Thomas Adams is Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at St Hilda's College, Oxford. He currently teaches Jurisprudence for the college. In the past he has taught Administrative Law for St Hilda's, St Edmund Hall and Mansfield. Tom has also taught Constitutional Law for St Hilda's.

Prior to taking up his position as Lecturer in Law at St Hilda's Tom studied Law (BA, BCL) at St Peter's College, Oxford.

Michael Ashdown is Fellow and Tutor in law at Somerville College. He studied law in Cambridge and Oxford, and previously worked as a research assistant on property and trust law projects at the Law Commission. Mr Ashdown's research interests are principally in the law of trusts, in particular examining the consequences of the improper exercise of trustees' powers. He teaches tutorials in trusts, land law and Roman law.

Kerry Baker joined the Centre in December 1997 and has worked on a range of projects relating to probation and youth justice. In particular she has been involved in the development of Asset - the standard assessment tool now used by all Youth Offending Teams in England and Wales. In 2004 she completed a doctorate on 'Risk Assessment of Young Offenders'.

She is currently on secondment to the Youth Justice Board where she advises on policy developments relating to assessment, risk and public protection. She has also worked with youth justice services in Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, Bulgaria and Canada.

Francis Bennion MA 1951, Oxon, Barrister (MT) 1951, Gibbs Scholarship, Oxon 1948.

Research Associate, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies 1984- .

Formerly: Lecturer and Tutor, St Edmund Hall, 1951-53.

Ulf Bernitz is a regular visitor to the IECL. He is also course director of the Master of European Law course at Stockholm University and director of the Stockhom Institute of European Law.

Michal Bobek is Anglo-German Fellow in the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford Faculty of Law and member of St Edmund Hall. He studied law and international relations in Prague (Charles University, M.A. law; B.A international studies; M.A. international relations/European studies), Oxford (M. Jur.) and European University Institute in Florence (M. Res; Ph.D.), with further non-degree studies in Brussels (Université libre de Bruxelles) and Brisbane (University of Queensland). He also obtained Diploma in English and EU Law from the University of Cambridge. He qualified as a judge in the Czech Republic and previously worked as legal secretary to the Chief Justice and also as the head of the Research and Documentation Department at the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic.

Michal’s areas of interest include various aspects of European Union law, European human rights law, and comparative (public) law. In these areas, he has been lecturing not just to (university) students, but also to judges and legal practitioners in professional/continuing education, being inter alia external lecturer at both Slovak and Czech Judicial Academies. He is the author, co-author or editor of nine books, two academic commentaries and dozens of articles and case notes, published in Czech, English, French and German, with works translated also into Romanian, Polish and Russian. He co-founded and in 2007-2010 presided the Czech Society for European and Comparative Law (FIDE national association for the Czech Republic). Over the last years, he has been observing and occasionally got also involved in judicial and legal reform in the Czech Republic and elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe.

Andrew Burrows, MA, BCL, LLM (Harvard), QC (Hon), Barrister and Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple is is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls. Formerly: the Norton Rose Professor of Commercial Law, Fellow of St. Hugh's College. Honorary Director of the Oxford University Law Foundation.

Law Commissioner for England and Wales 1994-1999; Professor of English Law, University College, London 1994-1999; Fellow and CUF Lecturer in Law, Lady Margaret Hall, 1986-1994; Lecturer in Law, University of Manchester 1980-1986; Visiting Professor, Bond University 1994; Research Fellow, Australian National University 1994.

Judicial Studies Board; Civil Committee of the Judicial Studies Board; Recorder on the South-Eastern Circuit; Member of the Ogden Working Party; Door Tenant of Fountain Court Chambers, London.

Ross completed his undergraduate degree in Law (LLB (Hons)) at the University of Edinburgh in 2007, following which he completed a Masters by Research degree at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Social and Political Science in 2008. Since then, he has been completing a doctoral thesis on the procedural democratic legitimacy of the Court of Justice of the European Union at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Law – being supervised by Professor Neil Walker and Professor Niamh Nic Shuibhne. Presently, having completed a first draft of his doctoral thesis, he is in the process of editing. Between 2008 and 2011, Ross was tutoring on undergraduate courses at the University of Edinburgh in Jurisprudence, Public Law of the UK and Scotland, and Legal System and Legal Reasoning. He also taught on the LLM course EU Constitutional Law. Ross has recently been appointed as a fixed-term lecturer in EU Law and Constitutional Law at the University of Oxford, Worcester College.

Marianne Colbran holds a Howard League/Oxford Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Before coming to the Centre she submitted a Ph.D in October 2011 entitled 'Watching the Detectives: A case study of production processes on 'The Bill' which explores how changing working processes, constraints of the medium and changing commercial imperatives all had an effect on representations of the police and policing on the show over its twenty-six year history. She studied for her PhD at the LSE. Before this, she worked as an actress and television scriptwriter, including seven years as a staff writer on The Bill.

Jennifer Collins is lecturer in law at St Peter's College, having previously lectured at Hertford College. Jennifer read for a BA and a BCL at Oxford, and received her degrees in 2008 and 2009 respectively . Her principal teaching and research interests are in criminal law, legal theory and public law. Her current DPhil work focuses on theoretical issues in the criminal law.

B.C.L., (N.U.I.), LL.M. (Bruges), B.L. (Honorable Society of King's Inns) is a fellow of Worcester College. She tutors Constitutional and EU law and also teaches parts of the BCL European Employment and Equality Law course. From 1998-2003 she was Lecturer in European Law at the Law School, Trinity College Dublin. From 2000-2003, she also held the position of Director of the Irish Centre for European Law. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of San Francisco and from January to May 2006 was a visiting research fellow at NYU School of Law. She has assisted a number of NGOs in the immigration and asylum fields, and was a member of the Board of the Irish Refugee Council and the Steering Committee of the Immigrant Council of Ireland. She is currently on ILPA's (Immigration Law Practitioners' Association) European Group. She specialises in EU law, and has completed a DPhil on EU immigration and asylum law.  She also writes on EU constitutional and equality law.

Eric Descheemaeker came to Oxford in 2001 to read for the D.Phil. His thesis was concerned with structural issues within the law of civil wrongs in the Romanist tradition and the common law; it was published as a book under the title The Division of Wrongs (OUP, 2009). From 2004 to 2009, he was a teaching fellow of St Catherine's College; and since 2009 has been a research fellow of the Institute of European and Comparative Law, for which he organises the annual French Law Moot. He is now Lecturer in European Private Law at the University of Edinburgh.

Thomas Dietz is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford and a member of Wolfson College. Thomas holds an MA in political science from the University of Bonn and a PhD in law from the University of Bremen. Before coming to Oxford he worked as a research associate at the Collaborative Research Center 597 “Transformations of the State” at the University of Bremen. Thomas has varied interests within the field of global economic governance and transnational law. In his research he combines socio-legal and economic approaches in order to explore the emergence of new forms of cross-border contract enforcement institutions within processes of globalised exchange. He focuses in particular on the significance of state enforced contract law and private order institutions as the institutional basis for global market exchange. Thomas conducted more than 70 expert interviews in the software industry in countries like India, Bulgaria, Romania and Germany.

Janina Dill's research focuses on moral agency and individual legal responsibility in combat operations. She investigates the technological and legal context of the crime of unlawful attack. Do the choices that individual agents at different levels of the chain of command face match the assumptions about moral agency underlying the law that criminalizes unlawful attack?

She is also currently turning her her DPhil thesis entitled ‘The definition of a legitimate target in US air warfare: A normative enquiry into the effectiveness of international law in regulating combat operations’ into a book. The project investigates whether combat can be meaningfully regulated by International Law, using an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on Law, Jurisprudence and International Relations.

Janina has previously worked on the emergence and demise of states in International Law and the legal and political challenges associated with state failure and self-determination. She teaches International Relations and International Humanitarian Law.

Dr Jane Donoghue joined the Centre for Criminology in August 2010. She previously worked as lecturer in law at the School of Law at the University of Reading and is the author of 'Anti-Social Behaviour Orders: A Culture of Control?' (Palgrave, 2010). As Principal Investigator, she recently completed an 18 month ESRC funded study of the judicial role in anti-social behaviour cases before the courts in England and Wales. She is currently researching and writing about court specialisation and therapeutic jurisprudence and is also involved in collaborative research on co-production. Dr Donoghue teaches Criminology and Criminal Justice (FHS); Research Design and Data Collection (MSc); Youth Justice (MSc); and Academic Writing Skills (MSc/DPhil).

Dr Donoghue is a member of the Oxford Pro Bono Publico (OPBP) executive committee and is currently involved in a project on the death penalty in India.

For further information about current OPBP projects, please visit: http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/themes/opbp/

Dr Nancy Eisenhauer's main research interest is in international law, including public international law and international dispute resolution. Serves as a private consultant to States and other entities involved in international commercial arbitration and/or investor-State arbitration. Nancy Eisenhauer specialises in public international law and international dispute resolution and, when not teaching, acts as a private legal consultant in primarily investor-State, treaty-based arbitrations. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago and its Law School, where she served as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow immediately upon graduation. More recently, she served as an Attorney-Adviser for the U.S. Department of State. Prior to joining the State Department, she practised domestic and international litigation and arbitration at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

David Erdos is a legal researcher and political scientist whose work principally examines privacy and data protection laws. He especially explores how these laws, and associated practices, relate to other important constitutional and societal values including freedom of expression and information. He is funded by the Leverhulme Trust under its Early Career Research Award Scheme. David's published work focuses on explaining Bill of Rights outcomes in the Westminster world (the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia). This work looks both at the immediate triggers behind Bill of Rights adoption and on possible longer-term relationships between such projects and neoliberalism, social heterogeneity and 'postmaterialization'. His monograph on this topic, Delegating Rights Protection, was published by Oxford University Press August 2010. David's new project looks at the origins and development of privacy/data protection law and practices including, in particular, how these relates to, and may conflict with other important societal values such as freedom of expression and freedom of information. In the Hilary Term of 2009, David convened a CSLS seminar series on "Human Investigation and Privacy in a Regulatory Age" which began looking into some of these issues. Following on from this, David has now begun a new three-year Data Protection and Open Society (DPOS) project which examines these issues in more depth. For more information on this project please see http://www.csls.ox.ac.uk/dataprotection. David has presented his research at a number of academic conferences not only in the UK but also in North America and Australasia. Recent papers given include those at the 2010 annual conference of the Political Science Association (UK), 2009 Biannual Conference of the Australian Bar Association, 2008 annual conference of the New Zealand Political Science Association, 2007 annual conferences of the Socio-Legal Studies Association (UK), Political Studies Association (UK), American Political Science Association, Canadian Political Science Association and 2006 annual conference of the Australasian Political Science Association.

Core research interests

• Data Protection Laws and Practices
• Freedom of Information
• Freedom of Expression
• Bills of Rights
• Constitutional development of the UK and other Westminster/Commonwealth countries

Core teaching and supervision interests

• Comparative constitutional design
• Nature and future of UK constitution (and other Westminster/Commonwealth countries)
• Judicialization (especially in human rights field)
• Political science approaches to studying the law

Previous positions

Dr Rob George read for his BA in Jurisprudence and MSc in Comparative Social Policy at Trinity College, Oxford, before moving to Lincoln College, Oxford, for his DPhil in Family Law. After five years as a Lecturer at Jesus College (including a year as the College's Senior Law Tutor), he now holds a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, based at University College.

During his British Academy Fellowship, Dr George will be focused on a project entitled "The Realities of Relocation: Analysing Disputes Over Post-Separation Family Migration in the English Trial Courts". This work will continue Dr George's research into legal disputes that arise between separated parents when one proposes moving to a new location with their child. Although these cases are increasingly common, very little is known about their everyday reality in England becuase almost all the information presently available is based on a tiny sample of cases which reach the Court of Appeal. To find out more about cases which are not heard on appeal, Dr George will examine transcripts of judgments from trial courts and will interview litigants involved in relocation disputes. This project contributes to an increasing global debate over the law's regulation of post-separation families in the migration context, and in particular aims to add further information about the English law's position to the international picture.

More generally, Dr George's research interests are in child and family law, broadly conceived, with a particular emphasis on international and comparative aspects of the law and its practice. Dr George has strong links with practising lawyers, including being an Associate Member of Harcourt Chambers. He is regularly consulted by practitioners about aspects of the law, and his work has been cited in the Supreme Court (Radmacher v Granatino [2010] UKSC 42). Dr George is an active member of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy, a member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association and of the Society of Legal Scholars, and works as Case Notes Editor of the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law.

Professor Guy S. Goodwin Gill is also Professor of International Refugee Law, was formerly Professor of Asylum Law at the University of Amsterdam, and served as a Legal Adviser in the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from 1976-1988. He practises as a Barrister from Blackstone Chambers, London, and he has written extensively on refugees, migration, international organizations, elections, democratization, and child soldiers; Recent publications include/ The Refugee in International Law/, (OUP, 2007), 3rd edn. with Dr Jane McAdam; /Free and Fair Elections/, (Inter-Parliamentary Union, 2nd edn., 2006); /Basic Documents on Human Rights/, (OUP, 2006), 5th edn., with Ian Brownlie, eds.

BA (Hons I); LLB (Hons I) (Queensland); BCL (Dist) (Oxon); Rhodes Scholar (Queensland & Lincoln College 2007); Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of Queensland (2007).

Undergraduate teaching: Constitutional Law; Administrative Law 
Postgraduate teaching: Criminal Justice & Human Rights (BCL/MJur).  

Current doctoral research title: 'Rethinking Article 6: Strasbourg's criminal fair trial case law'. Other research projects in other areas of public law and national security law.  

See also Lincoln College website.

Noam Gur is a Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law at Lincoln College. Before joining Lincoln he read law at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he graduated with a BCL, MPhil and DPhil. He obtained his first degree in law (LLB) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He teaches jurisprudence and tort law, and engages in research in jurisprudence. He also heads an academic outreach programme to Singapore, as part of which he advises schools and colleges on opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate study at Oxford. His research focuses on jurisprudential topics such as the normativity of law, law's operation in practical reason, the obligation to obey the law, the concept of authority and its sources of legitimacy.

Nicholas Hatzis is Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall and a Senior Lecturer at City University London. Previously he was Référendaire in the chambers of Advocate General Maduro at the European Court of Justice. His interests are in public law, torts, EU law, civil procedure and media law.

Geneviève Helleringer joined the IECL from the University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne. From October 2009, Dr Helleringer will spend two years at the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law where she will work on a topic on comparative contract law and European legal culture.

Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at Merton College, as well as a DPhil candidate in international law and teaches trusts law in my capacity as a lecturer. He did an undergraduate law degree at the London School of Economics and then came to Oxford for the BCL, MPhil and now DPhil. He is also co-convenor of the Oxford Public International Law Discussion Group.

Hayley Hooper is working on the AHRC project: 'Parliaments and Human Rights', and is Lecturer at Trinity College, and a DPhil student at Balliol College.

Birke Häcker is a Fifty-Pound Fellow of All Souls College where she was previously an Examination Fellow (from 2001 to 2008). In 2007/08 she taught as a Stipendiary Lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall. She now works in Munich as a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance and holds a Lectureship at the Law Faculty of Munich's Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.

Jane Kaye is Director of the Centre for Law, Health and Emerging Technologies at Oxford: (HeLEX) based in the Department of Public Health at the University of Oxford. She obtained her degrees from the Australian National University (BA); University of Melbourne (LLB); and University of Oxford (DPhil). She was admitted to practice as a solicitor/barrister in 1997. She is advisor to a number of F7 projects and on the Sample and Ethics Committee of the 1000 Genomes Project; International Scientific Advisory Board Canadians for Tomorrow Project; UK10K Ethics Advisory Group and Chair of the CARTaGENE International Scientific Advisory Board, Canada. She is also on the editorial boards of Law, Innovation and Technology, Journal of Law and Information Science, and Genomics, Policy and Society.

Her research involves investigating the relationships between law, ethics, and practice in the area of emerging technologies in health. The main focus is on genomics with an emphasis on biobanks, privacy, data-sharing frameworks, global governance and translational research. Her full profile is available at http://helex.medsci.ox.ac.uk/

Tarun Khaitan is the Penningtons Student in Law at Christ Church and a Visiting Fellow at the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. He is also one of the faculty members on the Executive Committee of the Oxford Pro Bono Publico. He completed his undergraduate studies (BA LLB Hons) at the National Law School (Bangalore) between 1999-2004. He then came to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and completed his postgraduate studies (BCL with distinction, MPhil with distinction, DPhil) at Exeter College. Before joining Christ Church, he has served as the Lecturer in Law at Queen's College and St Hilda’s College. 

Tarun is currently working on a monograph entitled 'Autonomy, Discrimination and the Law'.

Matthias Klatt joined New College as a Junior Research Fellow in October 2005. He concurrently holds an Emmy Noether Research Fellowship by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Previously, he had been a law clerk at the German Federal Constitutional Court (Karlsruhe), after completing his legal education in Goettingen, Munich, Kiel, and Duesseldorf. He has also served as research and teaching assistant at the Chair for Public Law and Legal Philosophy, University of Kiel. His doctoral thesis addressed questions on the theory of legal argumentation. He is a member of the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and has taught in various places abroad.

Beatrice Krebs studied law at the University of Münster, graduating in 2004 with the First State Exam (Erstes Juristisches Staatsexamen). In 2007, she obtained a BA in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford, followed by an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, New York, in 2008 (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar).

Before taking up her current position at St Hilda’s, she was Graduate Lecturer in Law at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. She is also a Visiting Lecturer at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg.

Her doctoral thesis, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, focuses on homicide and joint criminal enterprise liability in English and German law. Her research interests include white collar crime and comparative and international criminal law. At St Hilda’s, she teaches criminal law, tort and contract.

Marina Kurkchiyan joined the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in 1999 as the Peter North Fellow and Research Fellow of Keble College. In 2001 she was appointed Centre Research Fellow. From 2003 she was Paul Dodyk Fellow and Research Fellow of Wolfson College and took up her present position in 2007.

Dr Kurkchiyan is a sociologist who specialises in legal culture and the impact of public policy on social structure and human behaviour. She has conducted research in many countries including Ukraine, Russia and the regions bordering on the Black Sea and the Caspian. As a consultant to the World Bank, the DfID, the Open Society Institute and the UNDP she has completed a number of official reports on the interaction between law and society in relation to development. Her academic papers have appeared in several languages and have dealt with the socio-legal aspects of education, poverty relief, the informal economy, respect for law and health care. Her current research examines the transplanting of legal institutions from the West into Post-Communist societies, particularly the efforts made in Russia since 2000 to create voluntary councils for media outlets that would enable newspapers, TV and radio to regulate themselves and thereby avoid censorship, litigation and intimidation.

Maris Köpcke Tinturé teaches Jurisprudence and Criminal Law for Worcester and Brasenose Colleges. In 2009 she completed a D.Phil. at University College Oxford on legal validity and law's moral claim, supervised by Prof. John Finnis and Prof. John Gardner. She's interested in most areas of legal philosophy and criminal law theory, and further interested in Roman Law and the organization of certain fundamental legal categories in civil and common law jurisdictions. She's also working on the emerging idea of 'bullying'.

Prior to coming to Oxford, Maris studied Law at ESADE (Barcelona), and read for LL.M.s at the European Academy of Legal Theory (Brussels) and Harvard Law School (Cambridge, MA).

At Oxford, Maris had been Graduate Teaching Assistant in Jurisprudence (2005-06) and co-convener of the Jurisprudence Discussion Group (2005-09).

Nicola Lacey holds a Senior Research Fellowship at All Souls College. She moved to Oxford in October 2010, having held a chair in Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the London School of Economics since 1998. Before that, she was Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London (1995 to 1997); Fellow and Tutor in Law at New College and CUF Lecturer at Oxford (1984 to 1995); and Lecturer in Laws at University College, London (1981 to 1984). She has held visiting appointments at the Humboldt University in Berlin, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, New York University, Yale and Harvard. She is an Honorary Fellow of New College and of University College, and a Fellow of the British Academy. 

In December 2011 she was awarded the Hans Sigrist Prize by the University of Bern: http://www.diesacademicus.unibe.ch/content/diesacademicus2011/preise/index_ger.html

Nicola's research is in criminal law and criminal justice, with a particular focus on comparative and historical scholarship. Over the last few years, she has been working on the development of ideas of criminal responsibility in England since the 18th Century, and on the comparative political economy of punishment. Her next project will be a comparative study combining analysis of penal policies with analysis of practices of legal responsibility-attribution in selected areas of criminalisation, framing these issues within a broad comparative political economy of crime and control. Nicola also has research interests in legal and social theory, in feminist analysis of law, in law and literature, and in biography.

Dr Dorota Leczykiewicz is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Law, and a Research Fellow in the Insitute of European and Comparative Law of the University of Oxford. She is also a Junior Research Fellow in Law in Trinity College, where she teaches Tort, Roman law and EU law.  In 2009 she completed a DPhil thesis at the University of Oxford, under supervision of Professor Simon Whittaker, in which she examined and compared the reasoning of French and English judges on the question of recoverability of harm in their respective tort laws. A book based on her DPhil thesis is forthcoming with Hart Publishing.  In 2007-2009 she held the position of a Stipendiary College Lecturer in Law at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. In 2009-2010 she was a Max Weber Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. She is one of the convenors of the Oxford EU Law Discussion Group. Her research interests lie in comparative private law, Tort law and EU law, within which she specialises in the law of remedies, horizontal application of EU norms and codification of EU private law. Her new project concerns the principles which govern applicability of EU norms against individuals.

Ambrose Lee is a political philosopher, working with Professors Andrew Ashworth and Lucia Zedner on the AHRC-funded project ‘Preventive Justice’, which looks at what principles and values should guide and limit preventive action taken by states, and in particular when and in what ways states can and should use the criminal law and criminal law-like instruments as a preventive measure. He is a Research Associate at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and also a guest lecturer for the Division of Law and Philosophy at University of Stirling in Spring 2012 semester lecturing undergraduate jurisprudence.

After completing his BA (Philosophy) at University of Hong Kong in 2006, Ambrose went all the way to Scotland to study for his MLitt in Philosophy with the St Andrews / Stirling Graduate Programme (SASP). Upon completion, he joined the Department of Philosophy at University of Stirling to read for his PhD, which he obtained in 2011 with a doctoral thesis titled "Duties of Minimal Wellbeing and Their Role in Global Justice". Before he joined the law faculty, Ambrose was a lecturer in the Division of Law and Philosophy at University of Stirling lecturing undergraduate metaethics.

Ambrose’s research interests mainly lie in theories of distributive justice, in particular global distributive justice. His doctoral thesis argued for two sets of duties of global justice. On the one hand, there are associative duties of fairness and equality, which are derived from the conception of cooperation at hand. On the other hand, there are universal duties of minimal wellbeing, whose function is to secure a human life for all individuals. The objects of this latter set of duties are developed from a Razian conception of wellbeing.

Besides political philosophy, Ambrose also has a keen interest in metaethics, legal philosophy and moral philosophy. In particular, he is interested in the following issues: value incommensurability, the nature of goodness, the nature of respect, justification of legal punishment, the nature of law, criteria for criminalization, the nature of wellbeing, and its relationship with morality.

When not doing Philosophy, Ambrose likes to scale up rock faces and driving around visiting places.

Henry Mares is a lecturer at University College where he teaches criminal law and jurisprudence. His research is on the history of English criminal law, and with Joshua Getzler he convenes the Oxford Legal History Forum.

Caroline Miles is a Research Officer in the Centre for Criminology, working with Dr Rachel Condry on an ESRC-funded project investigating adolescent violence towards parents. She was previously a Lecturer in Criminology and Programme leader for the MA Crime and Justice at the University of Chester, having completed her ESRC-funded PhD at the University of Manchester in 2008. Caroline’s thesis examined substance-related homicide (involving intoxication or systemic circumstances) in England and Wales; drawing upon data from the Homicide Index, police files for solved homicide cases and interviews with convicted homicide offenders.

Prior to her PhD Caroline worked as a Research Assistant for the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness and as a Resettlement Officer for Nacro. She obtained her LLB Honours (first class) degree in Law and Criminology and ESRC-funded MA in Criminology and Research Methods (distinction) from Keele University.

Kai Moller studied law at the Universities of Freiburg (First State Exam 1999; Ph.D. 2003) and Oxford (M.Jur. 2001; M.Phil. 2003). He is also a qualified barrister (Rechtsanwalt) in Germany (Second State Exam, Berlin 2005). In 2005, Kai returned to Oxford on a postdoctoral research fellowship of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation to work on a second doctorate/book, before taking up the post as Junior Research Fellow in Law at Lincoln College in October 2007.

His main area of interest is constitutional rights theory, combining constitutional law doctrines, comparative materials, and elements of moral and political philosophy in order to develop a general, substantive moral theory of constitutional rights. This starts from the observation that in recent decades, constitutions and constitutional courts around the world have employed strikingly similar approaches to constitutional rights law. On the one hand, there is a trend towards an extremely wide protection of (prima facie) constitutional rights ? including a right to privacy, horizontal effect of constitutional rights, protective duties, and, increasingly, socio-economic rights. On the other hand, courts employ a balancing or proportionality approach to determine the limits of these rights.The constitutional texts, doctrines, and the case law can be reconstructed as one coherent model of constitutional rights, and this model connects to an attractive philosophical account of constitutional rights and judicial review.

Emeric Monfront is working with Professor Joshua Getzler on a new research project, translating and transcribing papers from the Lord Eldon archive.

Violeta Moreno Lax graduated from the University of Murcia (Spain) with a first class degree in Law. She earned an MA in European Studies from the College of Europe and a Certificate in EU Law on Immigration and Asylum from the Free University of Brussels. She is currently completing her PhD at the University of Louvain.

Before coming to Oxford, Violeta taught EU law at the College of Europe; human rights law at the University of Louvain; and refugee law at the University of Nijmegen. She has also worked as a consultant for the European Parliament and the European Commission, and has acted as a legal expert for a number of governmental and non-governmental organisations active in the area of asylum and human rights. Violeta is a Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre since October 2010. She joined the Oxford Law Faculty in October 2011, as a Lecturer of St Hilda’s College.

Violeta has been awarded a Research Fellowship by Fundación Rafael del Pino to conduct research in the field of migration. Her current work focuses on the interface between border control and refugee protection under EU and international law, taking into account the impact of the extraterritorial applicability of human rights norms.

Nicola Palmer is the Junior Research Fellow in Global Justice at St Anne's College and convenor of Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR), an inter-disciplinary network of University staff and students working on issues of transition in societies recovering from mass conflict and/or repressive rule. Her current research focuses on criminal justice in post-genocide Rwanda, examining the interactions among international, national and localised criminal courts. She was an American Society for International Law Helton Fellow in 2009 and was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship in 2007. She completed her undergraduate and honours degrees in law and economics at Rhodes University, South Africa.

Elaine Palser MA (Cantab) MA (Oxon) BBusSc (Hons) (Cape Town) is a Lecturer in Law at Exeter College, teaching Trusts, Tort and Land Law. She is also a barrister whose practice encompasses a broad range of commercial and chancery work.

Irini Papanicolopulu is engaged in a research project on integrating the human element into the law of the sea aiming to highlight legal gaps in law of the sea instruments relating to the treatment reserved to individuals and groups of people at sea, being therein either voluntarily or not, to explore mechanism for adapting the existing instruments to a more human-oriented approach and to consider how law of the sea rules could be used in order to provide for a stronger protection of individuals at sea.
Irini has also the post of Senior Researcher in international law at the University of Milano-Bicocca (on leave), where she has been teaching international law of natural resources, international law of armed conflicts and international law cases.
She holds a Degree in Law from the same university and a Doctorate in International Law from the University of Milano. Her research interests include public international law, the law of the sea, environmental law and IHL.
She has published a volume on maritime delimitation (in Italian) and several articles, book chapters and conference papers.
She has acted as legal expert for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Ministry of the Environment and the Secretariat of ACCOBAMS.

Martins Paparinskis, LLB (University of Latvia), MJur (Dist, Clifford Chance Prize), MPhil (Dist), DPhil, MA (Oxon), is a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College. He was recently a Hauser Research Scholar at the New York University (2009-2010), and before that tutored as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Oxford. Martins has varied research interests in the field of general international law. His recent and forthcoming publications mainly address the place of investment protection law and international economic law in the international legal order. 

Cristina Parau is currently working on research projects funded by the British Academy and John Fell Fund (Oxford) investigate the trajectory taken by judicial reform in post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe and whether the EU is changing (or not) legal mentalities in this region. In addition she is exploring several other research ideas, namely: (1) how judicial independence has evolved in practice in post-Communist Europe after 1989; and (2) what are the informal institutions that contribute to the independence of the judiciary in the West, but are missing in Eastern Europe. Her previous research investigated the influence of the EU on State-civil society relations in an accession candidate of Central and Eastern Europe (Romania), and proposed a novel mechanism — the exploitation of accession uncertainty by transnational networks — that explains the puzzling variability in actual influence wielded by the EU over post-Communist candidate governments. Methodologically, she has an interest in combining constructivist and soft rational choice frameworks.

Previous positions

• Researcher, Government Department, LSE
• Researcher, Centre for the Study of Democracy, Westminster University
• Researcher, Politics Department, Queen Mary University of London

Grants

• £6,700 from the British Academy to research the Europeanization of Legal Mentalities in Eastern Europe (April 2010)
• £3,250 from the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford to carry out pilot research on judicial reform in Croatia and the Czech Republic under the project 'Beyond Judicial Independence: What Kind of Judiciary is Emerging in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe?' (December 2009)
• £750 from the Law Department, University of Oxford to attend the American Political Science Association Conference (May 2009)
• £300 from Wolfson College’s Research Fund to attend the Political Science Association Conference in Manchester (February 2009)
• £245,538 from the British Academy to investigate judicial independence in post-Communist Eastern Europe (July 2007)
• £3,000 under the Erasmus Programme to attend, as a Visiting Fellow, the European University Institute in Florence (2005)
• Grants and scholarships towards my PhD amounting to £1,500 to £3,000 each: Teaching Studentship, LSE (2004); Ratiu Family Foundation Grant (2004, 2006); Central Research Fund Award, University of London (2003); Departmental Research Scholarship, LSE (2002, 2003).

Publications in preparation

• ‘Transnational Influence over Judicial Reform in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe’ (article)
• ‘Independence or Supremacism? Judicial Reform in Post-Communist Eastern Europe’ (book chapter)
• Transnational Networks and Judicial Reform in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe (monograph)

Jeremias Prassl read Jurisprudence Course II at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas). He obtained an LL.M. at Harvard Law School, where he held an RF Lewis International Legal Studies Fellowship and was awarded the Mancini Prize in 2009 before returning to work on his doctorate at Magdalen College, Oxford with the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Jeremias has been an Academic Scholar at UBS Investment Bank, a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Private Law in Hamburg and is a member of PEPP, the Programme in European Private Law for Postgraduates. Prior to his present appointment, he served as a Stipendiary Lecturer at Jesus College, Oxford (2010-11).

Jeremias’ current research focuses on the Alternative Fund Management Industry, specifically Private Equity firms in the United Kingdom and continental Europe, looking at the implications of close shareholder involvement for traditional notions of the employer from a Company and Employment law perspective. He is also interested in Corporate Law and Finance and European Union Law, especially as regards its application to overseas territories.

Oliver Radley-Gardner is a Teaching Fellow at Pembroke College.

Bandar Salman is a specialist in International Law. He was appointed to the ICC International Court of Arbitration in 2004 and is a member of several international legal bodies.

Sharon Shalev, LLM, Ph.D., is a Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and an Associate of the International Centre for Prison Studies. Her research interests include the design, management and regime in high security prisons on both sides of the Atlantic, human rights and prisons, and medical ethics in prison. Over the past 15 years Sharon’s key research interest has been the use of solitary confinement in prisons- in particular the American ‘supermax’ prisons, and she has authored various publications on the subject, including the Sourcebook on Solitary Confinement, a practitioner’s guide to the health effects of solitary confinement and to human rights and professional standards relating to its use. Her book, ‘Supermax: controlling risk through solitary confinement’ (Willan, 2009) has been awarded the British Society of Criminology’s Book Prize for 2010.

Alison Slade is completing a DPhil at St Peters

Colin Tapper MA 1965. BCL 1959, Oxon; Vinerian Schol, 1959., Barrister (GI) 1961. Fellow, Magdalen College, 1965~, All Souls Reader in Law, 1979- .

Formerly: Assistant Lecturer, 1959-62; Lecturer 1962-65, LSE.

Jure Vidmar (MA, LLM, Dr phil, PhD) is an Anglo-German Fellow in the Institute of European and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law. His main research and teaching interests lie within public international law, human rights, European law, and political theory. In recent years, Jure’s publications have mainly covered topics such as the creation, recognition and delimitation of states; human rights and democracy; the right of self-determination; the right to political participation; norm conflicts and hierarchy in international law; international constitutionalism and democratisation theory. He recently co-edited (together with Erika de Wet) a book entitled 'Hierarchy in International Law: The Place of Human Rights' (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2012). Jure is currently working on a monograph entitled 'Democracy and the International Law of Statehood: The Emergence of New States in Post-Cold War Practice'. Jure is also an editor of the Hague Yearbook of International Law.

Christopher Whelan is Associate Director of International Law Programmes at the University's Department for Continuing Education. Before that he was Senior Lecturer in law at the University of Warwick and Research Associate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. During spring 2005, he is 'Scholar-in-Residence' at Washington & Lee Law School. He is also a practising barrister (specialising in employment) law at 3 Paper Buildings, Temple.

Paul Yowell is working on the AHRC project: Parliaments and Human Rights.

Dr Rafal Zakrzewski's research focuses on finance law and commercial remedies (jointly and severally).  He is particularly concerned with all aspects of English law relating to corporate lending and security, especially in an international or cross-border context.  More broadly, he expresses an interest in most matters of legal principle closely connected with private practice.

Rafal teaches principally in the areas of contract, torts, trusts and corporate finance. 

He first studied law at the University of Queensland.  He pursued his doctoral studies at Oxford University.  His doctorate examined the concept of a legal remedy in private law.  It was subsequently published as 'Remedies Reclassified' (OUP, Oxford, 2005).  He has also written on the rescission of contracts, acquisition finance, and aspects of commercial and corporate law.

As a solicitor he practised law for many years with leading global firms in Australia, London and Warsaw. He is a veteran of a good many financings, joint ventures and acquisitions.  He also has some experience in legislative drafting.  

Additional information is to be found on his web page on the St Hugh's College website.