Notes on Contributors
Vadim Absaliamov
holds a law degree from Higher School of Economics, Moscow. He interned at major international law firms doing international arbitration and corporate law. While studying at Higher School of Economics Vadim was a research assistant working on international law, investor-state arbitration and wto law. He also participated in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and the John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition. His interests include investor-state arbitration, international commercial arbitration and international trade law.
Timur Abushakhmanov
is an Associate of Rybalkin, Gortsunyan & Partners (Moscow) joining the firm in 2020. Previously he worked for the leading Russian law firm. Timur specializes in international commercial arbitration and litigation. He acted as a counsel in the arbitration proceedings under the scc Rules, the lcia Rules and the Rules of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation. Timur also appeared before the Russian commercial (arbitrazh) courts of all instances, including the Supreme Arbitrazh Court, chiefly, on the matters involving bankruptcy and corporate disputes. Timur was admitted to the Moscow City Bar Association in 2015. As Chevening scholar for 2018–2019, he received an LL.M. in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution from Queen Mary University of London in 2019.
Aidana Aldiyarova
is a research fellow at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. After completing a Bachelor’s Degree in Jurisprudence at L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, received her Master’s Degree in Law at Cardiff University and Doctoral Degree in International Law at Xiamen University. She was a lecturer at the Faculty of International Law of M. Narikbayev kazguu University in 2013–2015. Her research areas are public international law and investment law.
Aleksandr Alekseenko
is an associate professor at the Department of Civil Law Disciplines of Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service and a visiting professor at the Law School of Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok). Also, he is a member of the Association of Lawyers of Russia, an independent expert accredited to conduct anti-corruption expertise of regulatory legal acts and Member of the Public Council under the Ministry for Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic. Aleksandr received his masters degree (with honors) from the Far Eastern Federal University and a PhD in laws from the Ural State Law University (Yekaterinburg). He also studied Chinese language at the Linyi Normal University. His expertise covers international investment law, Russian company law, and Chinese business law. Aleksandr have more than 40 publications including “Legal regulation of foreign direct investment in the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China: comparative legal aspect” (in Russian) and “Chinese Business Law” (in Russian) co-authored with Chinese and Russian lawyers.
Azar Aliyev
is an Associate Professor of International Economic and Comparative Law, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Dr Azar Aliyev, LL.M joined in 2017 the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg as associate professor of International Business Law and Comparative Law. Before he worked as a research assistant at the Institute of East European Law at the University of Kiel. Dr Aliyev focuses his research in the field of international economic and comparative law with special focus on Central Asia and the Caucasus as well as on international arbitration law.
Anna Aseeva
is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration at Łazarski University, Warsaw, with the secondary appointment as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Higher School of Economics (hse University). She holds a Ph.D in law from the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), Paris; a Master in European law and institutions from the University of Geneva; a degree in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva; and degrees in arts and in law from the Russian Federation. Anna held visiting research and teaching appointments at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.; hec Paris; Global Studies Institute (gsi), the University of Geneva; the Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts), the University of Copenhagen; and Lille Catholic University; and, most recently, Common Law Section, University of Ottawa. Dr. Aseeva’s current endeavours of research and teaching are focused on the development of the concept of sustainability law. Her detailed case studies delve into specific topics of the interface of sustainability with global economic law and governance.
Ramin Babayev
is currently a Masters student in Law of International Trade, Finance and Economic Integration at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. He holds a bachelor degree in law at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Ramin successfully completed Chinese language and culture course in Beijing Normal University. In 2019, he took “The dizzying advances in science and social studies” course in Strasbourg, France. He completed internship in the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan. Now, he is a lawyer in “Allied Legal Partners” law firm in Azerbaijan. Ramin speaks and uses in his work and studies Azerbaijani, Russian, English, French, Chinese and Spanish languages.
Erin Brousseau
is a ma candidate in Regional Studies with the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. She received a ba in Jurisprudence and French from Amherst College, after which she spent a year as a visiting scholar at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, studying geopolitics and political theory. Erin has taught and conducted research in Russia as a Fulbright and University Consortium fellow, and researched in Georgia through a PepsiCo travel grant. She currently works with a Washington, D.C.-based buyers’ alliance to help corporate entities scale renewable energy procurement. Her interests include international economic law and the impact of renewables on energy geopolitics.
Valeria Butyrina
is a legal counsel at the Russian Arbitration Center at the Russian Institute of Modern Arbitration (rac). Valeria administers arbitral proceedings and has acted as a tribunal assistant in plenty of arbitrations under the Arbitration Rules of the Russian Arbitration Center. Valeria is actively involved in rac activities, connected with the promotion of arbitration in Russia and abroad. Beyond that Valeria is a research associate at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow.
Julien Chaisse
is Professor at the City University of Hong Kong, School of Law. He is an award-winning scholar of international law with a focus on the regulation and development of economic globalization. His teaching and research include international trade/investment law, international taxation, international arbitration, and Internet law. Dr Chaisse has over fifteen years of teaching experience at universities mainly in Hong Kong, U.S., and Europe. Dr Chaisse served as a senior fellow at the World Trade Institute (Switzerland), and as a diplomat for the Embassy of France in New Delhi (India). Dr Chaisse has published numerous well-regarded and widely cited books and articles and his scholarship has been cited with approval by international courts/tribunals, and U.S. Courts. He has constantly set up forward-looking interdisciplinary projects, such as the series of “Asia fdi Forum,” one of the most prominent conferences on foreign investment law and economics in Asia-Pacific. His work has also attracted substantial research funding, including the Jean Monnet Network’s “The European Union at the Crossroads of Global Order” (eucross), one of the biggest interdisciplinary research project for the EU. As a leading scholar in the field of international economic law, Dr Chaisse sits on the editorial board of several high-impact international journals. Dr Chaisse is also an experienced arbitrator and a sought-after consultant/expert to international organizations, governments, multinational law firms, and private investors. Dr Chaisse is also an active member of the World Economic Forum (“Global Future Council on International Trade and Investment” and “Tax and Globalization Working Group”). Dr. Chaisse is an advisor & partner to the United Nations artnet on fdi, member of the Academic Forum on isds, and Advisory board member of the Asian Academy of International Law (aail).
Dmitry Davydenko
is a known Russian expert in mediation, arbitration and litigation. Practising in legal consulting for more than 15 years he has been involved in many Russian and cross-border litigations and arbitrations relating to various economic sectors, including natural resources and construction works. He has taken part in international arbitrations under the Rules of icc and other arbitral institutions. He also provides expertise on Russian legal matters, especially on procedural law, the judicial system, regulation of business, civil and commercial law. He is the author of over 80 research papers (including 2 books) published in Russia, the UK, US, Germany and other countries covering various issues of transnational dispute resolution, regulation of international trade. Listed as a recommended arbitrator of the International Commercial Arbitration Court and Maritime Arbitration Commission at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Director and co-editor of cis Arbitration Forum, a think-tank focusing on dispute resolution involving parties from the region. Visiting Researcher and scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg. Included in the list of best practitioners in arbitration in Russia under 45 as of the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 by Who’s Who Legal and gar.
Glenn Diesen
is an Associate Professor at the University of Southeast Norway, and an Associate Editor at the Russia in Global Affairs journal. His research focus is Russian conservatism and the geoeconomics of the Greater Eurasia Initiative. Diesen’s latest books are Russian Conservatism: Managing Change under Permanent Revolution (forthcoming); Great Power Politics in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Geoeconomics of Technological Sovereignty (forthcoming); Russia in a Changing World (2020); The Decay of Western Civilisation and Resurgence of Russia: Between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft (2018); Russia’s Geoeconomic Strategy for a Greater Eurasia (2017); and EU and nato relations with Russia: After the collapse of the Soviet Union (2015).
Ekaterina Diyachenko
graduated with honours from the Samara State University in 2006. In 2012 she defended a PhD thesis in private international law. Her professional background includes working at the Federal Financial Markets Service (2005–2007), at an arbitration court of appeal (2007–2010) and as an associate at a law firm (2010–2012) where she specialized in tax law and litigation. With the creation of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Community in 2012, she started working as a legal assistant to a judge. She co-authored a book on the role of the Court in the Eurasian integration (Dyachenko, E.B., Myslivskii, P.P., Neshataeva, T.N. 2015.Evraziiskaya integratsiya: rol suda [Eurasian Integration: The Role of the Court]). From January 2015 she has been working as a counsellor to a judge at the newly created Court of the Eurasian Economic Union. She is the author of a number of articles on eaeu law and the case-law of the eaeu Court. Her research interests include the legal aspects of Eurasian integration, procedural law and private international law.
Yulia Dragunova
is an LL.M. Candidate at Queen Mary University of London pursuing a degree in International Economic Law. Previously, she worked on international arbitration and litigation projects at one of the leading Russian law firms. Yulia holds an llb from National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia). In 2016–2017, Yulia was a research scholar at University of Maine School of Law. She is also pursuing a Master degree in Law of International Trade, Finance, and Economic Integration at Higher School of Economics (Moscow). Currently, she is working as a research associate at Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and a research assistant at Queen Mary University of London. Her academic and professional interests include international investment law, international arbitration, international trade law, sustainable development.
Kirill Entin
is Deputy Registrar – Head of the Legal Research and Analysis Department at the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union and Head of the Eurasian sector at the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (cceis). He is also a visiting professor at the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (Moscow) where he teaches EU law and EU-Russia relations. He holds LL.M. degrees from mgimo University (Moscow) and the College of Europe (Brugge) and defended a PhD thesis in European law at mgimo University. Prior to joining the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union in 2015 as a counsellor of the legal research and analysis department he was an associate professor at the Higher School of Economics and a research fellow at the cceis. Kirill Entin specialises in EU law and, in particular, competition law and the law of external relations. In 2012–2013 he completed an internship at the Court of Justice of the European Union and is the author of the first Russian textbook focusing on the case-law of the cjeu. He is the author of a number of articles on the law of the Eurasian Economic Union law and is a member of the editorial board of the “International justice” journal.
Vasilii Erokhin
is Associate Professor at School of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University, China. Since 2017, Dr. Erokhin is a researcher at the Center for Russian and Ukrainian Studies (crus) and Arctic Blue Economy Research Center (aberc) Harbin Engineering University, China. Dr. Erokhin is an author of many publications in the areas of international trade, globalization, sustainable development, food security issues with a focus on emerging markets, developing countries, and economies in transition. Dr. Erokhin is an editor and board member in several peer-reviewed journals, a holder of the honorary awards from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia. In 2018 and 2019, Dr. Erokhin was named among the Publons top peer reviewers in cross-field studies and environment and ecology.
Natalia Gaidaenko Schaer
is a senior Lawyer of the branch of the company Secretan Troyanov Schaer sa (Switzerland) in Moscow. Areas of specialization: law of contracts, private international law, international arbitration, mediation. Natalia is on the list of recommended arbitrators of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, of the Arbitration Center at the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, of the Russian Arbitration Center and of the Court of Arbitration for Art (cafa). Professional mediator, trainer, member of the Panel of Mediators in Conciliation Proceedings at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Accredited mediator (Swiss Chamber of Commercial Mediation, Swiss Federation of Mediation Associations). PhD in law, a senior scientific fellow of the Department of civil law of foreign States of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law Studies with the Government of the Russian Federation. Deputy head of the Center of Promotion of Mediation and adr (somediars) of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law Studies with the Government of the Russian Federation. Guest lecturer at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy.
Tianming Gao
is Associate Professor at School of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University, China. He is a Director and Chief Expert of the Center for Russian and Ukrainian Studies (crus) and Arctic Blue Economy Research Center (aberc) at Harbin Engineering University, Deputy Head of the Heilongjiang International Economic and Trade Association, leading consultant of governmental bodies and commercial organizations in the sphere of economic collaboration between China, Russia, and the Republic of Korea. He has over 15 years of professional experience as a general representative of Chinese transnational corporation in Russia and the cis. Dr. Gao is an author of many publications related to China’s Arctic policy and developments, China-Russia and China-Nordic collaboration in the spheres of economic development, industrial policy, and investment.
Rinat Gareev
is a Russian-qualified lawyer. Rinat holds common law and civil law degrees, and he is currently seeking admittance to the New York Bar. He obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Trade and Dispute Resolution from the University of Illinois College of Law, and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. His professional and academic interests include international commercial arbitration, consumer arbitration, and cross-border litigation, as well as aviation law, logistics and supply chain management. Rinat worked as an assistant to the Professor at the hse (Moscow), assisted with research on a broad range of legal matters, spanning laws on civil procedure and conflict of laws. Later, he joined the UK-based legal-tech firm, where, in his role of a junior and senior associate, he assisted the legal team in representing the interests of air-passengers before the EU State courts, consumer protection centres and in adr proceedings against major airlines. Rinat completed several internships in the field of international arbitration and cross-border dispute resolution.
Jędrzej Górski
is a research fellow at the Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong. He has primarily conducted research and published on various aspects of international trade and government procurement. His expertise also covers social entrepreneurship, the regulatory environment for infrastructural projects, energy and natural resources. Jędrzej received his Magister Iuris (long-cycle, summa cum laude) from the University of Warsaw and a PhD in laws from the cuhk. He also studied at the Levin College of Law, the University of Florida and at the University of Padua during his master’s program, and conducted research at the Melbourne Law School as the 2014 Endeavour Research Fellow during his doctoral program, and worked is a post-doctoral research associate at the ucl Australia (2017). Prior to joining academia, Jędrzej worked for two years in the Warsaw Office of the cms Cameron Mckenna llp. He was a member of the real estate and construction department. In his practice, he dealt with transactions related to commercial properties and huge infrastructural projects in the energy and extractive sectors. Jędrzej’s publications include a book titled “The Belt and Road Initiative, Law, Economics, And Politics” (Brill Nijhoff 2018) co-edited with Julien Chaisse. and a report titled “Regulatory Framework on Environmental Impacts and Community Acceptance of Shale Gas” (24 May 2018) ShaleXenvironmenT Horizon 2020 project H2020-lce-2014-1 co-authored with Christine Trenorden.
Turkhan Ismayilzada
is a doctoral researcher at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Mr Ismayilzada holds Bachelor of Laws (with distinction) from Baku State University, LL.M. from University of San Francisco School of Law in International Transactions and Comparative Law (top 5% of the class) and is currently doing his PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Law (full scholarship from Volkswagen Foundation). His research currently is tailored around contracts concluded by Artificial Intelligence and doctrinal questions it raises. Apart from doctoral research, Mr Ismayilzada is also extensively researching in international arbitration law.
Stephan Karall
is working as Legal Counsel for the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (viac) since January 2019. Stephan is not only responsible for the administration of viac proceedings and the co-organisation of various viac events, but also authors articles on commercial arbitration and acts as a lecturer at the University of Innsbruck. He studied law at the University of Vienna Law School, where he has already gained experience in arbitration and corporate law during his studies working at a renowned Viennese law firm. After graduating (Mag.iur 2015) and finishing his legal practice at Austrian Courts, he worked as an associate for law firms in Austria.
Alexander Korolev
is a Deputy Head of Eurasian Sector, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. He holds the Master Degree in International Relations. Alexander specializes in theory of international relations, Eurasian integration, security and economic regionalism in Asia-Pacific, Russia-asean relations. Alexander has published more than 35 academic papers in Russian and international peer-reviewed journals including 6 Scopus. Alexander has participated in more than 30 international conferences in Russia, China, Singapore, the U.S., Malaysia, Japan, and South Korea. He has also taken refresher coerces, completed internship and Visiting Fellowship programs in several world’s leading universities and think tanks including Harvard University, Oxford University and Malaysia’s Institute of Strategic and International Studies.
Andrey Kotelnikov
is a Lecturer in the Law School at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen (UK). He is a Deputy Course Leader for Construction Law and Arbitration LL.M. Programme, a Module Leader for Dispute Resolution, Arbitration Law, Online Dispute Resolution and Mediation in Context, and teaches numerous other subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including Advanced Business Law, the Law of Obligations and Evidence, etc. He is an arbitrator and a coach of rgu’s mooting team in Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (Vienna). Before joining the Law School, Andrey for seven years had been a Head of the Commercial Law team at one of Russia’s major energy companies. During the same period, he also taught domestic and comparative litigation and international commercial arbitration in the Urals State Law Academy. He is a graduate of Central European University (Budapest), holds an LL.M in International Business Law from the University of Manchester (UK), and a PhD from the usla.
Anastasia Likhacheva
has a PhD in International relations and works as a Deputy Dean for Research at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs and Director of Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. Her key area of expertise is international political economy and geo-economics with a particular focus on Eurasian Integration and Greater Eurasian projects, Economic Sanctions and Russian-Asian relations. She is an author of more than 50 papers, briefs and working papers published in Russia and abroad. Since 2016, she is also a head of Russian Organizing Committee of the Working Group for the Future of Russian-American relations – a joint project led by hse and Harvard University since 2010.
Smaranda Miron
is an energy lawyer with the Energy Community Secretariat, an international organisation based in Vienna. She handles energy disputes (cases against the Contracting Parties of the Energy Community), supports Energy Community Secretariat’s Dispute Resolution and Negotiation Centre and works, together with the competent national authorities, towards full implementation of the Energy Community acquis. Before joining the Energy Community Secretariat, Smaranda worked as an associate in the International Arbitration Group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and as a public procurement case-handler with the European Commission.
Farrukhbek Muminov
is currently completing his doctoral program at the Department of International Private Law of the Anadolu University, Turkey. He has extensive expertise in international investment law and investment disputes, in particular the legal framework for foreign investment in Central Asian states and Turkey. He graduated from the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Tashkent, Uzbekistan with an llb degree (2008). He also obtained an llm degree (2015) from the Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey.
Pavel Myslivskiy
is Counselor of Judge T.N. Neshataeva at the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union and holds a PhD from the Russian State University of Justice where he teaches courses on law and procedure of the Eurasian Economic Union. Prior to joining the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union Pavel in 2011–2012 worked at the International Law and Cooperation Department of the Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation, in 2012–2015 was an Assistant of Judge T.N. Neshataeva at the Court of the Eurasian Economic Community and assisted in drafting the Statute and the Rules of Procedure of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union, for which he holds honors of the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation. Pavel is an Administrator of the Moot Court Competition “Dispute Resolution in the Eurasian Economic Union”, coach and judge at various moot court competitions and interests in public and private international law, law of international organizations and dispute resolution.
Claudia Pharaon
is a lawyer specialized in public international law and in international arbitration. She is currently a PhD candidate at Leiden Law School and an associate at Obeid Law Firm, where she focuses on both investment and commercial arbitration. Previously, she worked as a research associate at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London. She also has former experience in private practice and in international organisations (the unfccc Secretariat and the oecd). Claudia holds a Maîtrise from the University Panthéon-Assas (Paris ii). She also obtained a Diploma in Legal Studies from the University of Oxford, a Master in International Law and International Administration from the University Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris i) and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. She is qualified to practice law in Paris, England & Wales and New York.
Hakan Şahin
is a Lecturer in Law at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University. Hakan holds a ba/llb in law from Yeditepe University and an llm in International and European Business Law from Anglia Ruskin University and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, again from Anglia Ruskin University. Before joining the Nottingham Law School, Hakan worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Private International Law at the School of Law, Maltepe University, Istanbul.Hakan regularly advises state entities as well as private clients on a range of issues, Investment Law, International Arbitration, and International Trade. Hakan is the author of a monograph and several published works in the field of International Energy Investment Law.
Vladimir Sherov-Ignatev
is an Associate Professor of the World Economy Department and a Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Asian Economic Studies at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia. Vladimir delivers courses on a broad range of subject areas including International Economic Relations, Regional Economic Integration, World Trade Organization, Commercial Diplomacy, Economic Systems of Countries and Regions. He taught as a guest lecturer at universities in Belarus, China, and Germany, and participated in a number of international projects. His research interests concentrate on regional trade agreements with the special emphasis on the customs unions and Eurasian integration projects. He is the author of a monograph, devoted to the asymmetric customs unions; he has authored or co-authored about 60 articles, textbooks, and book chapters.
Aleksandra Shestakova
holds an LL.M. in European and International Business Law from the University of Vienna and is currently a Masters student in Law of International Trade, Finance and Economic Integration at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. She worked for two years as a legal counsel at the Department for Corporate Affairs and International Projects at EvrazHolding llc, Moscow. Currently she works as an expert at eas Strategies llc, Moscow consulting in regulation and policy in the food, nutrition and health fields.
Alexandra Shishkova
holds an LL.M. in Law of International Trade, Finance and Economic Integration from Higher School of Economics, Moscow. In the past, Alexandra interned with various research projects of the Russian International Affairs Council (riac). She equally served as a research associate of the Adviser to the President of the Republic of Moldova on Economic Issues. During this placement, Alexandra examined Moldova’s trade relations with the EU, Turkey and the cis countries. Alexandra’s research interests gravitate towards sustainable development, especially in the Arctic, as well as sustainability in the context of international trade law and policy. Alexandra holds a Degree in International Relations from Higher School of Economics, Moscow.
Benjamin Terrade
is a PhD student in Public International Law at Université Côte d’Azur. He holds a Master degree in European Union Law from the University of Bordeaux and a Master degree in Economic Law from the Nice-Sophia-Antipolis University. Between 2017 and 2019, he worked as a teaching assistant at the French-Belarusian Center for European studies, located in Minsk. He lectured in this center European Union Law and Public International law through lectures and seminars for master student. Benjamin’s researches focus mainly on international investment law and European Union law, especially on the relation between these two legal systems.
Seljan Verdiyeva
is a diplomat at the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. She provides expertise and advice for the government of Azerbaijan on international trade issues and actively participates in trade negotiations. At the Embassy in the Hague she is responsible for bilateral political and economic cooperation between the Netherlands and Azerbaijan, as well as she is the focal point for cooperation of Azerbaijan with international organizations located in the Hague, such as Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, International Court of Justice and etc. She holds llm degree from Duke University School of Law in the USA and is currently at the final stage of completing her PhD studies at the Nuremberg-Erlangen University in Germany.