CELIS-PEOPLE

Lorenzo Bernardini is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the University of Luxembourg. As of 2022, he is actively participating in two DG JUST Action Grants funded by the European Commission – the first focused on the mutual recognition of freezing and confiscation orders, and the second on the digitalization of…

Andrea Berger Athens serves as Deputy Assistant Director at CELIS Institute. Andrea is a lecturer at Uppsala University, in corporate and securities market law, capital markets law and accounting law. She is also involved in a research project on corporate governance at Uppsala University. Her academic background consists of an LLM with studies at Uppsala…

Victor Crochet is a senior associate at the law firm Van Bael & Bellis based in Brussels where his practice focuses on EU and international economic law and policy. Victor is also undertaking a PhD at the University of Cambridge on the same topics.

Dr Weihuan Zhou is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre at the Faculty of Law and Justice, University of New South Wales Sydney. His research explores the most current and controversial issues in the field of international economic law, particularly the nexus between international trade law and…

Ruben Koslar is CELIS Country Reporter for France. Ruben Koslar is  a member of the Paris Bar. He joined the firm in 2015 after having worked for several years in one of the leading French business law firms. He advises international, including German-speaking, clients in M&A transactions, as well as on all aspects of corporate…

Karl Hepp de Sevelinges is CELIS Country Reporter for France. Karl Hepp de Sevelinges is a partner at Jeantet, admitted to the Paris, Frankfurt (Rechtsanwalt) and New York (FLC) bars. Specialized in Mergers & Acquisitions, he advises industrial companies, financial institutions and international funds, particularly German-speaking ones, on their investments in France. Karl has significant…

Dr. Philipp Reinhold works as a Lecturer and Senior Research Assistant (Akademischer Rat a.Z.) at the Chair of Public Law, Public International Law, European Law and International Economic Law of Prof. Dr. Marc Bungenberg, LL.M. and the Europa-Institut at Saarland University. His research focuses on EU and international trade law. In 2023, he published a…

Dr Murilo Lubambo is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Law, Economics and Society at the Faculty of Laws of University College London (UCL). He is the module leader of the International Commercial Litigation summer course at UCL. He was a Legal Affairs Research Intern at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America…

John Kabealo is Senior Advisor for the CELIS Institute. John founded Kabealo PLLC in 2018 out of a desire to bring top-tier national security regulatory experience to as broad a set of clients as possible. He spent the first 12 years of his career at Skadden, Arps, where he helped to launch the firm’s fledgling…

Mihails Kozlovs, Member of the European Court of Auditors, Dean of Chamber IV – “Regulation of Markets and competitive economy”. For more than 20 years, M. Kozlovs has dedicated a significant portion of his career to European Union (EU) matters and international relations. He contributed to Latvia’s accession to the EU and the Eurozone. Additionally,…

Thomas is Assistant Professor in European Union Law at Utrecht University and a member of Utrecht University’s Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (Renforce), where he co-leads a building block on EU values in international trade policy. Thomas is an expert in EU and comparative foreign relations law and has a particular interest…

Pierfrancesco is a Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant specialising in European and International Economic Law at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His primary research interests encompass competition law and policy, international trade law and policy, and economic diplomacy. Pierfrancesco is currently conducting a doctoral research project on the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation and its interaction…

Thijs De Cuyper is a Ph.D. researcher and teaching assistant at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He graduated at the same university in 2019 with a specialization in European and international law. Afterwards, he pursued an LL.M. degree at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Thijs was a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge from April until…

Dr Iryna Bogdanova is an international law scholar from Ukraine. Currently, she holds a position as a postdoctoral researcher at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern. Her recent book explores the legality of unilateral economic sanctions, i.e. those imposed by individual states without authorization of the UN Security Council, under international law. Dr Bogdanova…

Sophie Bohnert received a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Business Law from Vienna University of Business and Economics/Maastricht University. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics and Social Sciences from Vienna University of Business and Economics. Sophie is currently a doctoral candidate at the Vienna University of Business and Economics and an…