Welcome to the Bonavero Institute's Research Visitors for Hilary Term 2026
The Bonavero Institute is delighted to welcome this term’s research visitors: Elizabeth Brumby, Neil Hicks, and Aikaterini [Katerina] Tsampi. Their research work varies widely across the field of human rights law from constitutional jurisprudence to constitutional theory. While with us, they will explore their areas of interest through focused and self-directed research.
The Research Visitor Programme at the Bonavero Institute encourages mid-career and senior scholars, judges, practitioners, post-doctoral researchers and policymakers engaged in the field of human rights law to visit the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights.
If you are interested in joining the Bonavero Institute as a research visitor, please find more information about the application process here.
Elizabeth Brumby
Elizabeth Brumby is a barrister at the Victorian Bar in Melbourne, Australia. During her time as a Research Visitor at the Institute, Elizabeth will explore the evolving judicial treatment of executive or legislative ‘punishment’ in constitutional jurisprudence across common law jurisdictions, including as a means of protecting human rights in jurisdictions such as Australia, which lacks specifically enshrined constitutional rights or a legislated national bill of rights.
Neil Hicks
Neil Hicks has been a human rights practitioner with leading international and regional human rights organizations for over 40 years, beginning with Amnesty International in London in 1985 and then in New York with the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights/Human Rights First. While visiting the Institute his research will focus on the current crisis in human rights implementation, reflecting particularly on the experiences of local, regional and international practitioners working on promoting and protecting human rights in the Middle East and North Africa.
Aikaterini (Katerina) Tsampi
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Aikaterini (Katerina) Tsampi: Aikaterini (Katerina) Tsampi is Assistant Professor of International Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Groningen (Department of Transboundary Legal Studies). While in residence at the Bonavero Institute, Dr. Tsampi will explore the intersection of gender and political oppression, within the project “Women political dissenters: going beyond the text of European human rights rulings”, funded by Dutch Research Council (NWO) through a personal grant.