Doctoral Students

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Reem Ahmed completed her Masters in International Security at the University of Groningen in 2015. Prior to that, she studied Politics at the University of Leeds and spent one year at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as part of the Erasmus Programme. Since 2015, she has been working as a Researcher at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg within the framework of the EU FP-7 funded VOX-Pol Network of Excellence. In between her studies, she interned at Transparency International in Berlin and volunteered for two international charities in London.

Reem joined the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law in November 2017. Her dissertation explores state responses to online extremism and the implications of pre-emptive measures in this regard. She has previously published in the area of radicalisation, with a particular focus on right wing and jihadi extremism.

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Emmanouil Amanios was born in Thessaloniki. He studied law at Aristotle University Thessaloniki and specialized in public international law and law of the sea at Democritus University of Thrace. He then graduated from Democritus University of Thrace in 2020 with a master’s thesis on the legal regime of the Arctic Ocean.

He is an EU – qualified lawyer and since 2018 he has been working as a freelance attorney and translator in Thessaloniki focusing on national and international civil law (property, inheritance, family and cadastral law).

During 2020 and 2021, Emmanouil served as an academic researcher at “Krateros Ioannou Research Institute for International Law and Relations” at Democritus University of Thrace. He has previously participated in Telders International Law Moot Court Competition as a member of the Board of Review and a judge.

Emmanouil joined Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law in October 2021. His research focuses on the dependent archipelagoes in the Law of the Sea. Over the past few years, he has published several articles on law of the sea issues in Greek and English. Among other publications, he belongs to the authors of a law of the sea book on the Greek – Turkish dispute. His mother tongue is Greek and he also speaks English, German, and Spanish. His current academic supervisors are Prof. Dr. Alexander Proelß and Prof. Dr. Stefan Oeter.

Research interests: international law of the sea, public international law, European human rights law, civil law.

Khashayar Biria was born and grew up in Tehran, Iran. He moved to Hamburg to study law with a specialization in European and International Law, for which he received the University’s Merit Scholarship. Graduated in 2020 by completing the First State Exam, he started to work in an international law firm on competition matters while developing his dissertation thesis. Later in October 2021, he joined the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law, where he was awarded a doctoral scholarship and is being supervised by Prof. Dr. Stefan Oeter and Prof. Dr. Anne van Aaken. His dissertation project deals with the effects and legality of certain sanctions as encountered at the intersection of international law and European (private) law.

giuseppe.bitti"AT"studium.uni-hamburg.de

Studied law at LUISS University in Rome and at the University of Zurich, focusing on Public and Administrative law.

Graduated from LUISS University with a master’s thesis on Public economic law and regulation (2015).

Worked at the Faculty Office of LUISS (2015) and at the Directorate General Legal Services of the European Central Bank (2016).

Joined the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law in 2016.

Currently working in the field of European economic and financial law, on the topic of regulation of financial services and services of general economic interest.

Research interests: European law; Administrative law; Banking and financial law; Competition law; Public procurement law; Consumer law; Law & Economics.

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Kelly Amal Dhru is a law graduate from India, and has completed the degrees of Bachelor of Civil Law (Distinction) and Master of Philosophy of Law from University College, University of Oxford.  In India, Kelly was a founding member of Research Foundation for Governance in India, a think-tank focusing on legal awareness and legislative drafting, and a co-founder of Lawtoons, a comic book series to educate children about laws and rights. In 2016-17, She was a Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellow in Public Health Law and Bioethics, as a part of which she completed the LLM from Harvard Law School. She is a research assistant to Professor Marion Albers, and her PhD focuses on the topic ‘Emerging Neurotechnologies, Personhood, and Legal and Human Rights.’

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Rawan Diab (was born in Latakia, Syria in 1990), after graduation from high school 2007, She held an undergraduate degree from the faculty of law at Tishreen University in latakia in 2012. Then received a scholarship from the University of Algiers where she obtained her Master’s degree in public law (department of Environment and Urbanization) in 2015. After that she joined the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Gratuate School of Law in November 2016, and is currently working on her doctoral thesis at the University of Hamburg, (Faculty of law, Prof. Dr. Jochen Bung, Professorship for criminal law and legal philosophy).

Her Doctoral thesis focuses on the right to immigrate in international law, there is only a right to leave, not a right to enter the state of asylum. Philosophically, there are different positions on this. In addition to some issues related to this topic such as open borders and universal citizenship.

Clara was born in Brazil in 1996 and grew up in Rio de Janeiro. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)in 2019. After successfully passing her Brazilian bar exam, she became a certified lawyer in Brazil and later in Portugal. After concluding her studies and spending one year living in Dublin, Ireland, to improve her English skills, she started a Master's Degree in International Law and International Relations at the University of Lisbon in 2020.

The degree was concluded with an A rank on the ECTS grading scale. The final written and presented dissertation was on "The impacts of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals on the European Union's ocean management policies." During her Master's studies, Clara developed a keen interest in the International Law of the Sea, Environmental Law, and Climate Change Law. This led her to pursue an Erasmus Research Internship at the University of Hamburg in 2021 under the guidance of Professor Dr. Alexander Proelß. Her research focused on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and their impact on the European Union's climate change policies.

Clara is a member of the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law, having joined in November 2023. As an AMBSL scholarship holder, she is working on her doctoral thesis, which explores the role of science in the development of the International Law of the Sea regime in the Anthropocene. In addition to her doctoral studies, she is part of the Summer Academy management team at the International Foundation for the Law of the Sea. Her role involves assisting in the organisation of a yearly summer course on International Law of the Sea and Maritime Law, held at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg. Her doctoral thesis is supervised by Professor Dr. Alexander Proelß and Professor Dr. Ivo Appel.

Mohamed El Gharib, born and raised in ElGouna, Egypt, began his legal studies at Ain Shams University, where he earned a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in 2018. After working as a contract lawyer in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, he relocated to Hamburg to pursue a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Law and Economics at the University of Hamburg. During his master's, he worked as a student assistant at the Institute of Law and Economics (ILE), University of Hamburg, and was part of the research team on the MENA region. Upon completing his master’s degree, he continued at the Institute of Law and Economics as an academic tutor, assisted in coordinating the interdisciplinary Master’s program in Law and Economics of the Arab region (MLEA), and continued his research on the MENA region.

In October 2023, Mohamed El Gharib was funded to begin his Ph.D. at the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law Program at the Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg. His Ph.D. project focuses on marriage practices among the Muslim community in Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Stefan Voigt and Prof. Dr. Nadjma Yassari.

Giolena (Georgia-Eleni) was born and raised in Athens, Greece. She completed her undergraduate studies at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Law in 2019. In 2016 she was a member of the Athens team which won the World Finals of the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition. Parallel to her studies she obtained a minor in Economics from the American College of Greece and spent a summer studying at UC Berkeley under a full scholarship. While an undergrad she worked as an intern at the Transparency International Greece and the CSR department of a large corporate group in Athens.

After her graduation she was an Erasmus+ trainee at the Political Department of the Greek Embassy in Paris, France. Giolena then completed the one semester Certificate in Transnational Law (CTL) program taking courses at the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute. The following year she studied at The George Washington University Law School where she completed her Master of Laws in international and comparative law with highest honours as a Fulbright, a Thomas Buergenthal, a Syn-enosis and an A.G Leventis Foundation scholar.

After successfully passing the Athens bar exam, she worked as an Associate at a dispute resolution firm in Cologne, Germany handling a series of international commercial arbitration cases both as counsel and as administrative secretary to the tribunal. Giolena has  presented her working papers twice at the annual conferences of the European Society of International Law (Utrecht, 2022 and Aix-en-Provence, 2023).

Giolena joined the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law in October 2024 as a scholarship recipient. Her research examines the „Protection of Community Interests in Global Common Areas through International Adjudication“. She is also part of the „Climate Law in International Context“ (CLIC) project, a transnational „Climate Law Clinic“ between the University of Hamburg and the University of Chile. Her doctoral thesis is supervised by Professor Dr. Alexander Proelß and Professor Dr. Markus Kotzur.

Research areas: public international law, environmental law, law of the sea, space law, international arbitration

Martin Fertmann is a doctoral candidate at the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law and the Centre for Law in Digital Transformation (ZeRdiT). After completing his law studies in Hamburg and Beijing, majoring in media law, he worked as a research associate at various corporate law firms and participated in providing pro bono legal advice at the Cyber Law Clinic of the University of Hamburg for several years. His doctoral thesis and main research interest focuses on institutional and procedural requirements for large internet companies engaging in content moderation under international human rights standards.

Maral was born in 1994 in Iran. She completed her bachelor’s in Law at the Faculty of Law and Political Science, Shiraz University, Iran, in 2016. Having achieved practical legal experience by working as a judicial intern at the regional courts, and as an administrative/legal staff at a private regional legal firm, Maral went back to the same faculty in 2018 to pursue her master’s in Public International Law. Simultaneously, she worked as a research assistant to the chair of Public and Public International Law at the Law Faculty of Shiraz university from 2019 to 2021.

She graduated in 2021 with the Summa cum laude honor for being ranked the top student of her class and defending her Master’s thesis on legal mechanisms for countering maritime terrorism in International Law with an excellent grade.

Her research interest lies in International Law of the Sea, on which she has published academic articles.

Maral has joined the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate school of law as of November 2022. As a scholarship holder of the AMBSL, she is working on her doctoral thesis which concerns legal challenges that arise from using emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, in the shipping sector, and the capacity of classic Law of the Sea regulations in response. Her doctoral thesis is supervised by Professor Dr. Alexander Proelß and Professor Dr. Markus Kotzur.

verena.kahl"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Verena Kahl studied law at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel and received her law degree (First State Examination) in 2011. Afterwards she completed a Masters degree in International Law and Human Rights at the United Nations mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. During her studies, she held a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation. In 2013 Verena started her legal clerkship and completed stations at the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Civil Court, the German Embassy in San José, Costa Rica, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, among others, receiving her Second State Examination in 2015. From 2015 to 2018 she held the position of junior lawyer and integrated expert at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica. Since April 2018 she is research assistant and lecturer at the Chair for Public Law, European and Public International Law of Prof. Markus Kotzur, with whom she has taught several seminars in the field of public international law.

Verena joined the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law in October 2020. Her PhD project is dedicated at a human right to climate protection. She has previously published articles in the areas of human rights, international environmental law and climate change in German and Spanish.

konstantin.knobloch"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Konstantin Knobloch was born in Cologne in 1994. He began his law studies at the University of Hamburg in 2014, which he completed in 2019 with his first state examination. During his studies, he set his focus on national and international civil law and civil procedural law as well as the history of private law. Furthermore, he worked as a student assistant at the Chair for Civil Law, History of German Law, Private Law in Modernity of Prof. Dr Tilman Repgen. Here he already had his first contact with the history of law, which would later shape the topic of his doctoral thesis.  Since autumn 2020, Konstantin Knobloch is a scholarship student at the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law. His doctoral thesis deals with liberty and the system of the estates of the realm as well as the methodology of the Usus Modernus in the 18th century. The supervisors of his dissertation are Prof. Dr. Tilman Repgen and Prof. Dr. Dr. Milan Kuhli. Before starting his doctoral thesis, he worked for one and a half years in two international law firms in the fields of real estate law and capital market law. 

He is currently working as an academic research assistant at the Chair for Civil Procedure Law and General Procedural Law of Prof. Dr Reinhard Bork.

Valerie Kühn grew up in Cologne, Germany. She began her law studies at the University of Hamburg in 2014. In 2016, she studied at the Aix-Marseille University in France as part of the Erasmus Exchange Program. After receiving her First State Examination in 2020, she worked as a research assistant at the University of Hamburg at the Chair of Civil Law, Labour Law, Corporate Law and Comparative Law of Prof. Dr. Claudia Schubert. Since then, she has also regulary participated in research meetings and colloquiums of the Franco-German research group GEFACT.

In October 2021 Valerie Kühn joined the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law as a scholarship student. Her PhD project focuses on comparative labour law studying the regulations for home office work in the German und French legal systems. Her supervisors are Prof. Dr. Claudia Schubert and Prof. Dr. Judith Brockmann.

Currently, she combines her research on French law at the Comparative Law Center (COMPTRASEC) in Bordeaux with a Master’s programme in Comparative Labour Law at the University of Bordeaux.

Akram was born and raised in Egypt, where he obtained his LL.B. and LL.M. from Mansoura University. He served as a Teaching Assistant of Criminal Law for four years before earning his MA in International Human Rights Law from The American University in Cairo in 2023.

Alongside his academic pursuits, Akram built wide professional experience, first as a prosecutor at the egyptian public prosecution and later as a judge within the egyptian judiciary.

In October 2024, he joined the AMBSL as a PhD researcher under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stefan Oeter and Prof. Dr. Anne Van Aaken. His doctoral research critically examines the “Fragmentation of International Law,” challenging the uncritical adoption of “regime interaction,” pluralism, and constitutionalization discourses within the Post-WWII international legal order.

Research Interests: International Legal Theory; Post-Colonialism; Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL); Critical Legal Studies; Decolonization; Human Rights.

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Born in 1995 in Genova, Italy, Francesco Moresco has received his Master Degree (Laura Magistrale in Giurisprudenza) from Università di Pisa summa cum laude in October 2019. Francesco has been since September 2014 an Honor Student at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa), where he was awarded after a strictly selective test of a full five-years scholarship including an accomodation in the Scuola's college and the provision of a complementary education consistent with the institution's excellency program. During the University years, Francesco followed repeatedly his interdisciplinary interests, attending a high number of extra-juridical courses (political economy, political philosophy, contemporary history, international geopolitics). He spent two funded research periods abroad, first in 2017 when he worked on his annual dissertation on International Terrorism at Friedrich Schiller  Universitaet, Jena; further, in 2019, Francesco was admitted as a visiting student at the Department of Sociology of University of  Oxford, where he broadened his knowledge on the criminological substrate of the transnational crime of Human Trafficking under the supervision of Professor Federico Varese. The evidences collected were then included in his Master Dissertation, a study of the  organisational features of transnational human trafficking to Europe with both a criminological and comparative (Italy-UK) focus. Apart from his academic interests, Francesco was involved in different experiences in no-profit organisations: first, in 2014, he founded a junior group of Amnesty International in Genova; further, in 2017-2018, he took part to an activity of extra-forensic support to detainees provided by Associazione L'Altro Diritto.

Francesco is since November 2019 a funded PhD student of AMBSL, where he's been
admitted with a project on the juridical relevance of the concept of vulnerability in the supranational immigration policy, with both a focus on Transnational Criminal Law and European Public Law. His current academic supervisors are Prof. Dr. Florian Jessberger and Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur.

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Bojan Perovic received his LL.B. from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law and obtained his Master's degree in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights from the University of Belgrade. Prior to joining AMBSL, he spent two years as a research assistant at the Institute of Social Sciences, Center for Legal Research in Belgrade. 

Perovic gained an extensive non-formal education and practice in fields closely related to human rights and international humanitarian law through participation in numerous prestigious non-degree schools and voluntary work in various human rights and humanitarian non-governmental organisations (Royal Holloway, University of London; Lund University; Regional Academy on the United Nations; University of Groningen; International School for Holocaust; Duke University, etc.). 

His latest academic conferences were at Columbia University/NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, Lund University, University College London, ACUNS-Vienna; his latest articles were published by Peter Lang and Neofelis Verlag Berlin.

Perovic is a co-author of Oxford Public International Law debate maps (Oxford University Press) and in 2017 was named Youth Ambassador for European Code against Cancer by Association of European Cancer Leagues (ECL). Among other honours (including awards/fellowships/grants by George Mason University, UCL, RHUL/Northwestern University, University of Groningen etc.), Mr. Perovic has been awarded 2017/2018 Marshall T. Meyer Research Award from Duke University.

Since November 2015, Bojan Perovic is a Ph.D. researcher at the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law, University of Hamburg. His thesis is titled “The right to health of vulnerable groups during armed conflicts” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stefan Oeter and Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur.  His academic interests and research areas extend to international public law, especially human rights and international humanitarian law as well fields such as discrimination, nationalism, and transitional justice.

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Malte studied law in Hamburg and Stellenbosch (South Africa) and finished his studies in 2017 (first state examination) with a focus on Environmental Law. Before joining the chair for Public Law, Environmental Law and Legal Philosophy (Prof. Dr. Ivo Appel) at the Hamburg University as a research associate in 2018, he worked in an international law firm’s department for antitrust, competition and economic regulation.

He is part of the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law since 2020 and is working on his thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ivo Appel and Prof. Dr. Alexander Proelß. His dissertation project deals with the legal mechanisms of irrelevance in Environmental Law and beyond.

Olha was born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1996. In 2017, she graduated from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a Bachelor’s degree in International Law. In 2018, Olha received an LLM degree in Human Rights Law with International Law from the University of Kent. Olha graduated with another LLM degree in 2021, this time specializing in Law of the Sea at the Arctic University of Norway.

Olha joined the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law (AMBSL) in October 2023 and has been working on her thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Alexander Proelß and Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur. Her research is dedicated to finding effective ways to differentiate between law enforcement and military types of use of force by government forces against other vessels at sea and clarifying the issue of applicability of the law of naval warfare to the instances of military use of force at sea.

Outside of her academic pursuits, Olha has interned in several governmental institutions in Ukraine and worked in the fields of private law and human rights law. Since 2018, Olha has been working at the Armed Conflict Location & Events Data project which collects and analyses data on all reported political violence and demonstrations around the world.

André Ramiro is a Brazilian privacy and data protection researcher with a foot in activism and civil society. He is currently a Non-Resident Fellow at Stanford University's Digital Civil Society Lab (Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society), with a project on accountability frameworks for government hacking activities in Latin America. Previously, he has worked as a research fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute (Berlin), investigating models of democratic oversight of intelligence services in Brazil and Germany, especially when using exploitation surveillance technologies, and at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (Berlin), as fellow from the Humboldt Foundation, with research on legal comparison on frameworks of data protection for law enforcement and intelligence, also with focus on Brazil and Germany. He is a member of the Latin American Network of Surveillance, Technology, and Society Studies (LAVITS).

He is co-founder and former director of the Law and Technology Research Institute of Recife (IP.rec), in Brazil, where he has coordinated research projects in the field of privacy and surveillance. Studies he has coordinated were covered by major newspapers in Brazil, such as the Folha de S. Paulo, and he has been called to speak at public hearings at the Brazilian Supreme Court and also at local level, such as at the Chamber of City Councillors of Recife. He was a Google Policy Fellow at the NGO Derechos Digitales (Chile, 2018), with research on encryption policies.

André has joined the AMBSL PhD program in 2024 as a fellow. He works on a thesis from a public law and data protection doctrine perspective, aiming to conceptualize new surveillance capabilities afforded by the exploitation of vulnerabilities in connected systems. He copes with the problem by analyzing economic, technopolitical, and legal aspects of the phenomenon. His doctoral research is supervised by Prof. Dr. Marion Albers and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz.

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Born in the city of Belo Horizonte (MG), Brazil, in 1990. Graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in 2014.  Study semester abroad at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (SoSe 2012). Passed the bar examination of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) in 2014. Held a scholarship from DAAD in 2014. Defended the master’s thesis “Sergio Buarque de Holanda’s antiliberal roots: Carl Schmitt in ‘Raízes do Brasil’” (2017), further published as a book (2018). Granted the degree of Master of Laws (major Law and Justice) by the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in 2018. Candidate to the degree of Doctor of Laws awarded with a scholarship from the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law (AMBSL) since 2018. His dissertation focuses on the relation between constitutional courts and the different models of political party funding.

kinan.sabbagh@uni-hamburg.de

Kinan Sabbagh is a doctoral fellow at the "Albrecht Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Graduate School of Law" and a fellow at the Research Training Group "Law and its Teaching in the Digital Transformation" of the Center for Law in the Digital Transformation (ZeRdiT). Following his law studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen / Nuremberg (FAU) with a focus on "State and Administration" and the Universidad Pablo-de-Olavide in Sevilla (UPO) with a focus on European Law, he is pursuing a PhD in Digitalization and Media Law. The goal of the dissertation project is to contextualize digital communication, user autonomy and digital sovereignty from a constitutional perspective.

Paulina Maria Schiefelbein was born in 1995 and grew up in Wedel, Schleswig-Holstein. During her school years, she spent an exchange year abroad in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, and attended high school there. In 2014, she began her law studies at the University of Hamburg, Germany, graduating in 2019 with her first state exam. During her studies, she worked as a student assistant in a law firm and later at the Chair of European and International Law.

After graduation, she remained at the chair and coordinated the interdisciplinary master programme European and European Legal Studies before joining an international law firm as a research assistant. There she works on corporate law as well as in the area of shipping. Since September 2022, she is a doctoral grant holder of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

In winter 2020, she attended the winter courses of the Hague Academy of International Law. In the summer of 2021, she gave a lecture on gender equality in the context of the World Trade Organization at the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law in Kiel. This lecture was published on the Völkerrechtsblog. Most recently, she co-authored a commentary on European Union law.

As a doctoral candidate at the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law (since November 2022), she is supported in her research on international trade law by her supervisors Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur, LL.M. (Duke Univ.) and Prof. Dr. Armin Hatje. In her Ph.D. thesis project, she is researching gender-related provisions in regional economic integration agreements. She focuses on the participation of civil society in drafting and implementing such provisions.

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Ina Schimmeroth (LL.M.) is a member and scholarship holder of the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law since October 2021. Her PhD thesis focuses on Corporate Responsibility for employee-related matters and employee participation in the supply chain supervised by Prof. Claudia Schubert (Universität Hamburg).

After graduating from high-school and spending one year with the German Development Service in the Philippines, she studied law at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg (i.Br.), Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Istanbul and the Free University Berlin specialising in labour law. After successfully completing her first state examination in 2015, she obtained an LL.M. at King’s College London in Transnational Law with a special focus on European and international labour law in 2016. Ina conducted her legal clerkship in Berlin between 2017 and 2019 with stations among others at the foreign affairs committee of the German Bundestag, the Consulate General of Germany in San Francisco and a medium-sized law firm in Berlin.

During her studies she worked as a student assistant at the chairs of Prof. Lena Rudkowski at FU Berlin and Prof. Peer Zumbansen at King’s College London as well as for Dr. Einat Albin at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After her graduation she worked as a research assistant at the chairs of Prof. Gralf-Peter Calliess at the University of Bremen and Prof. Claudia Schubert at the University of Hamburg.

After growing up in Westphalia, Falk Sturma returned to his birthplace of Hamburg to study law in 2014. He became interested in the international and philosophical aspects of law at an early stage. This was reflected in a semester abroad at Charles University in Prague in 2016 and in his participation in the first-ever "International Law Plus" cooperation with Macquarie University in Sydney in 2018. He also worked in the department of "International Affairs" at the University of Hamburg. After completing his studies, he initially worked in leading international litigation firms before pursuing his interest in legal philosophy topics in greater depth. Under the title „Moralität im Recht – Ronald Dworkins Theorie der einzig richtigen Entscheidung und das Selbstverständnis des Bundesgerichtshofs bei normativen Herausforderungen der Lebenswissenschaften", his dissertation takes a new look at the normative approach of the American legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin from a contemporary German perspective. The project poses the question whether Dworkin's theses have been too hastily dismissed by German-speaking legal philosophers and argues for a reconsideration.

Falk Sturma is a fellow and scholarship holder at the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law since the winter semester of 2021. His dissertation is under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Bung and Prof. Dr. Dr. Milan Kuhli.

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Born in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg in 1993, Nathalie Wangen began her studies in Law at the University of Luxembourg in 2012. This offered her the opportunity to study at the University of Montpellier (France) for one year as part of the Erasmus Exchange Program.

 At the University of Strasbourg Nathalie graduated with a master’s thesis in European Comparative Law (L’accès à l’avortement en Droit comparé France - Irlande, 2017). She pursued her studies with her LL.M. degree in Civil Procedure Law at the University of Hamburg before joining the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law in November 2018. Under the supervision of Mr. Professor Dr. Tilman Repgen, her dissertation explores child custody trough a comparative legal approach of both German and French legislations since the 20th century including supranational impulses.

 Besides her academic studies, Nathalie was able to gain work experiences in the field of Private Law with a special focus on Family Law in a Luxembourgish Law firm. She is fluent in Luxemburgish, German, English and French.

Burcu Yaşar is a member and doctoral fellow at Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law (AMBSL). Her PhD research focuses on electronic evidence in criminal procedure from a comparative and human rights perspective under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Kai Cornelius and Prof. Dr. Dr. Kuhli. Between 2021 and 2023 she worked as a research assistant at the Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP), Faculty of Law and Criminology, KU Leuven (Belgium) in the area of IT Law and data protection law.

Burcu holds an LL.B. degree from Galatasaray University and LL.M. degree in Transnational Law from King’s College London (with Distinction). During her LL.B. studies she spent a semester at the University of Montpellier 1 (Master 1) as part of the Erasmus ­­+ Student Mobility Programme. She completed an internship as a fellow of the Erasmus+ Traineeship Programme at the Corruption and Economic Crime Branch at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). She also worked as an in-house lawyer for an international bank in Vienna.

She has contributed to the research and prepared reports for the European Commission and published works in the areas of digitalisation and law.