GLOBE Visitors

Vicente Paolo Yu, Honorary Professorial Fellow

Vicente Paolo Yu is an experienced and highly respected international lawyer, policy advisor and negotiator and scholar on international economic and environmental law. He works as an independent expert and consultant for various United Nations agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). He is a Senior Legal Advisor with the Third World Network (TWN), Visiting Research Fellow at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), and Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Previously, he served as the Deputy Executive Director of the South Centre and coordinated the South Centre’s work on global governance, climate change, investment, South-South cooperation, and sustainable development issues.

Dr Anil Yilmaz Vastardis, Honorary Associate Professor

Dr Yilmaz Vastardis is Senior Lecturer at Essex Law School and the co-director of the Essex Business and Human Rights Project. Her main research interests are in the fields of international investment law and business and human rights. Her research addresses the relationship between corporate law, international investment law, human rights law, and tort law, examining how these areas can and should interact so as to operationalise human rights standards in the modern business context. She has published works in leading international law journals and edited collections on parent-subsidiary relationships in the business and human rights context, non-financial reporting, duty of care in supply chain relationships, human rights in investment contracts and the embedded inequalities in the investment treaty regime. Her book, The Nationality of Corporate Investors under International Investment Law, was published with Hart Publishing in 2020. Currently, she is researching the impact of international investment law on a just and equitable green transition, with a focus on energy transition and climate finance. She is a member of New Frontiers in International Development Finance and a Co-I on the BA funded Equity and the Global Climate Finance Architecture: An Evaluation of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) Framework.

Dr Johanna Aleria P Lorenzo, Visiting Research Fellow

Dr. Johanna Aleria P. Lorenzo is an Assistant Professor in Public International Law at the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL). Her works concentrate on the interactions of sustainable development issues and socio-ecological concerns with international economic law. She specialises in international law and development, international trade law, and the law of international financial institutions (IFIs). In her recently published book, International Financial Institutions and Sustainable Development: Lawmaking and Accountability, Dr Lorenzo analyses how the World Bank and other multilateral development banks participate in the international lawmaking process on sustainable development through their safeguard policies, while further demonstrating that the banks’ creation of independent accountability mechanisms that address grievances of project-affected people has likewise enabled these other non-State actors to become participants in the process of defining sustainable development. During her time at the GLOBE Centre, Dr Lorenzo will share and further develop her working paper that investigates the ‘greening’ of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as part of larger trends such as the ‘economization of nature’ and the systematic disciplining of the Third World. The inquiry focuses on how climate change matters have figured into the IMF’s mandate, and with what legal and financial consequences for its member States, especially developing countries. This work hopes to particularly contribute to the aims of the Climate Finance for Equitable Transitions (CLiFT) project, by unpacking the Fund’s enduring influence in shaping the legal and policy framework governing the generation, mobilization, and distribution of climate finance.

Professor Sol Picciotto, Honorary Professor

Picciotto is emeritus professor of Lancaster University. He is currently Senior Fellow at the International Centre for Tax and Development and a Senior Adviser of the Tax Justice Network, and coordinator of the BEPS Monitoring Group. He has taught at the Universities of Dar es Salaam (1964-8), Warwick (1968-1992), and Lancaster (1992-2007); and was Scientific Director of the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (2009-2011). He is the author of International Business Taxation (1992), Regulating Global Corporate Capitalism (2011), several co-written books, and numerous chapters and articles on various international tax issues and other aspects of international business and economic law. Professor Picciotto is a long-standing friend of the Warwick Law School, having collaborated with us for many years.

Dr Basani Baloyi, Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study and the GLOBE Centre

Dr Baloyi is a Visiting Fellow at the Warwick Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and will be based at the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE), Warwick Law School. Dr Baloyi is Programme Co-Director at the Institute for Economic Justice, South Africa. In this role, she drives innovative work on industrial policy, green transitions and development finance, with a focus on socio-economic justice in the global south. Dr Baloyi holds a PhD in Economics from SOAS, UK and an MA in Public Policy and MCom in Economics from Wits University, South Africa.

Dr Baloyi has extensive policy and research experience in academia and the civil service in South Africa, including as Director of Industrial Policy and Acting Chief Director in the Industrial Procurement Unit at the Department of Trade and Industry. She has authored and edited publications on the South African political economy, development policy and climate finance, including The Evolving Structure of South Africa's Economy (2023), a significant contribution offering critical insights into South Africa’s economic landscape.During her visit, Dr Baloyi will collaborate on the Climate Finance for Equitable Transitions (CLiFT) project, specifically through providing insights and critiques on South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), a climate finance initiative aimed at supporting developing countries in their shift to low-carbon economies.

Likim Ng

Likim is a PhD candidate at the ANU College of Law, Australian National University, where she has taught in the areas of legal theory, critical legal theory and human rights law. Her research is supported by the Australian Government Research Training Program. She obtained a Masters in International and Comparative Law at the University of Helsinki where her thesis was accepted with Exceptional Praise (2013). During her PhD studies, she was awarded a visiting fellowship with a mobility grant scholarship to the Human Rights Institute of Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Prior to commencing at the Australian National University, Likim worked as a Judge's Associate at the Federal Circuit Court of Australia assisting Judge Street and Judge Driver to judicially review protection visa matters. She has worked also as a legal intern at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in The Hague. Her primary research area focuses on critical legal theory approaches to refugee law particularly the heightened security focus on the asylum procedure, issues of sovereignty, rule of law and biopolitics. Her PhD topic looks at the intersection between refugee law and international criminal law namely the exclusion clause of the Refugee Convention.

Dr Lorenzo Cotula

Dr Cotula is a principal researcher in law and sustainable development at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), where he leads the Legal Tools Team. He leads research, capacity and policy work on issues at the interface between law and international development, with a focus on the law governing natural resource rights and investments in low and middle-income countries. He has published widely on land and natural resource rights, investment law and human rights.

Dr Jeremmy Okonjo

Jeremmy is currently a Visiting/Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE), Warwick Law School. He is a Lecturer of Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent, where he has taught Public Law, Contract Law, and other foundational law modules, since 2014. Jeremmy has a PhD in Law from Kent Law School, an LLM degree from University College London (UCL), and LLM and LLB degrees from University of Nairobi. Prior to joining Kent Law School, Jeremmy practiced law in Nairobi, Kenya, where he engaged in constitutional law, human rights, and election law litigation, in addition to transactional work in banking and Finance law, and corporate and commercial law. He also worked with other national, regional and international capital markets stakeholders in promoting the establishment of a commodities and derivatives market in Kenya and the East African region. He has consequently been invited to speaking engagements under the auspices of the securities markets’ World Exchange Congress. Jeremmy is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the UK Constitutional Law Association, and a member of the Law Society of Kenya.

Professor Stephanie de Moerloose

Stephanie de Moerloose is a Professor of International Development Cooperation at the Faculty of Law and of International Programmes at Austral University, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Stephanie is also a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Stephanie’s area of expertise is on international development finance and law, in particular relation to multilateral development banks.

Enzamaria Tramontana

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