organizers
Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur, LL.M.
Emília Lana de Freitas Castro, Master of Laws, Ph.D. Candidate at the Faculty of Law, Universität Hamburg
Emília Lana de Freitas Castro is since April 2015 a Ph.D. candidate at Universität Hamburg´s Faculty of Law. She holds a Master of Law in International Law from the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), and is also a Brazilian lawyer, graduated from the Rio de Janeiro State University. At UERJ she worked as Assistant Lecturer for Private International Law.
Ms. Castro´s Ph.D. research project is: “The free movement of persons, the freedom of settlement and the free movement of employees in Brazil and in Mercosur: Are the European Union and Germany possible legal and political models for the freedom of migration?”
Annalisa Morticelli, Master of Laws, Ph.D. Candidate at the Faculty of Law, Universität Hamburg
Annalisa Morticelli started her PhD research on October 2013 on the subject of protection of human rights of irregular migrants in Europe at the Faculty of Law at Universität Hamburg, Germany. She achieved her Master degree and Master of Advanced Studies in Law at the University of Studies of Turin, Italy.
Previously the PhD, she also collaborated with the University of Bradford School of Law, UK, in a research project on migration in European Union and she worked as coordinator of a research project on irregular migration in European Union for a Think Tank in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Ülkü Sezgi Sözen, LL.M. Ph.D. Candidate at the Faculty of Law, Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law, Universität Hamburg
After her graduation as the third-best in 2012 from the Law Faculty of Istanbul Kültür University, in October 2013, she received her LL.M. degree from Europa-Kolleg Hamburg. Since November 2013 Ülkü Sezgi is a PhD student of Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law. In her research project she deals with the association law and migration policy with special reference to Mediterranean countries.
At the same time she gives lecture on 'International Private Law in Turkey' at the Law Faculty of Universität Hamburg. She is also a columnist at the Newspaper Haber Hürriyeti http://www.haberhurriyeti.com/?s=ülkü+sezgi+sözen.
Dinah Cassebaum, Co-Organizer