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- Abdul Paliwala
Emeritus Professor, previously Director, International Development Law and Human Rights, Law Courseware Consortium, Electronic Law Journals. Senior Consultant (ICT) UK Centre for Legal Education; Associate, Centre for Globalisation and Regionalisation. He is on the Justice Sector Consultant Panel, Department for International Development and was the lead EU Consultant, Democratisation and Human Rights in Malawi 1996-7. He has held a wide range of consultancies on human rights resource centres and on C&IT development and advice in Hungary and India.
- Alan Neal
A specialist on European, International & Comparative Employment Law, Professor Neal has served on various expert committees for the Social Affairs Directorate of the European Commission since 1985, and acts as an Independent Expert for the International Labour Organisation. He regularly advises national governments in the field of employment law and social policy, and is actively involved in the provision of specialised judicial training, both in the United Kingdom and abroad, in the areas of employment law and human rights.
- Alice Mah
Alice Mah researches urban, political, and environmental sociology. Her research focuses on industrial ruination and urban decline; environmental justice and corporate sustainability; place and work memory and identity; and the democratisation of science and expertise. She has conducted comparative, mixed-method sociological research in the UK, France, Russia, the US, and Canada.
Alice is Principal Investigator of a 5-year European Research Commission (ERC)-funded project on expertise, environmental justice, and corporate sustainability in the global petrochemical industry (2015-2020). This research project examines debates about health, jobs, risk, and prosperity, through in-depth comparative research in China, the United States, and Europe.
- Andi Hoxhaj
Dr. Hoxhaj's research interests are in the area of European Union law and policy, governance, constitutional law, reflexive governance and social theory of law. He has a special interest and expertise in studying corruption, anti-corruption law and policy, civil society, post-communist transitions, rule of law and regulatory law and policy.
- André Broome
André Broome is Director of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) and Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the University of Warwick.
After obtaining his PhD at the Australian National University he taught at the University of Birmingham before joining the University of Warwick in 2013. Dr Broome has advised international bodies such as the International Relations Committee of the European System of Central Banks (Taskforce on IMF Issues) and the International Monetary Fund. He is the current Chair and former Program Chair of the International Political Economy section of the International Studies Association (ISA), and is a member of the ISA Governing Council.
- Andreas Kokkinis
Research interests include corporate governance, corporate theory, and financial regulation. Currently working on the corporate governance of UK banks from a theoretical and regulatory perspective. Incipient research inlcudes shareholder short-termism and banking prudential regulation.
- Ania Zbyszewska
Feminist and socio-legal approaches to law; EU labour law; EU employment and social policy; working-time regulation, work-family reconciliation and gender policy; women and work; political economy of the law; multilevel governance; post-socialist transition; Polish labour market regulation and gender policy.
- Ann Stewart
Ann researches and writes in the area of gender and the law focussing on issues of gender justice and postcolonialism. She is also interested in issues relating to gender care and body work and gender and multiculturalism in the UK. She works collaboratively with colleagues on developing perspectives on gender and law and women's rights which take account of new global economic and social contexts and is particularly interested in issues relating to South Asia and Africa.
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- Barbara Nastoll
Barbara's research interests are EU Law with a focus on Common Commercial Policy of the EU and EU External Relations, Anti-Dumping, European and International Trade Law, WTO Law, EU Constitutional Law and Public International Law. Currently she is looking at the "Community interest test" in EU trade defence instruments.
- Ben Farrand
Ben joined the University of Warwick School of Law in September 2015, having previously been Lecturer for Intellectual Property Law and Policy at the University of Strathclyde from April 2012. He has recently published the book 'Networks of Power in Digital Copyright Law and Policy: Political Salience, Expertise and the Legislative Process', which is due for publication as a paperback at the end of September 2015. An article analysing lobbying on the development of copyright policies in the EU has recently been published in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.
Ben's research focuses predominantly on the interaction between law and politics, in particular in the development of copyright law and policy at the European level. Other research interests include contemporary issues in patent policy, Internet law, regulatory theory, and law and policy in human enhancement technologies.
- Bill O'Brian
Bill joined the Law School of the University of Warwick in 2001 following seventeen years as a practicing lawyer in the United States, specialising in commercial litigation. He teaches Tort Law, Advanced Legal System, Law & Economics and International Business Transactions. His research interests include private international law, evidence, torts and legal theory. He is currently at work on a book on legal theory, entitled Live and Let Live, as well as on a text cases and materials book on tort law.
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- Celine Tan
Celine's research centres on exploring aspects of international economic law and regulation with a focus on international development financing law, policy and governance. She is also interested in the intersections between law and development, gender, human rights and the environment. Celine has published on issues relating to the law and governance of the international financial architecture, sovereign debt, climate change and sustainable development, the role of international financial institutions and human rights.
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- Dalvinder Singh
Dalvinder teaches and researches on the area of bank and financial regulation from both a theoretical and practical perspective, focussing on the UK system as well as significant aspects of the US system as well the European and international dimensions. He has researched, written and presented on a variety of matters namely the structure of regulation and supervision, risk-based system of supervision, legal accountability of regulators, corporate governance, enforcement sanctions, deposit insurance and the use of external auditors. He is also interested in the area of financial sector reform examining the role of the IMF and World Bank, as well as from a variety of regional perspectives. More recent areas of research include bank insolvency and deposit insurance, both from a comparative perspective.
- Dora Kostakopoulou
Dora Kostakopoulou joined Warwick Law School in September 2012 as Professor of European Union Law, European Integration and Public Policy. Formerly, she was Jean Monnet Professor in European Law and European Integration and Co-director of the Institute of Law, Economy and Global Governance at the University of Manchester (2005-2011) and Professor of European Union Law and Director of the Centre for European Law at the University of Southampton (2011-2012).
Her research interests include European Public Law, Free Movement of Persons and European Union Citizenship, the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Migration Law and Politics, Citizenship, Multiculturalism and Integration, Democracy and Legitimacy in the EU, Law and Global Governance, Political Theory and Constructivism, and, fairly recently, Equality Law.
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- Fiona Smith
Fiona joined the University of Warwick in August 2014 after holding posts at UCL, the University of Sheffield and the University of Leicester. She has a specialist interest in international agricultural trade and investment and has published widely on the subject, including a monograph, Agriculture and the WTO: Towards a WTO Model for International Agricultural Trade Regulation (2009) Edward Elgar. She has spoken about her research to public and private sector audiences in the USA, Europe and the Far East and is an invited expert for the European Commission, [DG DSANCO], Working Group on EU Food Safety in Nutrition in 2050 and for the joint DEFRA/UK Treasury, Balance of Competence Review: Agriculture evaluating the relationship between the EU and the UK.
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- Gabriel Siles-Brügge
Dr Gabriel Siles-Brügge is an Associate Professor in PAIS. His research interests sit at the interface of the study of European Union politics and International Political Economy, where he is currently focusing on:
- the politics of trade and investment negotiations (including of the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership);
- the role of economic ideas in policymaking, notably of quantification and econometric modelling;
- the political economy of Brexit.
- George Meszaros
George has researched and written in the areas of public law (with a specific emphasis on judicial review in the United Kingdom). More recently the emphasis has been on land rights, social movements and aspects of legal change with reference to Brazil. Hi currently completing a monograph on the land question in Brazil which explores relations between the State and the Landless Workers' Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais (MST)).
- Giuliano Castellano
Giuliano's research interests investigate, under different angles, the intersections between financial markets, risk, and governance. By adopting a comparative approach his research focuses on the relationships between systemic risk, regulation, and finance - with particular attention to the role played by the law and by markets in mitigating the impact of catastrophes triggered by extreme natural events (e.g. earthquakes and flooding) and man-made hazards (e.g. financial crises).
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- James Harrison
James Harrison is Associate Professor in the School of Law at the University of Warwick. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Human Rights in Practice and Academic Lead on Warwick's Global Governance Research Priority Programme. He works on human rights law, environmental law and international economic law; non-traditional forms of regulation; methodologies for conducting human rights impact assessments; the use of legal norms by non-governmental organisations.
- John McEldowney
John McEldowney is Professor of Law and Director of the School's new LLM in EU Law in the World Economy. He is one of the joint editors of the Journal of Law, Science and Policy and is an executive member of the Study of Parliament Group, and is editor of the Group's Newsletter for the past ten years. He delivered the 10th Hugh Fitzpatrick Lecture on "Biography and Bibliography" at Kings Inns Dublin Ireland in 2004. In 2001 he was elected the New Zealand Law Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow. He has held visiting appointments in universities in Japan and France. In 2000 he was the World Bank visiting Fellow in the Supreme Court in Venezuelea. In 2004 he was awarded a medal of honour from the University of Lille. He has acted as external examiner for a number of universities, including the Open University.
- John Snape
John writes on property law, tax law and mooting skills and his current research is concentrated in two main areas: the taxation of corporate finance and the use of economic instruments (especially environmental taxes) for environmental protection.
- Julia McClure
Dr McClure is interested in exploring the new opportunities of understanding offered by global history. She has worked on the global Middle Ages, the history of Spain, and the early trans-Atlantic world. Her past research focused on the global history of the Franciscan Order, and their role in the invention of a 'New World' in the Americas leading to her current project in the global history of poverty, which explores the early history of colonialism from a trans-Atlantic perspective.
- Juliane Reinecke
Juliane Reinecke is Professor of Organisation Studies at Warwick Business School and member of the Industrial Relations Research Unit and the Global Research Priority in Global Governance (GRP-GG), University of Warwick. She is also a Research Fellow at the Center for Social Innovation, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, a Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), University of Cambridge, and a Fellow at the World Class Research Environment Responsible Business, Copenhagen Business School. She holds a PhD from the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
- Julio Faundez
Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Warwick. Professor of Law, LCJ (Catholic University, Chile), LLM and SJD (Harvard). Co-editor in Chief of the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press) Editor of book series Law, Development and Globalization (Routledge-Cavendish Press) Julio Faundez teaches international economic law and his main research interest is in the area of law and governance. He has written extensively on legal and judicial reform and has evaluated legal reform projects for the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. He has advised several national agencies and international institutions, including the DFID (UK), the ILO, UNDP, UNCTAD, IADB and the World Bank. He acted as counsel and advocate for the Republic of Namibia in the Case Concerning Kasikili/Sedudu Island (International Court of Justice, 1999). He has advised the Governments of South Africa and Namibia on affirmative action and the Republic of South Korea on Free Trade Agreements. He recently participated in the World Justice Forum organised by the American Bar Association (Vienna 2008). He has recently completed two major reports: one for the ILO on International Labour Standards, Labour Law and Micro and Small Enterprises and the other for the World Bank on judicial reform in Sudan
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- Kathryn McMahon
Kathryn McMahon researches and publishes in the areas of European Union, comparative and international competition law, economic regulation and communications law. Her work has been cited by the High Court and Federal Court of Australia. Prior to coming to Warwick in 2001, Kathryn taught at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. She has spent time as a visiting scholar at the Universities of Texas, Berkeley and the European University Institute. She is an Associate Editor of the Global Journal of Comparative Law: http://www.brill.com/publications/journals/global-journal-comparative-law. In 2013 she will take up a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence.
- Kirsten McConnachie
Kirsten McConnachie is a socio-legal researcher whose work focuses on governance and justice in refugee situations. She has a particular regional interest in southeast Asia and with refugees from Burma/Myanmar, having worked first with Karen refugees living in camps in Thailand and more recently with ethnic Chin refugees in Malaysia and India. She has conducted extensive field research in each of these countries. Her recent book, 'Governing Refugees' (Routledge 2014), analyses camp governance and the administration of justice among Karen refugees in Thailand. This book was awarded the Socio-Legal Studies Association early career book prize for 2015.
Kirsten's research interests span several disciplines, including criminology, victimology, transitional justice, refugee studies and legal anthropology. She has published on issues including governance by armed groups; the history and management of refugee camps; legal pluralism and non-state justice systems; forced migration in southeast Asia; the role of victims in transitional justice; and constitutional reform. A common thread in this work is a focus on pluralistic governance and on the role of non-state actors in governance.
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- Lena Rethel
Lena is Associate Professor of International Political Economy. Her research interests are concentrated in the broad areas of the political economy of finance and Southeast Asian politics. Conceptually, this includes the relationship between finance and development, financialisation and the politics of debt, alternative globalisations and the disciplinary parameters and spatial location of contemporary IPE. Substantively, her work concentrates on both the theories and common senses that underpin financial policymaking, the question of how this leads to institutional change and the socio-economic implications of these changes. She is currently working on a range of projects that explore the relationship between financial system change and development, trajectories of emerging market debt and the emergence of Islamic finance.
- 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.
Lorenzo 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. This includes work on international investment law, human rights, land rights and legal issues related to ‘land grabbing’, as well as the political economy of natural resource investments.
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- Markus Wagner
Professor Wagner teaches and writes in the areas of international law, constitutional law and comparative law. His recent scholarship has focused on the development of autonomous weaponry and its compatibility with international humanitarian law and various aspects of international economic law. The latter includes scholarship on second and third generation barriers to trade (including measures to regulate toxicity and other public health measures) as well as comparisons between the global trade and investment regimes. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Harvard Journal of International Law, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, the Fordham International Law Journal, and the Tulsa Law Review.
- Mohsen Al Attar
Principal Teaching Fellow whose research interests and teaching responsibilities oscillate between international law (public and private), Third World legal studies, and legal methods, skills, and theory.
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- Ralf Rogowski
Main research areas are European Union law, employment law, sociology of law, social theory and comparative law. Over many years Professor Rogowski has been conducting research on governance of employment and social policies in the European Union. He has a special interest in applying social systems theory to the study of law and industrial relations. He is the author of the concepts of reflexive labour law and autopoietic industrial relations, which he used in comparative empirical studies of labour market regulations in the European Union, in particular employment protection and fixed-term contracts.
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- Sam Adelman
Dr Sam Adelman teaches Legal Theory and Comparative Human Rights at undergraduate level and several modules in the LLM in International Development Law and Human Rights. He has degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, Harvard University and Warwick University. He was banned, detained and exiled during the struggle against apartheid. His writings cover legal theory, development and human rights, and he is currently completing a book on sovereignty
Sharifah's current research focuses on how we can achieve global health as a public good through international institutions and human rights. She is currently examining numerous new global health organisations like UNAIDS, The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunisations. She is also interested in the way in which these organisations interact with more traditional ones like the World Health Organisation. Sharifah also works with the Global Priorities Research Programme on Global Governance, where she explores non-traditional forms of regulation in global health governance.
- Sol Picciotto
Sol Picciotto 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.
- Stephen Connelly
Stephen is a qualified solicitor in England & Wales with Frankfurt am Main Bar affiliation. He has 5 years PQE as a commercial and financial litigator, and structured finance transactions.
His research interests include Corporate and financial law; regulation and supervision in the international financial context; legal theory, including natural right theories.
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- Tor Krever
Tor's current research develops a materialist history of maritime piracy in international legal thought. His broader research interests include critical and Marxist approaches to international law, political economy and international development, and left-legal theory.