HURMUR - Key Persons
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- Associate Professor in Law
Dr A.M. Viens is Associate Professor in Law and Director of the Centre for Health, Ethics and Law (HEAL) within Southampton Law School at the University of Southampton. He previously held a post-doctoral fellowship in Germany and teaching positions at Oxford University and King's College London. He has acquired degrees in philosophy and law from the Universities of Toronto, Oxford and London. His main areas of research and teaching focus on ethics, legal theory and public policy, especially public health ethics and law. He is the editor of The Right to Bodily Integrity (Routledge, 2014) within The International Library of Essays on Rights.
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- Judge, European Court of Human Rights
Professor Andy Spalding teaches and writes in the area of international anti-corruption law. He is Senior Editor of the FCPA Blog and an instructor at the U.N.-sponsored International Anti-Corruption Academy in Vienna, Austria. His scholarship has appeared in the UCLA Law Review, Washington University Law Review, and many other academic venues, and has been covered by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Atlantic, Forbes, and National Public Radio. From 2009-2010, Professor Spalding was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in Mumbai, India, traveling across India and into Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates to conduct research and lecture at law and business schools. He has also taught intensive short courses on international business transactions and other legal topics to practicing lawyers in Beijing, China through the Beijing Lawyers Association. Professor Spalding has a Ph.D. in Political Science and has served as a lecturer, panelist, or invited keynote speaker at over two dozen conferences and meetings on international business and anti-corruption law topics.
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- Judge, European Court of Human Rights
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- Professor of International Law at Hertie School of Governance
Başak Çalı is Professor of International Law at Hertie School of Governance, Berlin and Director of Center for Global Public Law at Koç University, Istanbul. She has written extensively about international law and international human rights law, with an emphasis on their purpose, legitimacy, and domestic impact. Her work treats law in its broader normative and political context, and has been published in the Law and Social Inquiry, European Journal of International Law, Human Rights Quarterly, International Journal of Constitutional Law and by Oxford University Press and Routledge. Currently, she holds a British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship to explore the effects of human rights law on other branches of international law.
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- Director of the German Institute for Human Rights
Prof. Dr. iur. Beate Rudolf is the Director of the German Institute for Human Rights (GIHR), Germany's National Human Rights Institution. Since 2016, she also chairs the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI). Prior to joining the GIHR, she was a junior professor for public law and equality law at the faculty of law of Freie Universität Berlin and director of the research project "Public International Law Standards for Governance in Weak and Failing States" within the Research Center "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood". Her research focuses on human rights and legal principles on state structures under public international law, European law and German constitutional law as well as from a comparative law perspective. She carried out her activities in research and teaching in these areas at the universities of Bonn, Dusseldorf, Tulane Law School, New Orleans, and Freie Universität Berlin. She gained practical experience in human rights work by representing applicants before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), and as an active member of the German Women Lawyers Association and the European Women Lawyers Assocation, of which she was a Vice-President. Her numerous publications (in German, English and French) in the area of human rights range from conceptual questions of specific rights, gender equality and non-discrimination to problems of implementation and improving the UN human rights system. Inter alia, she is co-editor of the Commentary on the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), with Marsha A. Freeman and Christine Chinkin, published in 2012 by Oxford University Press.
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- Professor of Law in the School
- Professor, University of London
Bill Bowring is a Professor of Law in the School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, and a practising barrister at Field Court Chambers, Gray's Inn. He is currently a Fellow of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Northampton. He has frequently acted as an expert for the Council of Europe, OSCE, European Union, and United Nations, as well as advising the UK government. His research interests include human rights, minority rights, international law, and the law and practice of Russia and the countries of the Former Soviet Union, and Eastern and Central Europe.
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- Georgetown University As Visiting Professor of Law
- President of the American Branch of the International Law Association
- Right to Diplomatic and Consular Protection, Author
Professor Stewart joined Georgetown University as Visiting Professor of Law following his retirement from the U. S. Department of State, where he served as Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law. Previously he had been Assistant Legal Adviser for Diplomatic Law and Litigation, for African Affairs, for Human Rights and Refugees, for Law Enforcement and Intelligence, and for International Claims and Investment Disputes, as well as Special Assistant to the Legal Adviser. Before joining the government, he was in private practice with Donovan Leisure Newton &Irvine in commercial and antitrust litigation. He was Adjunct Professor for over 25 years and received Georgetown's Charles Fahy award for distinguished adjunct faculty teaching in 2003-2004.
Prof. Stewart is President of the American Branch of the International Law Association and a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law. The American Law Institute has selected him to serve as one of the reporters working on the Restatement (Fourth), Foreign Relations Law of the United States. He previously served on the Executive Council of the ABA's Section of International Law and the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. From 2008-2016 he was a member of the Inter-American Juridical Committee, which advises the Organization of American States on juridical matters of an international nature and promotes the progressive development and codification of international law.
Dinah L. Shelton joined the law school faculty of George Washington University in 2004. Before her appointment, she was professor of international law and director of the doctoral program in international human rights law at the University of Notre Dame Law School from 1996-2004. She previously taught at Santa Clara University and was a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Davis, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, the University of Paris, and the University of Strasbourg, France. From 1987 to 1989, she was the director of the Office of Staff Attorneys at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Professor Shelton is the author or editor of three prize-winning books: Protecting Human Rights in the Americas (winner of the 1982 Inter-American Bar Association Book Prize and co-authored with Thomas Buergenthal); Remedies in International Human Rights Law (awarded the 2000 Certificate of Merit, American Society of International Law); and the three volume Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity (awarded a "Best Research" book award by the New York Public Library). She also has authored many articles and books on international law, human rights law, and international environmental law. She is a member of the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law and is a vice-president of the American Society of International Law.
Professor Shelton serves on the boards of many human rights and environmental organizations. In 2006, she was awarded the prestigious Elizabeth Haub Prize in Environmental Law, and has served as a legal consultant to the United Nations Environment Programme, UNITAR, World Health Organization, European Union, Council of Europe, and Organization of American States. In 2009, she became the first woman nominated by the United States to become a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, established by the Organization of American States to promote and protect human rights in the Western Hemisphere. She served a four-year term, during which she went on to become President of the Commission.
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- Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham
- Associate Professor, University of Nottingham
Dr Marko Milanovic is an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, School of Law. He obtained his first degree in law from the University of Belgrade, his LL.M from the University of Michigan, and his PhD in international law from the University of Cambridge. He is the Vice-President and member of the Executive Board of the European Society of International Law and an Associate of the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School and at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. His expertise includes general international law, especially issues of state responsibility and treaty interpretation; human rights law; international criminal law and international humanitarian law.
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- Lecturer in Law at the University
- Member of the Food Studies Centre and the Centre for the Study of Colonialism
Dr Yoriko Otomo is a Lecturer in Law at the University of London (SOAS), and recently a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Global History, University of Oxford and the University of New South Wales. She received her doctorate (as well as a BA and Honours degree in Law) from the University of Melbourne.
Her research examines cross-cultural histories of global governance, looking in particular at the ways in which emerging patterns of economic interdependence changed representations of women and animals. She is working on a project, ‘White Revolutions' that examines the development of the dairy industries in colonial Britain, and has co-edited a book, ‘Making Milk: The Past, Present and Future of Our Primary Food' with Professor Mathilde Cohen (Forthcoming, Bloomsbury). Yoriko's recent book, ‘Unconditional Life: The International Law Settlement' was published by OUP in 2016 and she has written various articles on environmental law history and animal law.
Dr. Otomo is a member of the Food Studies Centre and the Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law at SOAS. She is on the editorial board of the Australian Feminist Law Journal, and on the advisory board of the Journal for Critical Animal Studies.
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- Professor for Public Law
- Professor for Public Law, Public International and European Law, Kiel University
Born in Hamburg on October 17, 1970, Andreas von Arnauld de la Perrière studied law in Hamburg and Bonn. Following his First State Examination (1994), he worked as assistant to Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Ingo von Münch at Hamburg University's Institute for International Affairs. After having received his doctorate (Dr. jur., 1998) and passed his Second State Examination (1999) he became research and teaching assistant (post-doc) to the Chair of Public Law, Public International Law, European Law and Constitutional History (Professor Dr. Albrecht Randelzhofer) at Berlin Free University.
In February 2005, Andreas von Arnauld was awarded his post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) at the Facultuy of Law, Free University of Berlin. He received the teaching credentials (venia legendi) for Public Law, Public International and European Law, Legal Philosophy and Legal Theory. After having served as Acting Professor in Berlin 2005/06, he moved on to Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg where he was appointed (Full) Professor of Public Law, Public International and European Law in February 2007. From April 2012 to Ocober 2013, he held the Chair of Public International and European Law at the University of Münster (Westphalia).
Since October 1, 2013, Andreas von Arnauld is Professor for Public Law, Public International and European Law at Kiel University and Co-Director of the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law. His research (un)focusses on international peace and security, peaceful settlement of dispute and the laws of armed conflict; on German, European and Comparative Constitutional Law (with a focus on human rights and the rule of law). Throughout his teaching and research, Andreas von Arnauld has a penchant for dealing with the fundamentals of law and for interdisciplinary exchange, especially with Social and Political Sciences as well as Cultural Studies and Literary Criticism
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- Research Director & Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for Human Rights
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- Professor of Public International Law and European Union Law, Kiel University
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- Senior Researcher, Danish Institute of Human Rights
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- Professor of Human Rights Law, Tallinn University
Mart Susi has MA degree in Sociology from University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) and doctor iuris degree from University of Tartu (Estonia). He has held senior positions in several academic institutions. Currently he is heading the law program at Tallinn University and has the position of Associate Professor of Human Rights Law.
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- Lecturer in International and European Law, Tallinn University
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- Judge, Constitutional Court of Slovenia
Ernest Petrič is Slovenian judge, jurist, professor, and diplomat. He began his career at the Institute for National Issues. From 1967 to 1972, he served on the Executive Council of the Slovene government. He was with the University of Ljubljana from 1976 to 1988 in capacity of professor, vice dean and finally dean. He has been the ambassador to India, the US and Austria and a permanent representative/ambassador to the UN and numerous other international organisations such as OSCE and ODC. He also presided over the Council of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He is a member of the UN International Law Commission. He served as President of the Commission from 2008 to 2009. He has published numerous articles and treatises in domestic and foreign professional journals, and six books, four in the field of international law.
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- Professor of Human Rights Law at Ghent University
Eva Brems is a professor of Human Rights Law at Ghent University. Brems studied law at the universities of Namur (candidat, 1989), Leuven (licenciaat 1992) and Harvard (LL.M. 1995). She obtained her Ph.D. from Leuven University in 1999. After one year as a lecturer at Maastricht University, she joined the Ghent University Law School in October 2000, as its first professor of Human Rights Law. At Ghent University, prof. Brems founded the Human Rights Centre, which she developed into a leading centre in the field.Among her most important projects are an ERC Starting Grant (2009-2014) on ‘Strengthening the European Court of Human Rights: More Accountability through Better Legal Reasoning), a BELSPO- funded Inter-University Attraction Pole project ‘The global challenge of human rights integration: toward a users' perspective' (2012-2017), and a Concerted Research Action (Ghent University Research Fund) on ‘Procedural Fairness in Multicultural Conflicts' (2016-2021).
Professor Brems teaches an Advanced Course on Human Rights Law, and optional courses in Law & Gender andMulticulturalism and the Law. In addition she developed a legal clinic on human rights law.
Professor Brems is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law. She is a member of the editorial board or advisory board of Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, Human Rights & International Legal Discourse, Tijdschrift voor Bestuurswetenschappen en Publiekrecht, Tegenspraak, European Journal of Human Rights, Human Rights Law Review, Belgian Review of International Law, International Journal of Children's Rights, Human Rights Quarterly, Journal of Constitutional Law (Turkey).
Professor Brems has been a board member of several human rights organisations, most notably Amnesty International - Flanders (chair 2006-2010), Liga voor Mensenrechten (1998-2001), Vormen - Vlaamse Organisatie voor Mensenrechteneducatie (2000-2010), and Advocaten zonder Grenzen (2005-2007). She is currently a board member of Plan International Belgium. She was a member of the Belgian federal Chamber of Representatives 2010-2014.
Fergus MacKay is Senior Counsel at the UK-based NGO, the Forest Peoples Programme. He has 25 years of experience supporting indigenous peoples in all regions of the world to assert and defend their rights before domestic and international bodies. This includes litigating a number of cases before United Nations treaty bodies and the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights, including the landmark judgments in Saramaka People v. Suriname (2007) and Kaliña and Lokono Peoples v. Suriname (2015). He has authored more than 60 books and articles on the various aspects of the rights of indigenous peoples in international law.
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- Right to Diplomatic and Consular Protection, Commentator
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- Right to a Clean Environment and Rights of the Environment, Author
Günther Handl is the Eberhard P. Deutsch Professor of Public International Law at Tulane University Law School. He holds law degrees from the University of Graz (Dr. iur.), Cambridge (LL.B.) and Yale (SJD). He is the author of several books and many articles in the field of public international law, international environmental law and law of the sea. Professor Handl is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Prix Elisabeth Haub, 1997. He has served in an advisory capacity to governments and international organisations, including the United Nations Environment Programme, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank. He is Senior Project Consultant on "Policy and Law for Nuclear Safety and Security" at the National University of Singapore.
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- Professor of Public Law at the University of Cape Town
Hugh Corder has been Professor of Public Law at the University of Cape Town since 1987 and a Fellow of the University since 2004. A graduate of the universities of Cape Town, Cambridge and Oxford, his main teaching and research interests fall within the field of Constitutional and Administrative Law, particularly judicial appointment and accountability and mechanisms to further administrative accountability. Professor Corder has been widely involved in community work since his student days, concentrating on popular legal education, human rights and the abolition of the death penalty. He served as a technical adviser in the drafting of the transitional Bill of Rights for South Africa in 1993. He has written two books, co-authored two and edited a further nine, and has contributed many articles and chapters in books.
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- Professor of Fundamental Rights Law at Utrecht University
Janneke Gerards is professor of fundamental rights law at Utrecht University (Institute for Jurisprudence, Constitutional and Administrative Law). She holds a designated chair in Utrecht University's research programme ‘Institutions for open societies' and she is a fellow at the Human Rights School of Research (SIM). Since 2015 she is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her activities outside the university include being a deputy Judge in the Appeals Court of The Hague and being a member of the Human Rights Commission of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs.
The research conducted by Janneke Gerards focuses on fundamental rights, equal treatment law, judicial review and comparative public law. The interrelation of the European Convention on Human Rights, EU law and national law plays a central role in her research.
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- Professor at the Faculty of Political Science
Judit Sándor is a full professor at the Faculty of Political Science, Legal Studies and Gender Studies of the Central European University (CEU), Budapest. She had a bar exam in Hungary, she conducted legal practice at Simmons & Simmons in London, had fellowships at McGill (Montreal), at Stanford (Palo Alto), at Maison de sciences de l'homme (Paris), at NYU (New York, as a Global Research Fellow). She received Ph.D. in law and political science. She was one of the founders of the first Patients' Right Organization (‘Szószóló') in Hungary, she was a member of the Hungarian Science and Research Ethics Council, and currently a member at the Hungarian Human Reproduction Commission.
She participated in different national and international legislative, standard setting and policy making activities in the field of biomedical law and bioethics. In 2004-2005 she served as the Chief of the Bioethics Section at the UNESCO in Paris. She published eleven books in the field of human rights and biomedical law. Her works appeared in different languages, including Hungarian, English, French and Portuguese. Since September 2005 she is a founding director of the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB) at the Central European University.
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- Professor of International
Jérémie Gilbert is Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of East London, United Kingdom. His main area of research is on international human rights law, and more particularly the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples. He has published various books, articles and book chapters on the rights of indigenous peoples, looking in particular at their right to land. His latest monograph is ‘Nomadic Peoples and Human Rights' (Routledge, 2014).
He has served as a consultant for several international organisations and work with several indigenous communities. He is a member of Minority Rights Group International's Advisory Board on their Legal Cases Programme, and regularly works with the Forest Peoples' Programme, and was previously a board member of the International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA). He was one of the invited independent experts for United Nations Expert Seminar on Treaties and other arrangements between States and Indigenous Peoples, and has served as a consultant for the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
His current work focuses on the protection of nomadic peoples under international law, indigenous peoples' rights, and the interaction between natural resources and human rights law.
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- Legal Adviser in Amnesty International 's International Secretariat
Kolawole Olaniyan is Legal Adviser in Amnesty International's International Secretariat, London. Between 2004-2007 he was Program Director for Africa. He received his doctoral degree from the Law School of the University of Notre Dame, USA in 2003 and has written extensively on corruption and African regional human rights system.
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- Professor, Warsaw University, and Judge, European Court of Human Rights
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- Right to a Clean Environment and Rights of the Environment, Commentator
María Clara Galvis Patiño is a Colombian lawyer with significant experience -20 years of work- in public international law, international human rights law and constitutional law, and a specific theoretical and practical experience of 13 years in inter-American law, legal research for the development concepts, studies, academics and reports, and the use and advice for using the various mechanisms of the Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights articles. She also has a wide experience drafting and reasoning judicial decisions projects and drafting memorials in law (amicus curiae briefs) to present them before international and national courts in several countries of the American continent. Also, as a professor, she has an important academic and teaching career in international human rights law, American law and constitutional law in various countries of the American continent.
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- Director of International Programs and Director of the Gruber Program for Global Justice
Mindy Jane Roseman is the Director of International Programs and Director of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women's Rights at Yale Law School. Prior to joining Yale Law, Roseman was the Academic Director of the Human Rights Program and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School from 2005-2016 where she taught courses on gender and human rights, as well as reproductive health and justice. Roseman was also an instructor in the Department of Population and International Health at Harvard School of Public Health. Before joining Harvard, Roseman was a staff attorney with the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York, in charge of its East and Central European program.
As both a researcher and advocate, Roseman specializes in international health and human rights, particularly as they relate to gender, sexuality, and reproduction. She has fostered the development of health and human rights norms, as well as their implementation, at the international and national level. She has consulted for various UN agencies, as well as international and national non-governmental organizations on human rights matters in connection to HIV/AIDS, gender, sexuality and sexual practices, reproductive health, maternal health, and criminal law.
Roseman received her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law and served as an Articles Editor on its Law Review. She also received a Ph.D. from Columbia University, in Modern European History with a focus on reproductive health. After graduating from law school, she clerked for Judge John F. Grady, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District, IL.
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- Professor, Charles University, and Member, UN International Law Commission
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- Judge of the International Court of Justice
- Judge, International Court of Justice
Peter Tomka is a judge of the International Court of Justice and a previous Slovak diplomat. He is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law. In addition, he is an associate Member of the Institut de droit international, Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple, Panel of Arbitrators under Annex VII to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, and a member of ICSID Panel of Arbitrators. He is also a member, UN International Law Commission and a chairman or member of the tribunal in a number of interstate arbitrations and in investment arbitrations under the Rules of the ICSID, UNCITRAL and NAFTA. He has also been a lecturer at the Charles University, Prague and Comenius University, Bratislava.
Prof. Dr. Eibe Riedel studied law and Theologie at the University of London, obtaining a Bachelor of law in 1967. He obtained his Masters in law at Christian-Albrechts Univeristy Kiel in 1971. 1974 he completed his doctoral studies with a dissertation on the "Kontrolle der Verwaltung im englischen Rechtssystem." For his dissertation, he received an award from the State of Schleswig-Holstein. Until 1983 he was Professor at the University Mainz (Public International Law). He also held positions at Marburg and Mannheim University. He currently works for the UN Committee of Economic and Social Rights.
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- Professor of Law at the University of Essex
Sabine Michalowski is professor of law at the University of Essex, co-director of the Essex Transitional Justice Network, and a member of the Human Rights Centre and the Essex Autonomy Project. Sabine graduated from Hamburg, qualified as a lawyer in Berlin, and holds a Diploma in Comparative Law awarded by the University of Paris II and a PhD from Sheffield.
As a member of the Essex Autonomy Project, she has recently been working on an AHRC funded project on the compatibility of mental capacity legislation in the three jurisdiction within the UK with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She is currently involved in a large research grant on mental health and justice, coordinated by King's College London and funded by the Wellcome Trust.
One of Sabine's ongoing research interests is end-of-life decision-making, in particular the controversial issue of assisted dying. She is currently exploring the human rights implications of the partial legalisation of assisted dying.
Sabine is also working on corporate complicity in human rights violations. She is currently working with Dejusticia, a Colombian NGO, on the role of corporate actors in the Colombian conflict and how it should be addressed in the Colombian transitional justice process.
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- Professor of Public International Law and European Law at the University of Fribourg
Samantha Besson is Professor of Public International Law and European Law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), Co-Director of the European Law Institute of the Universities of Bern, Fribourg and Neuch tel (Switzerland) and Vice-Dean of the Law Faculty, University of Fribourg (Switzerland).
Samantha Besson was born on 30th March, 1973. She holds a degree in Swiss and European Law (Universities of Fribourg and Vienna, 1996), a Magister Juris in European and Comparative Law (University of Oxford, 1998), a PhD in Law (University of Fribourg, 1999) and a Habilitation in Legal Theory and Swiss, Comparative, European and International Constitutional Law (University of Bern, 2004).
She worked as a research assistant at the University of Fribourg (1994-7) and then received various post-doctoral research grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) (Visiting Scholar, Columbia Law School, 1999- 2000; University of Oxford, 2000-2) and The Queen's College, Oxford (Junior Research Fellow, 2001-4). She came back to Switzerland in 2004 to become a SNF research professor at the University of Fribourg (2004-8) and then a Professor, Chair of Public International Law and European Law at the same University (2005- present). Before and since then, she taught as a lecturer at the Universities of Oxford (2001-2004) and Geneva (2001-2005), and then as a visiting professor at the Universities of Zurich (2007-10), Duke Law School (2009), Lausanne (2010), Lisbon (2010-present), Harvard Law School (2014) and Penn Law School (2018). She also taught in various capacities at the Hague Academy of International Law: as Coordinator of the Seminar of Advanced Study in Public and Private International Law (2009-2013), Director of Studies (2013) and Teacher of a Special Course (2020). In 2011-2, she was Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and, early 2017, was a short-term resident at the Institute of Advanced Study in Nantes (as a member of its scientific board, 2013-present). She was the Human Rights Delegate of the Swiss Academies of Sciences (2013-6) and currently serves as member of the Board of the Swiss Academies of Humanities and Social Sciences (from 2017 onwards).
Sigrid Boysen is professor of public law and public international law at Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, where she teaches constitutional law and public international law. Prior to her current position she was assistant professor at Free University Berlin. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg (Germany) and the general qualification for judicial office under German law. Her research focuses on international environmental and trade law. She is co-editor of the law review "Archiv des Völkerrechts". Her recent publications include book chapters on the EU's common commercial policy, journal articles on global public goods and various chapters on constitutional rights. She is currently writing a book on legal and institutional issues of the regulation and governance of the environment and natural resources.
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- Consultant to the New South Wales ( NSW ) Law Reform Commission
- Professor
Professor Simon Rice has extensive experience in anti-discrimination law, human rights law and access to justice issues.
After a period in private commercial practice he worked in and managed a number of community legal centres in Sydney and Canberra. He has practiced, researched, written and trained extensively in poverty law and human rights, particularly anti-discrimination law. His jointly authored books include ‘Australian Anti-Discrimination Law', ‘The International Law of Human Rights', and ‘Australian Clinical legal Education'.
Simon has been a consultant to the New South Wales (NSW) Law Reform Commission, Board member of the NSW Legal Aid Commission, executive director of the NSW Law and Justice Foundation, judicial member of the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal, chair of the Australian Capital Territory Law Reform Advisory Council, and legal adviser to the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights.
Simon was director of the law clinic program at the University of NSW and has taught at Sydney University and Macquarie University. Until June 2017 he was Director of Law Reform and Social Justice at the Australian National University, and in July 2017 he commenced as Professor of Law, Professional and Community Engagement, at the University of Sydney.
In 2002 Simon was awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia (OAM) for legal services to the economically and socially disadvantaged.
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- Professor, George Washington University
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- Research Director, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Tom Douglas is a Senior Research Fellow in the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He is also Principal Investigator on the Wellcome Trust-funded project ‘Neurointerventions in Crime Prevention: An Ethical Analysis' and Lead Researcher in the Oxford Martin Programme on Collective Responsibility for Infectious Disease. He initially qualified as a medical doctor at the University of Otago (New Zealand) before taking up a Rhodes Scholarship in Oxford, where he received his BA in Philosophy, Politics & Economics in 2005, and his DPhil in Philosophy in 2010. From 2010-2013 he was a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Uehiro Centre and a Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College.
Tom's research lies mainly in practical and normative ethics. In practical ethics, his work focuses on the ethics of using medical technologies for ‘non-medical' purposes, such as crime prevention and behaviour change. In normative ethics he is primarily interested in the nature of moral improvement and in tensions between special obligations and requirements of fairness. Previously, he has written on slippery slope arguments, organ donation policy, the philosophical foundations of injury compensation law, and the dual-use dilemma.
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- Professor of Law at the Department of Legal Theory
Tomasz Pietrzykowski is a professor of law at the Department of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Since 2016 Vice-Rector of the University responsible for international and domestic cooperation; member of National Ethical Committee for Animal Experimentation at the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the former deputy chairman of that Committee; author of many publications on legal philosophy, ethics and animal rights.