Members
Christiane von Bary
Christiane is a lecturer and senior research fellow at LMU Munich, Germany. Her research focuses on family law and often includes an international or comparative perspective. In particular, she is interested in autonomy in family law and which role it plays in an increasingly diverse society.
Katarzyna Bogdzevicz
Katarzyna is a full professor at the School of Law at Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius (Lithuania) with a particular focus on private international law and human rights. She is particularly interested in the recognition of family relations and minority rights.
Konrad Duden
Konrad is a full professor of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the University of Hamburg with a particular focus on international and comparative family law. He is particularly interested in the recognition of rare family forms and gender identities as well as obstacles to their recognition in different jurisdictions.
Elise Goossens
Elise is an assistant professor of Civil law in context at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). Her research covers (the intersections of) family law, succession law, and law and gender. She employs comparative, theoretical, and law-in-context approaches.
Martin Kornel
Martin Kornel is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia, where he teaches family and civil law. His research focuses on gender equality, unmarried relationships, matrimonial property, parenthood, inheritance, and children's rights.
Dafni Lima
Dafni is an Assistant Professor in Law at Durham Law School, where she teaches and researches in family law and human rights, often from a comparative perspective. Her research focuses on comparative family law, parenthood, assisted reproduction, and cross-border recognition of families, with a particular interest in interdisciplinary research.
José Maria Lorenzo Villaverde
José M Lorenzo Villaverde is a distinguished professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela and he also holds a PhD in law from the University of Copenhagen. He is interested in international and comparative family law. In particular, he has delved into decentralized jurisdictions, constitutional framework and internal conflicts of laws, Danish/Nordic law, Spanish law and LGBT+ rights.
Alice Margaria
Alice is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Co-Director of the URPP Human Reproduction Reloaded at the University of Zurich. Her research lies at the intersections of family law, legal gender studies, human rights law, and law and anthropology. She is particularly interested in exploring the impact of ART on parenthood and non-traditional families’ experiences with the law.
Onyoja Momoh
Onyoja Momoh is a barrister (Eng. & Wales) and lecturer in Private International Law at the University of Aberdeen. She specialises in the protection of children in cross-border contexts and has published widely on international family law. Her work addresses gender equality and children's rights, with contributions to leading projects, reported cases, and global training initiatives – with a focus on Africa.
Sanna Mustasaari
(c) Niko Jouhkimainen/ UEF
Sanna is Associate Professor of Family and Inheritance Law and Director of the Center of Law and Welfare at the University of Eastern Finland. Her research explores transnational families, childhood, care, gender, and cultural and religious diversity. She combines doctrinal and socio-legal approaches to examine legal phenomena in diverse social contexts.
Nausica Palazzo
Nausica is an Associate Professor of Public Law at NOVA School of Law in Lisbon and the Director of the NOVA Centre for the Study of Gender, Family and the Law. Her research interests include the recognition of non-normative families, such as non-conjugal unions of friends and relatives, and the appeal of registered partnerships for less traditional families, and the ideological usage of the family in illiberal contexts.
Marco Poli
Marco is a postdoctoral researcher in Private Law at the University of Turin and a lecturer in Private and Family Law at the University of Eastern Piedmont. His research focuses on the recognition and regulation of parenthood, with particular interests in family law and children's rights examined through socio-legal and gender perspectives.
Eniana Qarri
Eniana Qarri is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Tirana, since 2008. She teaches the courses of Family Law and European and Comparative Family Law. Her research areas are family and marriage in national, European, international and comparative law, succession law and marriage and family in private international law.
Pablo Quinzá Redondo
Pablo is Associate Professor of Private International Law at the University of Valencia. He teaches Private international Law in the Law Degree as well as Legal Methodology in the Master of Law, Business and Justice at the University of Valencia. His research primarily focuses on the property regimes of marriages and other legal unions, as well as the conflict-of-laws problems arising in multi-unit states, with particular emphasis on family and succession law.
Konstantinos Rokas
Konstantinos is assistant professor of private international law and of law of international transactions at the faculty of law of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research interests include international family law with a special focus on the law of Artificial Reproductive Techniques (ART).
Laima Vaigè
(c) Juliana Lozovska
Laima is a Senior Lecturer and Docent (Associate Professor) in Private International Law at Uppsala University. Her research interests include gender from the perspective of private international law, the protection of vulnerabilities in cross-border situations, international succession law, and processes of democratization and autocratization in transnational and comparative contexts.
Caroline Voithofer
(c) Universität Insbruck
Caroline is an assistant professor of Legal Theory at the University of Innsbruck with a particular focus on Legal Theory, Legal Gender Studies, Legal Disability Studies and Civil Law with a focus on Family Law. She is particularly interested in the transformation of society towards gender equality via (family) law.
Tone Linn Wærstad
Tone Linn Wærstad is a professor at the University of Oslo, Department of Private Law. Her research focuses on human rights law, private international law and consumer protection law in the family law area. She is Director of the University of Oslo, Faculty of Law’s Centre for Excellence in Education, CELL.
Denise Wiedemann
(c) MPI
Denise is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. She conducts research in private international law and international procedural law with a particular focus on family and inheritance, especially with regard to formalised and non-formalised romantic relationships.
Sandra Winkler
(c) Dalida Rittossa
Sandra Winkler is an Associate Professor at the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law (Croatia). She actively participates in international conferences and publishes scientific papers and articles mainly in the field of Croatian, Comparative and European Family Law. Active participation in research groups within European, Croatian and Italian projects enabled her to develop scientific skills in an internationalised environment.
Anna Wysocka-Bar
Anna is an Assistant Professor at the Center of Private International Law at the Law Faculty of Jagiellonian University (Poland). She is particularly interested in Europeanisation of international family law, including international civil procedure and tensions between different sources of private international law.