The current members of the Network are:
Network Members
Richard Collins
Richard Collins is (since Jan 2015) a lecturer in international law at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin. Prior to that Richard lectured and completed a PhD at the University of Sheffield. Since September 2016. He has also held visiting positions at the University of Amsterdam and the Erik Castren Institute of International…
Dawid Bunikowski
Dawid Bunikowski, born in Poland (the Gdansk region), residing in Finland (North Karelia), has a Doctor of Law (received from Nicolaus Copernicus University in April 2009). I am a philosopher of law (&state) and conduct cross-disciplinary research. I cooperate with the University of the Arctic where I am Leader of the Sub-group of Philosophy…
David Roth-Isigkeit
David is currently Research Fellow at Normative Orders, Cluster of Excellence at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. David’s research focuses on the history and theory of international law, in particular its philosophical and sociological foundations. He is a co- editor of System, Order and International Law: The Early History of International Legal Thought (forthcoming at Oxford University Press,…
Naoyuki Okano
Naoyuki Okano is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University, Japan. He received an LL. M. from Nagoya University and a LL. B. from Waseda University. His research interest is in a theory of transnational law and political theory. His PhD thesis titled as “The Global Land Rush from the Viewpoint…
Prof. Dai YOKOMIZO
Dai YOKOMIZO is Professor of Law at Nagoya University, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya, Japan, where he has taught since 2008. A graduate of The University of Tokyo Graduate School for Law and Politics (LL.B., LL.M.), Professor Yokomizo’s main research and teaching interests include Private International Law, Comparative Law and Private Law Theory. He is…
Miodrag A. Jovanović
Miodrag A. Jovanović (1971) is a Full Professor in Jurisprudence, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. His areas of interest are jurisprudence, philosophy of international law, legal theory of collective rights, political theory of multiculturalism, federalism and legal and political nature of the EU. He is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He…
Felix Lüth
PhD Candidate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and legal advisor at Civitas Maxima Felix is currently writing a PhD at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva on ‘Corporate crimes and the transnationalisation of alternative case-ending procedures: Towards a new transnational legal order on alternative enforcement?’. From summer…
Jaye Ellis
Jaye Ellis is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and School of Environment and Acting Director of the School of Environment, McGill University. She teaches public international law, international environmental law, and environmental epistemology and ethics. Current research projects focus on transnational law, constitutionalisation of international and transnational law, intersections between law and science,…
Dr Kevin Walton
Much of my research is concerned with the issue of political obligation. I am especially interested in whether such obligations extend beyond the state. In previous work, I challenged the assumption that a political obligation must be “particular” to one’s own state. In future work, I wish to consider more substantive questions. See Kevin Walton,…
Dennis Patterson
My interests are transnational legal theory and Global Economic Constitutionalism.
Dr Paul Gragl
Interests within the remit of the network: The relationship between the law of the European Union and public international law, with particular regard to Hans Kelsen’s legal theory The legal theory of Hans Kelsen, including the Kantian and Neo-Kantian influence on Kelsen’s works Secession and Self-Determination in International Law EU accession to the ECHR and…
Lorenzo Zucca
BIOGRAPHY Lorenzo is Professor in Law and Philosophy. He holds the degrees of Maitrise from Paris 2 Assas, DEA from Paris 1 Sorbonne, Mjur from The University of Oxford and a PhD from EUI, Florence. He is the co-director of Kjuris, King’s workshop of jurisprudence RESEARCH Lorenzo’s special interests are in jurisprudence, human rights, law…
Claudio Corradetti
Claudio Corradetti is a political and legal philosopher working at the University of Oslo His interests include theories of human rights, transitional justice and cosmopolitan authority.
Dr Gregory Messenger
Greg is interested in conceptual issues arising from the development and application of international law. His research interests are principally in public international law, international economic law, trade-related aspects of US and EU constitutional law and theoretical approaches to international economic law. His first monograph, The Development of World Trade Organization Law: Examining Change in…
Matej Avbelj
Matej Avbelj is an Associate Professor of European Law at the Graduate School of Government and European Studies, Slovenia, where he also acts as a Dean. He graduated from Ljubljana Faculty of Law, obtained an LL.M at NYU School of Law and defended his PhD at the European University Institute. Dr. Avbelj has written extensively…
Oren Perez
Oren Perez has an LLB (Magna Cum Laude) from Tel Aviv University and LL.M. (1997), Ph.D. (2001) from London School of Economics and Political Science. He also has a BA in Philosophy, University of London (First Class Honours), 2015. He is currently a Prof. of Law at Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law. He primarily works…
Michael Giudice
My research falls mainly in the areas of transnational legal theory, international law, general jurisprudence, and the methodology of legal theory. Recent books include Understanding the Nature of Law: A Case for Constructive Conceptual Explanation (Edward Elgar, 2015), and, with Keith Culver, Legality’s Borders: An Essay in General Jurisprudence (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Lando Kirchmair
A key aspect of my work is aimed at a re-conceptualization of the theoretical relationship between legal orders. The relationship between international and national law has been debated for centuries. Generally, the floor is divided between dualism, as developed by Heinrich Triepel, and monism, mainly formulated by Hans Kelsen, both of which need to be…
Dr. Ziv Bohrer
Dr. Ziv Bohrer is a faculty member at Bar-Ilan University – Faculty of Law. His main areas of research are International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law. Currently he is conducting an extensive research on the centuries-long, forgotten history of International Criminal Law. Dr. Bohrer wrote his Ph.D. (2012) at Tel-Aviv University, on the “The Superior Orders…
Dr. Sivan Shlomo Agon
Dr. Sivan Shlomo Agon is a faculty member at Bar-Ilan University Law School. Previously, Dr. Shlomo Agon was a Fulbright Scholar and Emile Noël Fellow at NYU, and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the ERC Globaltrust Project at Tel-Aviv University Law School. Dr. Shlomo Agon holds a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an LLM…
Matthias Goldmann
Matthias is a Junior Professor of International Public Law and Financial Law at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is an affiliate of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany; and of the Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders” at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is interested in the distinction…
Geoff Gordon
Geoff is a Senior Researcher in Public International Law at the T.M.C. Asser Institute in the Hague, and a former assistant professor in the Transnational Legal Studies Department at the Vrije Univeristeit Amsterdam, where he was Co-Director for the interdisciplinary master’s program, Law & Politics of International Security. He holds a JD from Columbia University,…
Poul F. Kjaer
Poul F. Kjaer is Professor at the Copenhagen Business School and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council Project ‘Institutional Transformation in European Political Economy – A Socio-legal Approach’ (ITEPE – www.itepe.eu). His research and teaching spans European integration and law, constitutional and legal theory, global governance and law and historical sociology of law. Core…
Ingo Venzke
Dr. Ingo Venzke is a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the functions, authority and legitimacy of international courts and tribunals as well as on a communicative theory of international lawmaking. His teaching includes courses on International Trade Law and International Dispute…
D.H. Augenstein
Daniel works as Associate Professor in the research group of legal philosophy in the Department of European and International Public Law at Tilburg Law School. His research interests are in the intersections of legal and political philosophy and European, international and global law, with particular focus on (business and) human rights. Recent key publications include:…
Elaine Mak
Elaine Mak is Professor of Jurisprudence at the Department of Law, Economics and Governance at Utrecht University (the Netherlands) since 1 June 2016. Previously, she held the Chair of Empirical Study of Public Law at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, where she was also Director of Erasmus Graduate School of Law. Her research combines legal theory,…
Stephen Samuel
Stephen is a member of Global Law at Reading (GLAR) with a research interest in international legal thought. Generally, Stephen’s research concerns universal characterisations of law, and the role such characterisations play in the practice of international law. More specifically, Stephen is interested in how these characterisations aid international lawyers’ approaches to understanding their professional roles,…
Paul Burgess
After a diverse career in a number of industries, and following a brief stint as a commercial litigator, Paul has returned to academia with a principal focus on the concept of the Rule of Law. Paul is now in the second year of his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, exploring the history of the…
Antje du Bois-Pedain
Faculty Profile: http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/du-bois-pedain/68
Hans Lindahl
Hans Lindahl holds the chair of legal philosophy at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He obtained law and philosophy degrees at the Universidad Javeriana, in Bogotá, Colombia, before taking a doctorate at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the University of Louvain (Belgium) in 1994. He has worked since at Tilburg University. His current research is…
Hugo Cyr
Hugo Cyr, LL.B., B.C.L. (McGill), LL.M. (Yale), LL.D. (U. de Montréal), is Dean and Professor of Public Law and Legal Theory at the Université du Québec à Montréal and a member of the Québec Bar. He is a member of the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité et la démocratie (CRIDAQ). He has been a Boulton…
Sanne Taekema
Sanne Taekema is Professor of Jurisprudence at Erasmus School of Law in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her work addresses varying themes in legal philosophy and methodology. Her research interests include the rule of law, especially in a transnational context, general issues of legal theory, particularly the role of values in jurisprudence and legal pragmatism, methodology of…
Pedro A. Villarreal
Pedro A. Villarreal (PhD, National Autonomous University of Mexico) is currently a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. His research interests include the intersection between public health and legal issues, particularly from an international and comparative perspective. The idea of authority as a possible…
Bram De Ridder
Bram De Ridder is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leuven (Belgium). In his current project he studies the legal and political aspects of territorial neutrality during early modern civil wars, questioning how such neutrality was created, enforced and perceived in times of dynastic and religious upheaval. He recently defended his Ph.D. titled ‘Lawful…
Kristin Henrard
Prof. Kristin Henrard is Professor of Fundamental Rights and Minorities at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (EUR) as well as Associate Professor of International and European law. She teaches courses on advanced public international law, international criminal law, human rights, and on minorities and fundamental rights. From February 2005 to May 2010 she worked on…