Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law
Doctoral students
Reem Ahmed
reem.ahmed"AT"studium.uni-hamburg.de
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.
Lucas Bento
Lucas received his Law Degree from the University of São Paulo (2015), with a sandwich period as Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2013/2014), awarded to the Scholarship for Academic Merit by the President’s Office of the University of São Paulo.
He then completed the Economic Analysis of Corporate Law & Commercial Contracts program at Coase Sandor Institute for Law & Economics at the University of Chicago (2015) and developed his graduate studies, masters level, in Corporate Law and Commercial Contracts at the University of São Paulo (2016/2017).
Currently he is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Hamburg, granted to scholarship from the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law.
Lucas worked as legal assistant at Ribeirão Preto Bank (2014-2015), associate lawyer at Guedes Nunes, Oliveira & Roquim Law Firm (2015-2016) and associate lawyer at Perlman Vidigal Godoy Law Firm (2017), all in M&A transaction, post M&A arbitration, financial contracts, commercial contracts, commercial litigation, banking and administrative procedures at the Brazilian Securities Exchange Commission.
During 2016 and 2017, Lucas served as Teaching Fellow at the University of São Paulo, Visiting Lecturer at CEDIN – Center of Studies of Law and Business, and Arbitrator at FDI and Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration moots, both in Brazil and abroad.
Among another publications, Lucas coordinates the book “Estudos sobre Negócios e Contratos: uma perspective internacional a partir da análise econômica do direito” (Studies on Business and Contracts: an international approach from economic analysis of law), published by Almedina.
Giuseppe Bitti
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.
Noby Thomas Cyriac
Born in 1990 in Kerala, India. Noby Thomas Cyriac completed his B.A.LL.B.(Hons.) degree with specialization in Business Laws in 2014 from the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala. He enrolled himself as an advocate in the same year and joined Joseph & Kuriyan Advocates where he started his litigation practice in Kerala (2014-16). His practices areas were civil, corporate litigation and arbitration. In 2016, he received the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding – Dr. Angela Merkel Scholarship. Pursuant to this Award, he was selected for the LL.M. program in “European and European Legal Studies” at the Europa Kolleg Hamburg, University of Hamburg (2016-17). Meanwhile in his first year in Germany he was associated with the Competition Law team of Baker Mckenzie in Dusseldorf. His Master Thesis focus was on "The Role of Big Data in the EU Commission's Control of Mergers: The Facebook/WhatsApp Case and Beyond".
Since November 2017, Noby Thomas Cyriac is a Ph.D. student of Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law. As an Ambsl researcher he is working on the topic of Abuse of Dominance by Big Data dominant firms in the realm of EU competition law jurisprudence.
Kelly Amal Dhru
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.’
Rawan Diab
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.
Barbara Germann
barbara.germann"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Englisch-bilinguales Abitur 2008 in Düsseldorf; Volontariat bei Sorya e.V. in Kambodscha (2008/2009); Studium der Rechtswissenschaften an der Westfälischen Wilhelms Universität zu Münster (2009-2014); Fachspezifische Fremdsprachenausbildung für Juristen (FFA) im Bereich common law (2009-2011); Studienaufenthalt in Frankreich an der Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (2011); erste juristische Staatsprüfung (Oktober 2014); seit 2015 Stipendiatin, Scholar und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin der Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law; Promotionsstudentin im Bereich des öffentlichen Rechts.
Julia Harten
Julia Harten is a member and scholarship holder of the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law since 2018. She works as a research and teaching assistant in the team of Prof. Reinhard Bork at the Chair for Civil Procedure Law and General Procedural Law. Her current focus area is international insolvency law. She holds an LL.M. degree in Corporate Law from the University of Edinburgh, for which she received the T.B. Smith Prize for the Most Distinguished Scholar graduating from the LLM or MSc postgraduate degrees.
Julia’s academic education started in Hamburg, where she studied law with a focus on private international law and comparative law. As part of her studies, she spent one academic year at the Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne in France. She received a scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and gained her first research experience as a student assistant in a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg.
Svenja Langenhagen
svenja.langenhagen"AT"gmail.com
Svenja Langenhagen grew up in Munich (Bavaria) and moved to Hamburg in 2012 in order to study law at the University of Hamburg. Svenja Langenhagen spent one semester participating in the 22nd Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court (an international competition between teams of over 350 universities worldwide) as a team member (2014/2015). Afterwards, in course of her further university studies, she specialized i.a. in private international law and in international procedural law.
While passing her first state exam, Svenja Langenhagen worked in a law firm (insolvency law) and coached the Vis Moot Team of the University of Hamburg for the 26th Willem C. Vis Moot Court (2018/2019). Concerning the Vis Moot she is now a vice chair of the ‘Vis Moot Court Alumni Universität Hamburg e.V.’ and again a mentor for the this season’s coaches.
Since June 2019 Svenja Langenhagen is working as a Research Associate for Prof. Dr. Peter Mankowski at the University of Hamburg in the field of private international law and international procedural law. Simultaneously, she started with her PhD thesis in the field of “Human Rights and Environmental Protection in International Sales Law” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Peter Mankowski and Prof. Dr. Mareike Schmidt (LLM, Tsinghua). Since October 2019 Svenja Langenhagen is a member of the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law and holds a scholarship for her PhD.
Kalika Mehta
kalika.mehta"AT"geneva-academy.ch
Kalika Mehta has been a PhD Candidate at the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law since November 2018. She holds an LL.M. cum laude from Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Geneva (2015-16) and BA.LL.B (Hons.) from Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab (2010-15). She is qualified to practice law in India.
Before joining the program, she briefly worked on the transitional justice issues in Myanmar followed by a Traineeship at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin. At ECCHR, she primarily assisted on the situation of War Crimes in Iraq by the UK Forces between 2003 - 2008 before the International Criminal Court. In 2018, she taught undergraduate students at Jindal Global Law School, Sonepat, India.
Her research interests include International Criminal Law, Strategic Litigation, and Transitional Justice.
Abhishek Mishra
mishraabheeshek@gmail.com
Abhishek has five years of academic experience in India as Assistant Professor, prior to joining AMBSL, University of Hamburg; he was associated with WBNUJS, Kolkata. WB, India. and two years of international and national law firms experience. He has published articles in various journals such as Year Book on Indian Society of International Law. He also has a book to his credit on Capital Market: Legal Regime in India published in India. He is presently researching on the topic of “Extrajudicial Killings: Normative study to determine the impact on State and Democracy in changing World Order.” The central thrust of his thesis is comparative study of certain States to identify the raison d’etre of extrajudicial killings in those states. The study analyses the relationship between right to life under international law and municipal law.
Francesco Moresco
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.
Erion Murati
erion.murati"AT"studium.uni-hamburg.de
Born in 1994 in Librazhd, Albania. He achieved his LL.M (single-cycle, five years) in criminal law at University of Udine in Italy with 110 up to 110 in February 2018. Joined the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduated School of Law in July 2018. His Ph.D topic is focused in the EU regulatory challenges arising from online transport platforms. In specific, subject of his studies is a new transport paradigm named ‘Mobility-as-a-Service’ (MaaS). Since March 2020 he is a Lecturer of the foreign language course ‘EU GDPR and Online Platforms’ at Uni-Hamburg, Law Faculty. His mother language is Albanian, he also speaks Italian, English and German.
Franziska Niehaus
franziniehaus"AT"googlemail.com
Franziska Niehaus studied law at the University of Hamburg, completing her first State exam in 2018. Subsequently, she started to work as a research and teaching assistant in the team of Prof. Dr. Stefan Oeter at the Institute for International Affairs at the University of Hamburg. In this position, she organised the German National Rounds of the ‚Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition‘ of 2019 as the National Administrator.
Already during her studies, her main focus was on international law and in 2016, she participated in the Jessup Moot Court Competition herself. Furthermore, she functioned as chairwoman of the board of the HanseMUN e.V., which organises Model United Nations Sessions and Conferences at the University of Hamburg. During her studies, she held a scholarship at the ‚Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung‘.
Since November 2019, Franziska is a member of the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law and holds a scholarship for her PhD in international law. Her research focuses on UN peacekeeping missions and their mandates to protect civilians.
Bojan Perovic
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.
Marie Johanna Raben
Marie Raben has been an AMBSL scholar since october 2018. Her field of research is energy law. At the same time she works as a research fellow for the University of Hamburg. After her studies in Hamburg and Strasbourg (URS) she successfully completed her German Referendariat in Hamburg. During her Referendariat she worked amongst others for the administrative court, the administration of city parliament and for a medium-sized law firm.
Tomas Restrepo Rodriguez
tomas.restrepo"AT"uexternado.edu.co
Tomás is a Colombian attorney and academic interested in private law, international law, environmental law, and energy law. He holds an MBL in International Energy Law from the TU Berlin and the Berlin Institute for Energy and Regulatory Law, as well as an LLM in Banking and Finance from Queen Mary, University of London. He is researcher and teacher at the Civil Law Department and the Mines and Energy Department of the Universidad Externado de Colombia. He has published scientific articles in Colombia and in Germany. He is currently working on his dissertation, which explores intersections between international investment arbitration and climate change law.
Ülkü Sezgi Sözen, LL.M.
Uelkue.Sezgi.Soezen"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Ülkü Sezgi Sözen was born in 1987 in Izmir, Turkey. After graduating the high school with the Abitur in Izmir, she started her bachelor's degree in 2006 at the Law Faculty of Istanbul Kültür University with a state scholarship, which she graduated as the third-best in 2012. Between 2009 and 2010 she studied for two semesters as an Erasmus student at the Law Faculty of Leipzig University. At the meantime, she did internships at the Leipzig District Court and also at two law firms in different areas. In summer 2011, she worked as a research assistant at the Chair of International Law and European Law at the University of Leipzig. In October 2012, she participated in the master program "European and European Legal Studies" at Europa-Kolleg Hamburg, Hamburg University with a grant from the Schulze-Fielitz Foundation part. In October 2013, she received her LL.M. degree with the defense of her work titled "The Relationship of Mediterranean States with the EU in the Light of Free Movement of Workers".
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. Her mother tongue is Turkish; she speaks also German and English and has basic knowledge in French.
Antonia Sommerfeld
Antonia studied law at the University of Hamburg and the Université Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, France. She is a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Since 2016 she is a doctoral candidate in the field of Economic Law, Private International Law and International Arbitration Law under Prof. Dr. Peter Mankowski at the University of Hamburg. She teaches Contract Law, Commercial Law and Property Law.
Antonia was a participant (2011/2012) and a coach (2014/2015) at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (University of Hamburg). She worked as a student research assistant at the Chair for Civil Law with emphasis on Succession Law, Family Law and European Private Law at the University of Hamburg (Prof. Dr. Bettina Heiderhoff) and later at the Chair for Civil Law, Comparative Law, Private International Law and International Civil Procedure (Prof. Dr. Peter Mankowski). Previously, Antonia gained work experience in the field of Commercial Law and in the field of Maritime Commercial Law in specialized law firms in Hamburg.
Antonia is a member of Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law (AMBSL), University of Hamburg, since 2016.