CELIS-PEOPLE

Dr. Henning Berger is a partner of international law firm White & Case LLP in Berlin. Henning is a member of the firm`s international financial advisory group and heads their German and EU financial regulatory practice. A focus of Henning`s practice is on European and cross-border issues of banking and insurance supervision, including the supervision…

Christoph Arhold is counsel at the Berlin and Brussels offices of White & Case LLP. His  main practice areas are German and European competition law, including mergers, cartels and-in particular-State aid. He also has substantial experience in other fields of EU and national law with international dimensions such as export control law and more and…

Bartosz Soloch (ll.m.) deputy head of the Treaty Legal Department of the Republic of Poland, former Counsel in the International and European Law Department of the General Counsel to the Republic of Poland tasked with representing Poland in ISDS proceedings and supporting the government agent before the CJEU. PhD student on the University of Łódź.…

Alexandr Svetlicinii is associate professor at the University of Macau, Faculty of Law, where he also serves as Program Coordinator of the Master of International Business Law in English Language. Prior to joining the University of Macau, Svetlicinii was a senior researcher at the Jean Monnet Chair of European Law at the Tallinn University of…

Dr. Rahmi Kopar is a lecturer in Private International Law Division at the Law Faculty of Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University in Turkey and he teaches ‘International Investment Law’ and ‘Introduction to Energy Law’ modules here. He completed his LLM at the University of Vienna in 2013 and his PhD on international energy investment arbitration in…

Jaap van Etten is CEO and co-founder of Datenna, a company building software platforms for economic intelligence on China exclusively for governments. With a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a Master’s degree in Innovation Policy, Jaap worked as a Dutch diplomat in China for over a decade, focusing on the Chinese innovation landscape. While…

Sophie Meunier is Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, and Co-Director of the EU Program at Princeton. She is the author of Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations (Princeton University Press, 2005) and The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization (Brookings Institution Press, 2001), winner of the 2002 France-Ameriques book…

Francesco Cazzini is Lecturer in the Law Group at Wageningen University & Research. He coordinates the Global Trade Law course and teaches in the Food Law course. He gained practical experience in the area of Food and Corporate Law collaborating with several law firms based in Brussels and Milan. His research interests cover different areas of…

Dr. Dr. Claus Zimmermann is the lead lawyer in Noerr’s Brussels office for any issues involving international and EU trade law, EU regulatory affairs as well as contentious proceedings. He advises large enterprises and governments on all aspects of EU foreign trade and regulatory law as well as on international economic law, especially WTO law.…

Adam D. Dixon is Associate Professor of Globalization and Development at Maastricht University. He is the Principal Investigator of the research project Legitimacy, Financialization, and Varieties of Capitalism: Understanding Sovereign Wealth Funds in Europe (SWFsEUROPE) funded by the European Research Council. This project is focused on explaining how sovereign wealth funds are made legitimate as…

Alejandra Torres Camprubí (Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; LL.M, University College London), is an international dispute resolution attorney in Foley Hoag’s International Litigation and Arbitration Department, admitted to practice in the Madrid Bar as well as the Paris Bar as an EU lawyer. She focuses her practice on public international law and international investment arbitration and…

Maria Rosaria Mauro is Full Professor of International Law at the University of Molise (Law Department). She is Professor of International Economic Law at the University Luiss Guido Carli of Rome (Law Department), where she taught also International Economic and Environmental Law and International Organization and Human Rights (Political Science Department). She taught European Union…

Pim Jansen is an Assistant Professor at Erasmus School of Law (ESL) in the Netherlands. He teaches (i) various courses at ESL including “Inleiding Staats- en Bestuursrecht” and “Overheid en Markt”; (ii) “Energy Transition” at Nederlandse wethoudersopleiding ‘Politiek Bestuurlijk Management’; and (iii) “EU law, Industrial Policy and Digital Markets” at Waseda Law School in Tokyo.…

Dr. Lena Hornkohl is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law in the Department of European and Comparative Procedural Law. She holds a PhD from Heidelberg University and an LLM in European Law and Economic Analysis from the College of Europe. She studied in Heidelberg and Uppsala and undertook…

Sara Pugliese is Associate Professor of EU Law at the “Parthenope” University of Naples. She has Sara Pugliese is Associate Professor of EU Law at the “Parthenope” University of Naples. She has authored articles and contributions concerning several issues (EU environmental and cultural policy, EU defence policy, EU economic governance, EU agencies, protection of minorities,…

Federica Cristani is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for International Law, Institute of International Relations Prague (CZ) and Visiting Senior Researcher at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland (FI). She holds a PhD (with the certificate of Doctor Europaeus) in international law and a degree in law from the University of Verona (IT). She…

Kilian Wagner works as a Researcher and Lecturer (PhD Candidate) at the University of Vienna, Section for International Law and International Relations. His research focus is on International Economic Law and Comparative Public Law (Preliminary working title of the PhD thesis: ‘FDI screening mechanisms to protect security and public order in the pre- and post-establishment phase…

Wessel Geursen is Senior Legal Adviser at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in Amsterdam specialised in EU and competition law. He is also an affiliated PhD-Fellow at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and researches the territorial scope of EU-law (for example in relation to the continental shelf, territorial and international waters, overseas countries & territories (OCT)…

Safar Safarli is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Azerbaijan. Safar Safarli has gotten his LL.B. degree from Baku State University Faculty of Law (LL.B. degree with honours) and his LL.M. degree from Uppsala University (Master’s Programme in Investment Treaty Arbitration). He is currently pursuing legal internship at DER Juridik Stockholm. Safar’s LL.M. study and internship period…

Argha Kumar Jena is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for India. Dr. Argha Kumar Jena, LL.M. (Berlin), Principal Associate at DMD Advocates, is an Indian attorney specializing in international contracts, contract related litigation dispute resolution and international economic law with nearly a decade’s experience. Since being admitted to the Bar Council of India, he has worked with…