Notes on Contributors
Niki Aloupi
is Professor at University Paris ii Panthéon-Assas and Judge Advocate at the National Court for Asylum in France (cnda).
Téa Braun
is the executive director of the Human Dignity Trust, a London-based organisation that uses the law to defend the human rights of lgbt people globally. Since 2012, Téa has been involved in supporting court cases in all regions of the world that seek to decriminalise lgbt people and challenge other discriminatory actions against them, including several landmark cases that are pushing the boundaries of international and constitutional law. She has overseen ground-breaking global research on the extent to which discriminatory sexual offences laws continue to foment stigma, discrimination and violence against lgbt people, women, children and persons with disabilities, including Good Practice in Human Rights Compliant Sexual Offences Laws in the Commonwealth(2019). Téa is a member of the Law Society of British Columbia, Canada (non-practising) and her expertise is in international human rights law and comparative constitutional law, with a particular focus on women’s human rights and lgbt human rights. In addition to several years in private legal practice in Canada, she has also previously held inter-governmental appointments as Gender Equality Advisor to the Secretariat of the Pacific Community and Human Rights Advisor to the Commonwealth Secretariat. She has advised multiple governments, civil society organisations and litigants across Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Caribbean.
Pasquale De Sena
is Full Professor of International Law and International Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law, Catholic University, Milan (2011-); P.H.D. International Law, University of Florence (1991); visiting Professor at Université de Strasbourg (2007), Université Paris i, Panthéon Sorbonne (2010), Université Paris ii, Panthéon Assas (ihei; 2012); visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and Public International Law (Heidelberg 1995) and Guest Researcher the Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law (Luxembourg 2015); associate fellow of the “Centre d’études des normes juridiques” (Paris, ehess: 2010–2016). Lectures at the International Institute of Human Rights “René Cassin” (2007, 2008, 2010) and The Hague Academy of International Law (2016; special course on ‘Dignité humaine et droit international’). Co-founder and general editor of the legal journal Diritti umani e diritto internazionale (2007-). Permanent member of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Human Rights of the Italian Government (2013-). He has published 2 authored books, coedited 2 collective books and written about 70 articles and book chapters on Public International Law.
Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz
is a Reader in Transnational Law at King’s College London, where he also co-directs the Transnational Law Institute and is an affiliate of the Brazil Institute. He is the author of Health as a Human Right. The Politics and Judicialization of Health in Brazil (Cambridge University Press 2020) and has an extensive list of other publications in the fields of human rights, health and development. He has been a consultant for the World Bank and the Open Society and a senior research officer to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health.
Micaela Frulli
is Full Professor of International Law at the University of Florence. She was Marie Curie Fellow at the European University Institute (2010) and coordinated several research projects. Her research interests include international criminal law, the law of immunities, the law of international organizations. Amongst her publications: The duty of care of International Organizations towards their Civilian Personnel, (co-editor with Andrea de Guttry and Edoardo Greppi, Asser Press, 2018); War Crimes and the Conduct of Hostilities. Challenges to Investigation and Adjudication (co-editor with Judge F.Pocar and M. Pedrazzi, Elgar, 2013). She is member of the Editorial Board of qil Questions of international and member of the International Law Association (ila) study group on the role of individual in international law.
Rosana Garciandia
is a Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer in Public International Law at King’s College London. Her research focuses on the international law of state responsibility and the response of international law to contemporary forms of slavery and human trafficking. In March 2020, she was selected to present her work on State Responsibility for Modern Slavery with Professor Philippa Webb at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law’s International Comparative Law Quarterly (iclq) 2020 Annual Lecture. She is also a Fellow of the Macrocrimes Center of the University of Ferrara and, as a consultant at the United Nations University Center for Policy Research, she has worked with the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Urmila Bhoola. She has extensive experience working at international organisations in the areas of EU Law (European Law Institute), human rights (EU Agency for Fundamental Rights) and international anti-corruption law (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime).
Andrea Gattini
is Professor of International Law at the Law School of the University of Padua. He is an associated member of the International Law Association, Institut des Hautes études internationales (Paris) and of several other international academic institutions. Formerly, he was External Scientific Fellow at Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law (Department of International Law and Dispute Resolution). He served as counsel of the Federal Republic of Germany before the International Court of Justice (2008–2012).
Francesca Ippolito
is currently Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Cagliari, Italy. She has been selected for the Research Center of the Hague Academy of International Law on International Migrations in 2010 (directors G. Goodwin-Gill and P. Weckel) and has been Visiting Fellow at the School of Law of the University of Glasgow, Galway, the University of Sevilla and Valencia as well as Visiting Professor at the University Montesquieu-Bordeaux iv and University of Grenoble-Alpes. She regularly participates in national and international research projects and has written on international migration law, child law, international human rights and EU institutional issues. Her most recent books include (with G. Borzoni and F. Casolari), Bilateral Relations in the Mediterranean. Prospects for migration issues, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020 (with M.E. Bartoloni, M. Condinanzi), The proliferation of integration principles in EU law: towards a more policy consistency? Routledge, 2018 (with G. Biagioni), Migrant children: challenges for international law, Napoli, Editorale Scientifica Italian (esi), 2016(with S. Iglesias Sanchéz), The protection of vulnerable groups. The European Human Rights Framework, Oxford (Hart Publishing), 2015 (with S. Trevisanut), Migration in the Mediterranean: Mechanisms of international cooperation, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press), 2015 (with A. Abass), Regional approaches to asylum seekers protection: an international law perspective, London (Ashgate), 2014.
Stefan Kirchner
is Associate Professor of Arctic Law at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland and docent of Fundamental and Human Rights at the same university. He has taught courses on human rights and international law in Finland, Italy, Germany, Ukraine, Lithuania and Greenland and has worked as a lawyer in private and government practice in his native country, Germany.
Timo Koivurova
is a research professor and director of the Arctic Centre (University of Lapland, Finland). He is also a docent at the universities of Turku and Eastern Finland (international law).
Robert Kolb
is Professeur de droit international public à l’université de Genève.
Alessandra Pietrobon
is full Professor of International Law and Humanitarian and Disarmament Law at the University of Padova. She published several articles on the subject in international top journals and recently wrote the first comprehensive book on interstate arbitration.
Giorgio Sacerdoti
is emeritus professor of international law at Bocconi University Milan, specializing on international trade, investments, arbitration, anti-corruption. From 2001–2009 he was a member of the Appellate Body of the wto. He is president of the Italian Jewish Contemporary Documentation Centre – cdec and a member of the Italian Advisory Commission on Religious Liberty.
Matteo Sarzo
holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Padova (Italy) and Paris i – Panthéon Sorbonne. He has published several articles in the field of public international law, focusing on immunities, international adjudication, human rights and international investment law. He is the author of a recent book dealing with the role performed by international courts in shaping the direct effect of international rules to be applied in the domestic legal orders.
Christian Tomuschat
is professor em., Faculty of Law, Humboldt University Berlin. Dr. juris h.c. (Zürich and Tartu). Former member, UN Human Rights Committee (1977–1986), former member and chairperson, International Law Commission (1985–1996). Judge at the Administrative Tribunals of the Inter-American Development Bank and the African Development Bank. Coordinator of the Commission for Historical Clarification, Guatemala (1997–1999). President of the osce Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (2013–2019). Called for lecturing at the Hague Academy of International Law (1993 and 1999). Recent publications: Enforcement of International Law, Heidelberg Journal of International Law 2019; Flexibility in International Dispute Settlement. Conciliation Revisited, ed. together with Marcelo Kohen, 2020.
Tullio Treves
is Emeritus professor of the State University of Milan. Former Judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Member of the Institut de droit international and of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of international Law. Arbitrator and advocate in international disputes. Senior Public International Law Consultant, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle llp. Most recent main publication: “The Expansion of International Law.- General Course on Public International Law (2015)”, Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law, vol. 398.
Christian Walter
is Chair of Public International Law and Public Law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. His publications include Institutionalised International Law (Hart 2015, with Matthias Ruffert).
Philippa Webb
is Professor of Public International Law at King’s College London. She previously worked at the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court and United Nations Headquarters. She serves on the editorial boards of the Leiden Journal of International Law, the British Yearbook of International Law and the Journal of International Criminal Justice. She is a member of the governing board of the European Society of International Law. Her publications include Oppenheim’s International Law: The United Nations (oup, 2017) (with Dame Rosalyn Higgins gbe qc, Dapo Akande, Sandesh Sivakumaran, and James Sloan), which was awarded the asil Certificate of Merit 2019 for High Technical Craftmanship and Utility to Practitioners and Scholars.