Speakers (A – E) | (F – J) | (K – O) | (P – T) | (U – Z)
The Edinburgh Europa Research Group hosts researchers from around the world. The following individuals have served as speakers, presenters, discussants and/or chairs at our events since 2014/2015 (details current as of last participation, with occasional updates).
Speakers (A – E)
Nur Abdelkhaliq (@nabdelkhaliq)
IOD PARC
Dr Nur Abdelkhaliq is Senior Consultant at IOD PARC, a consultancy. Her expertise rests in migration and refugee policy, including crossover between migration and policy areas such as development, labour and protection.
Events featuring Nur Abdelkhaliq
Arianna Andreangeli (@AriAround)
The University of Edinburgh
Dr Arianna Andreangeli is Senior Lecturer in Competition Law at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include EU competition law, national competition law, markets, innovation, merger control and business regulation.
Events featuring Arianna Andreangeli
Francesca Batzella (@F_Batzella)
The University of Hertfordshire
Dr Francesca Batzella is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Hertfordshire. Her research interests include EU energy policy, EU external relations, the European Commission and European studies more broadly.
Events featuring Francesca Batzella
Prof Dr Richard Barnes
University of Hull
Richard is an internationally-recognised expert in international law and law of the sea. He has been invited to give advice to government bodies in the UK and overseas, NGOS and the private sector on a wide range of marine law matters.
Gunnar Beck
SOAS University of London
Dr Gunnar Beck is Reader in Law at SOAS University of London. His research interests include EU law, legal theory, legal reasoning and methodology, the European Court of Justice and legal and political philosophy. He practices as Barrister-at-Law and a Rechtsanwalt.
Vladimir Bortun
The University of Portsmouth
Vladimir Bortun is PhD Candidate in Politics at the University of Portsmouth. His research focuses on the transnational networking and cooperation among new left parties in Southern Europe in the context of the Eurozone crisis.
Events featuring Vladimir Bortun
Zuzanna Brocka
The University of Łódź
Zuzanna Brocka is PhD Candidate in European Union Law at the University of Łódź and Teaching Fellow in Law at the University of Pavia. She is registered with the Bar of Pavia and the Warsaw Bar of Legal Advisors (Foreign Lawyers), specialising in commercial and corporate law.
Events featuring Zuzanna Brocka
Coree Brown Swan (@coree_brown)
The University of Edinburgh
Coree Brown is PhD Candidate in Politics at the University of Edinburgh and Research Assistant at the Centre on Constitutional Change. Her research focuses on how substate nationalist parties, namely Scotland’s SNP and Flander’s Nieuwe-Vlaams Alliantie understand independence in a changing world.
Events featuring Coree Brown Swan
Graham Butler (@GrahamButler1)
Aarhus University
Dr Graham Butler is Assistant Professor of Law at Aarhus University. His research interests include EU external relations law, the Common Foreign and Security Policy, constitutional law, institutional law and wider legal aspects of foreign relations.
Events featuring Graham Butler
Paul James Cardwell (@Cardwell_PJ)
The University of Strathclyde
Dr Paul James Cardwell is Professor of Law at the University of Strathclyde. His research interests include EU external relations, EU law and politics and UK constitutional law. He is Honorary Fellow of the Edinburgh Europa Institute.
Events featuring Paul James Cardwell
Humberto Carrasco Blanc (@HCarrascoBlanc)
Catholic University of the North
Dr Humberto Carrasco Blanc is Associate Professor of Law at Universidad Católica del Norte. His research interests include competition, communication and IT law, regulation and markets. He is Chair of the LACRALO At-Large Organization, ICANN.
Events featuring Humberto Carrasco Blanc
Luca Cerioni (@CerioniL)
The University of Edinburgh
Dr Luca Cerioni is Lecturer in Tax Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include EU tax law, international and comparative tax law. His latest book is The European Union and Direct Taxation: A Solution for A Difficult Relationship (Routledge, 2015).
Jiahong Chen (@jiahong_chen)
The University of Edinburgh
Jiahong Chen is PhD Candidate in Law at the University of Edinburgh and Co-Convenor of the Edinburgh IP/IT/Media Law Discussion Group. His research interests include information technology law and data protection law at national and European level.
Prof Dr Robin Churchill
University of Dundee
Robin has acted an adviser/consultant to various NGOs (particularly environmental and fisheries organizations), a number of foreign governments, the European Commission and the European Parliament. He is a member of the editorial boards of the BYBIL, the IJMCL. He is also a member of the PCA’s Panel of Arbitrators (Disputes relating to Natural Resources and the Environment).
Feng Cunwan
Wuhan University
Dr Feng Cunwan is Associate Professor of International Relations at Wuhan University and currently Visiting Research Fellow at the Edinburgh Europa Institute at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on EU-China relations and EU climate and environment policy.
Liljana Cvetanoska
The University of Sussex
Liljana Cvetanoska is PhD Candidate in Politics and Teaching Fellow in Corruption, Law and Governance at the University of Sussex. Her research focuses on the influence of EU enlargement conditionality on controling corruption in Central and Eastern Europe.
Events featuring Liljana Cvetanoska
Cleo Davies
The University of Edinburgh
Cleo Davies is Co-Convenor of the Edinburgh Europa Research Group and PhD Candidate in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include European integration, the politics of financial market supervision/regulation and International Political Economy.
Floris de Witte
London School of Economics and Political Science
Dr Floris de Witte is Assistant Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests include EU constitutional, institutional and substantive Law and the interaction between EU law and political theory.
Events featuring Floris de Witte
Renke Deckarm
European Commission
Dr Renke Deckarm works in Human Resources Management in the European Commission. His research interests include the organisational design of European institutions, EU politics more generally and quantitative research methods.
Events featuring Renke Deckarm
Nicolas Diebold
The University of Lucerne
Prof Nicolas Diebold is Professor of Public and Economic Law at the University of Lucerne. He was formerly Head of Internal Market Affairs at the Swiss Competition Commission and his research interests include EU law, WTO law, the Single European Market and EU-Swiss relations.
Events featuring Nicolas Diebold
Speakers (F – J)
Filippo Fontanelli
The University of Edinburgh
Dr Filippo Fontanelli is Senior Lecturer in International Economic Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include EU law, human rights law, public international law and WTO law and he is a member of the Centre for Judicial Cooperation at the European University Institute.
Events featuring Filippo Fontanelli
Oliver Garner
European University Institute
Oliver Garner is PhD Candidate in European Union Law at the European University Institute. His research focuses on the consequences of fragmentation in the legal order of the European Union for the rights that European citizens derive from integration.
Events featuring Oliver Garner
Sotiria Grek (@SotiriaGrek)
The University of Edinburgh
Dr Sotiria Grek is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh and Associate Director of the University’s Centre for Science, Knowledge and Policy (SKAPE) Her research interests include education governance, education and European integration and uses of knowledge.
Emily Hancox (@emily_hancox)
The University of Edinburgh
Emily Hancox is PhD Candidate in Law at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the scope of application of European Union law and her interests include EU, constitutional and administrative law. She was Co-Convenor of the Edinburgh Europa Research Group (2014-2016).
Dr James Harrison
The University of Edinburgh
James teaches on a number of international law courses at The University of Edinburgh, including the law of the sea, international environmental law, and international investment law. He is Director of the Scottish Centre for International Law and an Annual Case Review Editor for the Journal of Environmental Law.
Martin Hogg (@The_Hoggy)
The University of Edinburgh
Prof Martin Hogg NP FRSA FSA Scot is Professor of the Law of Obligations and Head of the Law School at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include comparative obligations theory; contract and promise; and fundamental structural language in the law of obligations.
Arron Honniball
University of Utrecht
Arron is a PhD Candidate in Law at Utrecht University, currently finalizing his dissertation. His research interests include jurisdictional rights and responsibilities, law of the sea, environmental law and wider questions of implementing international law.
David Howarth
The University of Luxembourg
Prof David Howarth is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Luxembourg. His research interests include the political economy of European integration and national, European and international financial regulation. He is Honorary Fellow of the Edinburgh Europa Institute.º
Events featuring David Howarth
Dr Christopher Huggins
University of West of Scotland
Christopher is a Research Fellow at the University of the West of Scotland, working on the ‘UK Fisheries Policy Post-Brexit: Multi-level Challenges and Opportunities’ project, funded by the ESRC as part of the UK in a Changing Europe initiative.
Jan Eichhorn (@eichhorn_jan)
The University of Edinburgh
Dr Jan Eichhorn is Chancellor’s Fellow in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include subjective well-being, political participation, political culture and survey methodology. He is Founding Partner and Research Director of the think tank d|part.
Speakers (K – O)
Eva Kassoti
The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Eva is a senior lecturer in law at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. Eva read law at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, and was subsequently admitted to the Greek bar. She completed the LL.M. in Public International Law at the University of Nottingham and obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Bristol.
Iryna Kushnir
The University of Edinburgh
Iryna Kushnir is PhD Candidate in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include higher education policy, pedagogy, Europeanisation, institutions and institutional change and public policy in Ukraine.
Events featuring Iryna Kushnir
Robert Liñeira (@rlineira)
The University of Edinburgh
Dr Robert Liñeira is Research Fellow in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests focus on public opinion and electoral behaviour, particularly concerning constitutional preferences in multi-national polities, voting in multi-level contexts and referendum voting.
Events featuring Robert Liñeira
Tobias Lock (@TobiasLock)
The University of Edinburgh
Dr Tobias Lock is Senior Lecturer in European Union Law and Co-Director of the Edinburgh Europa Institute at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the EU’s multilevel relations with other legal orders, including the European Convention on Human Rights.
Cormac Mac Amhlaigh
The University of Edinburgh
Dr Cormac Mac Amhlaigh is Senior Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research includes work on UK constitutional law, public law, constitutional theory and post-state law and constitutionalism.
Events featuring Cormac Mac Amhlaigh
Dr Leandro Mancano
The University of Edinburgh
Dr Leandro Mancano is Lecturer in European Union Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include EU constitutional law, EU fundamental rights law, Justice and Home Affairs policy and deprivation of liberty.
Events featuring Leandro Mancano
Luke March
The University of Edinburgh
Prof Luke March is Professor of Post-Soviet and Comparative Politics and Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Centre at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include the politics of the former Soviet Union, the radical left in Europe and populism.
Alex Marshall
The University of Glasgow
Dr Alexander Marshall is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow. His research interests include Russian/Soviet political and military history, counter-insurgency and revolution, and the geopolitics of the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Events featuring Alex Marshall
Benedita Menezes Queiroz
The University of Lisbon
Dr Benedita Menezes Queiroz is Guest Lecturer in Law at the University of Lisbon and Deputy Secretary-General of the Lisbon Centre for Research in Public Law. Her research interests include EU migration law, illegality in migration and human rights law.
Events featuring Benedita Menezes Queiroz
Nina Miller Westoby
The University of Glasgow
Nina Miller Westoby is University Teacher in Law and PhD Candidate in Law at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include UK public law and EU law, specifically free movement of persons, EU citizenship, immigration and asylum and discrimination law.
Events featuring Nina Miller Westoby
Nataliya Muzyka (@MN000ST)
The University of Edinburgh
Nataliya Muzyka is PhD Candidate in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research compares the influence of the European Union on democratisation processes in Poland and Ukraine. She was Co-Convenor of the Edinburgh Europa Research Group (2014-2017).
Events featuring Nataliya Muzyka
Niamh Nic Shuibhne
The University of Edinburgh
Prof Niamh Nic Shuibhne is Professor of European Union Law at the University of Edinburgh. She is Joint Editor of the Common Market Law Review and her research focuses on substantive EU law from a constitutional perspective, in particular on free movement law.
Events featuring Niamh Nic Shuibhne
Prof Dr Gabriela Oanta
University of A Coruña
Gabriela is an associate professor of public international law at the University of A Coruña. She is the Director of the ‘Salvador de Madariaga’ University Institute for European Studies and a holder of the Jean Monnet Module “European Union’s Integrated Maritime Policy”. Her recent research focuses on the law of the sea, CFP, and business and human rights.
Ciarán O’Driscoll
Irish Maritime Development Office
Ciarán holds Master (European Integration Studies) and Bachelor (History, Politics & Social Studies) degrees from the University of Limerick. Ciarán is an independent researcher, with an accomplished record of over six years in marine policy tracking, analytics and reporting for universities, research bodies and broadcasters.
Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood
King’s College London
Ifesinachi is a final year PhD candidate in Leadership, Security and Development and a Teaching Assistant in Contemporary Security Issues. Her research focuses on the human and national security implications of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the Gulf of Guinea.
Speakers (P – T)
Daniel Owen
Barrister at Fenners Chambers
Daniel specialises in marine public law, i.e. the law that governs our use of the world’s seas and oceans. Daniel’s practice is mainly advisory and includes both contentious and non-contentious work. His clients include companies, environmental NGOs, public bodies and intergovernmental organisations. Daniel also provides training seminars on marine law to both lawyers and non-lawyers.
Virginia Passalacqua
European University Institute
Virginia Passalacqua is PhD Candidate in European Union Law at the European University Institute. Her research focuses on the political role of courts and how citizens and migrants can operate with them to protect their rights.
Events featuring Virginia Passalacqua
Suzana Pecin
University of Ljubljana
Suzana is a PhD Candidate in EU Constitutional Law at the University of Ljubljana. Her research primarily focuses on whether the highest courts in the member states of the EU respect the doctrine of supremacy of the EU law.”
Luigi Francesco Pedreschi (@luigi_pedreschi)
European University Institute
Luigi Francesco Pedreschi is PhD Candidate in European Union Law at the European University Institute. His research focuses on the place of public services in EU law, including in EU trade agreements with third countries.
Events featuring Luigi Francesco Pedreschi
William Phelan
Trinity College Dublin
Dr William Phelan is Associate Professor of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin. His research interests include the politics of European law and international political economy. His latest book on the European Court of Justice is entitled In Place of Inter-State Retaliation (2015).
Events featuring William Phelan
Anne-Carlijn Prickartz
University of Salzburg
Anne-Carlijn is a PhD Candidate in Law and University Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Department of Public Law, Public International Law and European Law/Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies of the University of Salzburg.
Eva Romée van der Marel
University of Tromsø
Eva is a doctoral candidate at the Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea. Her main supervisors are Prof Joanne Scott of the European University Institute and Asst Prof Elise Johansen. Eva writes about the role of the market State in combating IUU fishing.
Ben Rosamond (@BenRosamond1)
The University of Copenhagen
Prof Ben Rosamond is Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, where he is principal investigator of the EuroChallenge research programme. His research interests include European political economy, the European political-economic space, governance and legitimacy.
Anthony Salamone (@AMSalamone)
The University of Edinburgh
Anthony Salamone is PhD Candidate in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. He is Managing Editor of European Futures and his research focuses on the politics of the UK’s EU relations. He was Co-Convenor of the Edinburgh Europa Research Group (2014-2017).
Events featuring Anthony Salamone
Valentin Schatz
University of Trier
Valentin is a Ph.D. Candidate and Research Associate at the Chair for Public Law, in particular Public International Law and European Law of the University of Trier held by his supervisor Professor Alexander Proelß. In his Ph.D. research, he focuses on the international law of marine living resources
Drew Scott
The University of Edinburgh
Prof Drew Scott FAcSS is Co-Director of the Edinburgh Europa Institute and Professor of European Union Studies at the University of Edinburgh. An economist by training, he specialises in European economic integration, including subsidiarity, Economic and Monetary Union and cohesion.
Marco Siddi (@MarcoSiddi)
Finnish Institute of International Affairs
Dr Marco Siddi is Senior Research Fellow in the European Union Research Programme at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. His areas of expertise include EU-Russia relations, EU energy policy and European security.
Antti Silvast (@anttisilvast)
The University of Edinburgh
Dr Antti Silvast is Research Fellow in European Energy Policy and Markets at the University of Edinburgh. His current project, funded through the Scottish ClimateXChange, analyses European energy policy developments and their implications for Scotland and the UK.
Events featuring Antti Silvast
Kathryn Simpson (@DrKathrynSimps)
Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Kathryn Simpson is Lecturer in Politics and Public Services at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research interests include comparative European politics, political behaviour, public opinion and Brexit. She is Co-Editor Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER).
Events featuring Kathryn Simpson
Francesca Soliman (@FraSoliman)
The University of Edinburgh
Francesca Soliman is PhD Candidate in Law at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include the European Union’s management of irregular migration through its Southern border and assess its agreement with the fundamental principles underpinning the European Convention on Human Rights.
Events featuring Francesca Soliman
Rob Steenkamp
University of Trier
Robert is a PhD Candidate at the University of Trier, Germany. His research interests include international law of the sea, international environmental law and international State responsibility.
Grant Stirling
The University of Edinburgh
Grant Stirling is PhD Candidate in Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include EU competition law, EU trade law, consumer protection and private international law. He was Co-Convenor of the Edinburgh Europa Research Group (2013-2014).
Events featuring Grant Stirling
Ezel Tabur (@ezeltabur)
The University of Aberdeen
Dr Ezel Tabur is Teaching Fellow in Politics at the University of Aberdeen. Her research interests include the politics and policies of international migration, EU institutions and policy-making processes, and the EU’s neighbourhood.
Richard Tepper
The University of Edinburgh
Richard Tepper is currently doing a PhD in the Law School. He works on Competition policy for the collaborative economy. He is a lawyer (Supreme Court of Chile) and completed an LLM at University of Edinburgh, before starting his PhD.
Events featuring Richard Tepper
Myrto Tsakatika
The University of Glasgow
Dr Myrto Tsakatika is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include EU institutions and governance, the politics of economic and social policy, Southern European politics and radical left parties.
Events featuring Myrto Tsakatika
Speakers (U – Z)
Martijn van den Brink
European University Institute
Martijn van den Brink is PhD Candidate in European Union Law at the European University Institute. He research interests include the jurisprudence of the EU courts and the European legal dimension of national welfare systems.
Events featuring Martijn van den Brink
Mihail Vatsov
The University of Edinburgh
Mihail is a Co-Convenor of the Edinburgh Europa Research Group and a PhD Candidate in Law at The University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the actorness of the EU in its external Common Fisheries Policy, using the concept of Normative Power Europe.
Prof Robert Volterra
Volterra Fietta
Robert is the founding partner of Volterra Fietta and a Visiting Professor of International Law at UCL. He regularly represents governments and advises private entities on a wide range of law of the sea issues, including in relation to fisheries. He has acted as lead counsel for several governments in maritime disputes before the ICJ and UNCLOS Annex VII arbitral tribunals.
Neil Walker
The University of Edinburgh
Prof Neil Walker FRSE FBA is Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the University of Edinburgh. His research interest include constitutional theory, UK and EU public law, legal order and political community.
Auke Willems (@WillemsAuke)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Dr Auke Willems recently completed his PhD in European Union Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His research interests include EU criminal law, international criminal law, human rights law and mutual trust within mutual recognition-based criminal justice cooperation.
Adrienne Yong (@adrienney_)
The University of Hertfordshire
Dr Adrienne Yong is Lecturer in Law at the University of Hertfordshire. Her research interests include EU citizenship law, EU fundamental rights law, the Court of Justice of the EU, identity and political theories of citizenship.
Events featuring Adrienne Yong
Prof Hubert Zimmermann
Philipps-University of Marburg
Hubert is a Professor in International Relations at Philipps University Marburg, Germany. His current research interests focus on international security, global financial and monetary policy, the European Union, in particular foreign economic and security policy, including fisheries policy.