materials and Technology in China", funded by the Chinese Ceramic Society. He obtained his Bachelor Degree (1974-1978) in Civil Engineering from Tongji University in Shanghai with a thesis about "The Trend of Modern Building Materials". From 1978 to 1986, he worked as a Technician in Wuhan Iron and Steel Company Limited. From 1986 to 1989, he continued his studies to earn a Master Degree in Han Yuquan has been also a Visiting Scholar at Tokyo Institute of Technology (2002) and California Institute of Technology (2006). As one of the Chinese leading scholars in the field of Sustainable Building Materials, in 1998, he became one of the standing directors of the Technical Committee of Building Materials, and in 2000 of the Chinese Architecture Society and Chinese Ceramic Society.

Harold S. Shefelman

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Law

Imad Antoine Ibrahim

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager
  • Senior Research Associate
  • Rafael Dean Brown & Jon Mark Truby, Big Data and Its Impact on Basin Water Agreements and International Water Law
In 2022, Imad Antoine Ibrahim has been promoted and appointed as a Senior Research Associate at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiative for Sustainable Development. He was Research Associate and Project Manager at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiative for Sustainable Development from 2014 to 2022. He is also an Assistant Research Professor and Research Projects Manager at the Center for Law and Development (CLD), College of Law, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. Imad Antoine Ibrahim, "Ensuring Access to Affordable, Reliable, Sustainable and Modern Energy in the MENA Region: Legal, Institutional and Policy Developments"; Journal of World Energy Law Business (Oxford University Press 2022) (Forthcoming). Imad Antoine Ibrahim, "Overview of Export Restrictions on COVID-19 Vaccines and their Components", 25(10) American Society of International Law (ASIL) Insights. 1-6 (2021), https://www.asil.org/insights/volume/25/issue/10 Imad Antoine Ibrahim, "The Importance of International Water Law to the Successful Implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative: Evidence from Central Asia", In Giuseppe Martinico & Xueyan Wu (eds.), A Legal Analysis Of The Belt And Road Initiative: Towards A New Silk Road? 145 - 169 (Palgrave Macmillan 2020). Imad Antoine Ibrahim, "The Importance of Internationaln Corruption Law and International Environmental Law to Achieve SDG16: An Analysis of Global Instruments Addressing Environmental Corruption", in Higher Education Engages with SDG 16: Peace,Justice and Strong Institutions 88-99 (International Association ofUniversities & United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Publication;November 2021), https://www.iau-aiu.net/Download-the-joint-IAU-UNODC-publication-with-papers-from-young-scholars Imad Antoine Ibrahim, "Blockchain Regulation in Trade Finance in Qatar: A Report of the Experts Views" 1-5 (D5.2.2. (Report) - Transcript of interviews conducted with legal and trade finance collaborators; Project#No: NPRP11C-1229-170007; 2021).

Individual Grant

Job Titles:
  • External Expert in the Framework of the CIRC4Life Project

Jernej Letnar Černič

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate
  • Associate Professor of Human Rights Law at the Graduate School of Government
  • Ernič Is Associate Professor of Human Rights Law at the Graduate School of Government and European Studies ( Ljubljana and Kranj, Slovenia )
Jernej is Associate Professor of Human Rights Law at the Graduate School of Government and European Studies (Ljubljana and Kranj, Slovenia), Senior Research Associate at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (United Kingdom) and Senior Research Fellow at the University Institute of European Studies - IUSE (Turin, Italy). He graduated from University of Ljubljana with the France Prešeren award. He completed his Ph.D. in Human Rights Law in 2009 at the University of Aberdeen. He holds Diploma in Human Rights Law from the European University Institute and Diplome de droit international et de Droit compare des Droits de l'Homme (merit) from René Cassin Institut International des droits de l'homme. He served on the management board of the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency (2012-2017). Jernej has worked in the European Ombudsman's Office, the Superior Court of the Republic of Slovenia, the International Criminal Court, University of Aberdeen, University of Lund, New York University and European University Institute. He has been a principal researcher on several national and European project. He has written extensively on human rights law and international law. Jernej has published articles on human rights, public international law, international criminal law, corporate and investment law, criminal law and European law in Slovenian, English, Italian, Romanian, Spanish and Swedish language. His works have been cited in reports by the United Nations, European Parliament and the Council of Europe and in academic studies from around the world.

Jon Truby

Job Titles:
  • Rafael Dean Brown & Imad Antoine Ibrahim, "a Sandbox Approach to Regulating High - Risk AIs", European Journal of Risk Regulation 1 - 29 ( Cambridge University Press 2021 ) .
  • Rafael Dean Brown, Andrew Dahdal & Imad Antoine Ibrahim, "Blockchain, Climate Damage, and Death

Laurence Boisson de Chazournes

Job Titles:
  • Professor of International Law & Former President of the European Society of International Law ( ESIL )

Liu Mengyao

Job Titles:
  • Intern
Liu Mengyao Intern LIU Mengyao since August 2018 is an Intern at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development and she is a Master Candidate in International Law at Beijing Foreign Studies University in Beijing, China. LIU Mengyao since August 2018 is an Intern at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development and she is a Master Candidate in International Law at Beijing Foreign Studies University in Beijing, China. Ms. LIU Mengyao obtained a Bachelor Degree in Law and English at Beijing Foreign Studies University in Beijing, China in July 2018 with a final dissertation titled "Research on the Featured Financial Legal System of Free Ports". In July 2018, she attended the Summer Institute on Climate Change, Energy and EnvironmentalProtection" (SICCEP) and the "Summer Institute on Intellectual Property Rights and China" (IP-China) organized by West Virginia University (USA) and gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (United Kingdom) held at the Law School of the Beijing Foreign Studies University in Beijing (China). Her major research areas are Environmental Law, Commercial Transaction and Dispute Resolution, Regional Trade Policy and WTO Law. Chinese native speaker, she is fluent in English.

Lukasz Gruszczynski

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Kozminski University, Public International Law Department, Poland

Marie Curie

Job Titles:
  • Fellow at Beijing Normal University

Markus Wagner

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Law, University of Wollongong, Australia

Martin Švec

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
Martin Švec since October 2017 is Part-time Research Associate at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development and a Ph.D. candidate at the Masaryk University Faculty of Law in Brno (Czech Republic)

Matteo Gargantini

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of European Economic Law, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands / University of Utrecht

Mr. Chieh Sheng LIN

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
Mr. Chieh Sheng LIN obtained the Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from Tunghai University and his MBA from National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. Since September 2014, Chieh Sheng LIN has been Research Associate at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development. Mr. Chieh Sheng LIN obtained the Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from Tunghai University and his MBA from National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. After his service in army, now he is a Graduate Student in International Political Economy of Peking University. He was Teaching Assistant for several courses such as Statistics, Research Methods, Business Analysis and Decision Making, Marketing Management,International Business Management and International Political Economy in National Chung Hsing University and Peking University. Since September 2014, Chieh Sheng LIN has been Research Associate at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development. He joined gLAWcal after his participation to the Summer Law Institute with focus on Intellectual Property Rights, Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Protection held at Peking University School of Government. His research interests are International Political Economy, Nation and Market, Research Methods of Social Science, Business Strategy Management, Marketing Management, Regional Trade Policy and Globalization. He is currently Visiting Researcher at West Virginia University, Department of Public Administration under the supervision of Professor Dr. Paolo Farah. He is working on a research project on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement under the perspective of China and the U.S. He is a Mandarin native speaker, he is fluent in Taiwanese, Cantonese, he has a good knowledge of English and he is a beginner in French and Spanish.

Mr. Faran Shoaib Naru

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
Since June 2016, Mr. Faran Shoaib Naru has been a Research Associate at gLAWcal- Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (United Kingdom) Mr. Naru is a PhD Candidate at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. His research is focused on the evolution of global commodity trade as China moves from low to high tech production. He has also collaborated with Beijing University's National School of Development to understand the application of new structural economics to developing countries. In 2010, Mr. Naru obtained a Master Degree in Public Policy (MPP) from Brown University, United States. After that he worked for United Nations Development Program (UNDP), UN Women, and Asian Development Bank (ADB) as consultant, primarily supporting the provincial government of Punjab in Pakistan. Prior to MPP, he obtained his MBA degree in 2005 and worked in the corporate sector of Pakistan for few years. Mr. Naru speaks Urdu, Punjabi, English and Chinese.

Mr. Gabriele LIBERA

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Mr. Marek Prityi

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Mr. Tasha Dawn Frazie

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
Since July 2016, Mr. Tasha Dawn Frazie has been a Research Associate at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (United Kingdom). Ms. Frazie attended West Virginia University where she graduated with two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Foreign Language: Mandarin Chinese and Political Science: International Relations.She obtained her Masters of International Business (MIB) in 2013 from Hult International Business School and in May 2016 her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from West Virginia University College of Law.

Ms Ivana Gaskova

Job Titles:
  • Director of Marketing, Communications and External Relations

Ms. Elena CIMA

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Ms. Enrica Rocca

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
  • Research Associate at GLAWcal, EU
Enrica Rocca, Research Associate at gLAWcal, EU commission Marie Curie Fellow at Beijing Normal University (Beijing, China). Master Degree in European and Transnational Law at the University of Trento, in Italy- specialization: Environmental Law and Energy Law. Ms. Enrica Rocca has obtained her Master Degree in European and Transnational Law at the University of Trento, Italy. She particularly focused on Environmental Law, Energy Law, Climate Change and Administrative Law. She was one of promoters of a project called Right on diversified harvest and ecology, implemented by the Law Faculty. The Right project has been awarded by the city of Trento of the Caracristi 2014 Prize.

Ms. Silvia Polloni

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
Since October 2016, Ms. Silvia Polloni has been a Research Associate at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (United Kingdom). Ms. Polloni attended the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, where she graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Foreign Languages, Mandarin Chinese and English, and International Relations. During her B.A. studies, she studied at BLCU, the Beijing Language and Culture University in China. She obtained her Master Degree of International Relations and European Studies (RISE) in December 2015 from the University of Florence, Italy, when she focused on the Chinese national security policies, the Chinese diplomatic features and the national intelligence system. Since April 2016 Ms. Polloni is attending a Second Level University Master Degree in Intelligence and National Security at the UniLink Campus University of Rome, Italy, where she is focusing on the features of the bailiwick of Intelligence, the different ways to control information and a project work on the Chinese Country Risk Assessment. She is an Italian native speaker, fluent in English and Mandarin, semi-fluent in German and French.

Oppenheimer Wolff

Job Titles:
  • Oppenheimer Wolff and Donnelly Professor of Law / University of Minnesota

Paolo Davide Farah - Founder, President

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Founder
  • President
  • Appointed Member of the International Law Association - ILA Committees
  • Professor
Professor Paolo Davide Farah is Founder, President and Director of gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives forSustainable Development, Associate Professor(with tenure) at West Virginia University, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences,John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics, Department of Public Administration and "Internationally Renowned Professor/Distinguished Professor of Law" (Full Professor level) at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), Law School,Beijing, China. Professor Farah has collaborated in different roles with the European Union Chamber of Commerce in Beijing (China), the China-Italy Chamber of Commerce (CICC) in Beijing (China),Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer - International Law Firm in Beijing (China),Assolombarda (Italian Entrepreneurial Association of Lombardy Region - the largest regional Entrepreneurial Association of Confindustria), ANCI (Italian Association for Shoes Producers), Chamber of Commerce in Milan, Banca Popolare di Milano. Professor Farah was a Guest Editor-in-Chief for the SSCI - Journal of World Energy Law andBusiness (Oxford University Press), Guest Editor-in-Chief for SSCI Journal Sustainability. Professor Farah' work has appeared or is forthcoming, among others, in such journals as the Journal ofInternational Economic Law (Oxford University Press), Journal of World Energy Law and Business (Oxford University Press), Journal of World Trade (Kluwer LawInternational), Legal Issues of Economic Integration (Kluwer LawInternational), European Energy and Environmental Law Review (Kluwer Law International),Oregon Law Review, Georgetown International Environmental law Review, ColumbiaJournal of Asian Law, Brooklyn Journal of International Law.

Pasi Heikkurinen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer at University of Helsinki, Finland

Riccardo Tremolada

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
Since March 2013, Riccardo has been a Research Associate at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development. Riccardo works as an Associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. He joined the firm in Rome in 2013 and was resident in the Milan office in 2017 and in the Washington D.C. office in 2018.

Rostane Mehdi

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Public Law / Aix - Marseille University

Shang Yiqing

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Researcher from Peking University School of Government, Beijing ( PRC )

Tao Huang

Job Titles:
  • Fellow
  • Visiting Scholar from Shanghai Jiao Tong University KoGuan Law School, Shanghai ( PRC )
Tao HUANG is a Fellow at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development and was a EU Commission Marie Curie Fellow and Visiting Scholar (2015 - 2017) at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development in the framework of the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under REA grant agreement no. 318908 Acronym of the Project: POREEN (2013-2016)"Partnering opportunities between Europe and China in the renewable energies and environmental industries". Currently, He is Associate Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University KoGuan Law School. Prof. Huang was awarded Ph.D. degree of Law in 2010 and Master degree of Laws in 2006 at Peking University Law School.

Thomas B. Stoel

Job Titles:
  • Director of International Law Programs

Tian Chenyang

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Researcher from Peking University School of Government, Beijing ( PRC )

Tivadar Ötvös

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager
  • Research Associate

Valentina Vadi

Job Titles:
  • Professor of International Economic Law / Lancaster University

Vanessa Kopec

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Wan Lili

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar from Wuhan University, Wuhan ( PRC )

Wang Ling

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar from Tsinghua University, Beijing ( PRC )

Winfried Huck

Job Titles:
  • Professor for International and European Economic Law and Dean of Brunswick European Law School ( BELS ) Brunswick European Law School

WU Pan

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Researcher from Peking University School of Government, Beijing ( PRC )

Xu Xiaohong

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Researcher from Peking University School of Government, Beijing ( PRC )

Yan Dong

Governing the Transboundary Risks of Offshore Methane Hydrate Exploration in the Seabed and Ocean Floor-an Analysis on International Provisions and Chinese Law Yan, Dong, Paolo Davide Farah, Tivadar Ötvös, and Ivana Gaskova. "Governing the Transboundary Risks of Offshore Methane Hydrate Exploration in the Seabed and Ocean Floor-an Analysis on International Provisions and Chinese Law." The Journal of World Energy Law & Business, 2020. Trade in Clean Energy Technologies: Sliding from Protection to Protectionism through Obligations for Technology Transfer in Climate Change Law, or Vice Versa? Koskina, Anthi, Farah, Paolo Davide and Ibrahim, Imad Antoine. "Trade in Clean Energy Technologies: Sliding from Protection to Protectionism through Obligations for Technology Transfer in Climate Change Law, or Vice Versa?" The Journal of World Energy Law & Business, 2020.

Yang Bingqian

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Researcher from Peking University School of Government, Beijing ( PRC )

Yao Jia

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar from Tsinghua University, Beijing ( PRC )

YIN Wei

Job Titles:
  • External Collaborator

Yiqing Shang

Job Titles:
  • Fellow
Yiqing Shang is Fellow at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development and was a Visiting Researcher in the framework of the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technology Development under the funding scheme of IRSES: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme n°317767, Acronym of the Project: LIBEAC "Liberalism In Between Europe And China - Assessing the Socio-Cultural and Politico-Legal Dimensions of the Differences in Terms of Interpretation and Enforcement of Economic, Social and Environmental Rights in Europe and China".

Zhang Xiang

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar from Tsinghua University, Beijing ( PRC )