Alumni
Rustam Atadjanov
Rustam B. Atadjanov, LLB, LLM, Dr.jur., (born in Nukus, Uzbekistan) received his undergraduate degree in law from the Karakalpak State University back in 2003. Having acquired a practical legal experience as an Assistant Lawyer in the Bar Association of the Republic of Karakalpakstan and Senior Legal Consultant in the Juridical Help and Advice Center, he subsequently graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Law with an LLM degree in International Human Rights Law in 2006. Prior to joining the University of Hamburg Faculty of Law's doctoral programme in October 2014, Rustam worked as a Programme Responsible for national implementation of international humanitarian law and further on as Legal Adviser in the Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Central Asia for several years. In that capacity he provided legal advice to state authorities and lectured/presented to various academic circles on issues related to international humanitarian law, international criminal law, international human rights law, public international law as well as different national legal systems. Rustam's background combines both academic and practical experience, with the main focus on international legal topics. His research interests include foremost the substantive and procedural issues pertaining to international criminal law and humanitarian law. Besides, he speaks several languages (Uzbek, Kazakh, Russian, English, French and basic German and Ukrainian) and publishes in a number of academic journals on a wide range of topics in the sphere of international law.
PhD thesis: “Humanity” as Humanness: a Constituent Element of International Law Applicable to Crimes against Humanity (defended 6 June 2018, "magna cum laude")
Rustam Atadjanov's research is dealing with the concept of "humanity" as it pertains to crimes against humanity. His thesis' analysis considers this particular concept in its different aspects starting from its historical development and role in international law, to contemporary state in international criminal law, and to its place in various doctrinal theories of crimes against humanity. That analysis plays a key role in reviewing the exact nature of "humanity" as acquiring its own standing of a fully valid legal interest within the meaning of the Rechtsgut theory ("protection of legal good"). His manuscript is presently being prepared for publication with the T.M.C. Asser Press
Supervisors: Prof. Dr.jur. Florian Jessberger, Prof. Dr.jur. Rainer Keller und Prof. Dr. Nora Markard
Rustam Atadjanov
Rustam Atadjanov (born in Nukus, Uzbekistan) received his undergraduate degree in law from the Karakalpak State University back in 2003. Having acquired a practical legal experience as an Assistant Lawyer in the Bar Association of the Republic of Karakalpakstan and Senior Legal Consultant in the Juridical Help and Advice Center, he subsequently graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Law with an LLM degree in International Human Rights Law in 2006. Prior to joining the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law (AMBGSL) doctoral programme in August 2014, he worked as a Programme Responsible for national implementation of international humanitarian law and further on as Legal Adviser in the Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Central Asia for several years. In that capacity he provided legal advice to state authorities and lectured/presented to various academic circles on issues related to humanitarian law, international criminal law, international public law, in part - international human rights law as well as different national legal systems. Rustam's background combines both academic and practical experience, with the main focus on international legal topics. His research interests include foremost the substantive and procedural issues pertaining to international criminal law and humanitarian law. Besides, he speaks several languages (Uzbek, Kazakh, Russian, Ukrainian, English, French and basic German) and publishes in a number of academic journals on a wide range of topics in the sphere of international law.
PhD thesis: "Humanity" As A Constituent Element of Customary International Law Applicable to Crimes Against Humanity
As a scholarship holder under the AMBGSL programme, Rustam's research is dealing with the concept of "humanity" as it pertains to crimes against humanity. His thesis' analysis considers this particular concept in its different aspects starting from its historical development and role in international law, to contemporary state in customary international criminal law, to its place in various doctrinal theories of crimes against humanity and to the ways in which it has been so far integrated at the domestic state level. That analysis plays a key role in reviewing the exact nature of "humanity" as acquiring its own standing of a fully valid legal interest, or otherwise, within the meaning of the Rechtsgutschutz theory (protection of legal good).
Aydin Atilgan
Aydin Atilgan erhielt einen Bachelorabschluss in Rechtswissenschaften von der Universität Ankara (2004) und einen MA-Abschluss vom Marmara Universität EU-Institut in Istanbul, Türkei (2008). Einige Jahre praktizierte er als Anwalt und arbeitete in mehreren Projekten als Rechtsberater, Autor und Übersetzer. Seit November 2012 ist er Doktorand an der Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law. Er war Gastwissenschaftler an der Universität Bremen als DAAD-Fellow (2011-2012) und an der Universität Macerata, Italien (Sommer 2013). Er hat an verschiedenen Schulungen, Konferenzen, Sommerkursen und Seminare zu seinen Forschungsbereichen teilgenommen.
Global Constitutionalism: A Socio-legal Perspective
Aydin Atilgans Dissertation trägt den Titel „Global Constitutionalism: A Socio-legal Perspective”. Er befasst sich mit globalen Konstitutionalismustheorien, die mehrere Entwicklungen in Richtung Zusammenarbeit und Einheit im globalen Bereich als Indikatoren eines Konstitutionalisierungsprozesses interpretieren. Herr Atilgan untersucht diese Theorien unter sozial- und rechtswissenschaftlichen Gesichtspunkten, wobei er sich auf die Theorien der klassischen Gelehrten stützt.
Thiago A. Fauvrelle
Research Interests:
Monetary & fiscal policy framework; Business cycles; Institutional economics; Contract law & economics; International law & finance;
Thesis Title:
Law & Economics analysis of the international sovereign bond market
Academic Background:
2014-2015: LL.M. European Master in Law and Economics (Erasmus University of Rotterdam & University of Hamburg);
Master in Business, Law and Economics (Aix-Marseille University);
2009-2013: Bachelor of Economics with first class honors (Federal University of Paraíba);
2009-2014: Bachelor of Laws with first class honors (University Center of João Pessoa);
Summer courses in Boston University (2013) and Perpignan University (2011)
Work Experience:
2015-2015: Consultant for the European Commission;
2014-2014: Associate lawyer (Advocacia Carlos Aquino & Associados);
2012-2013: Undergraduate teaching assistant in Tax Law (University Center of João Pessoa);
2010-2013: Junior researcher on Economic Development, Monetary and Fiscal policy (Brazilian National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development)
Albana Hana
Ms. Albana Hana joined the AMBSL programme in November 2012. Her background is of a very interdisciplinary nature, encompassing law, psychology, sociology, and political sciences. Ms. Hana is a graduate of the University of Tirana and holds a double degree in law and social work, as well as a MA in Democracy and Human Rights in Southeast Europe from the University of Bologna and the University of Sarajevo. She has spent several years working in the public administration in Albania with EU-funded programmes, and at the University teaching various courses in social sciences. She is a certified trainer for the EU funds. Her academic research interests extend to areas such as European and International private law, European and transnational civil procedure, European family and matrimonial property law, legal certainty and legal communication, culture universalism and relativism, and social and cultural psychology. During the doctoral programme she has spent considerable time doing research at numerous institutions such as Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Law in Hamburg, University of Cambridge and Oxford, University of Utrecht, International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), as well as law firms in England and Germany. Ms. Hana speaks several foreign languages and has a passion for reading and travelling, which she considers of paramount importance for getting to know people and cultures.
Xenofon Kontargyris, LL.M.
Xenofon Kontargyris was born in Doumbia, Halkidiki, Greece in 1984. He entered the Aristotle’s University Law Faculty (Thessaloniki) in 2002 and obtained his LLB in 2007. He then moved on to pursue an LLM in International & EU Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2008). He has worked as a legal assistant for NATO’s Greek Combat Unit and as a Communications & Training officer for the European Commission.
As an academic, he has focused on intellectual property and competition law, with his dissertation in the context of his LLM being an analysis of the ‘Microsoft vs. the European Commission’ case before the CJEU. He then focused on effective regulation of different aspects of the internet, having contributed in conferences as an author on issues such as, the different approaches the EU and the US take on cloud technologies (EUTIC 2013, Waterford, Ireland), the evolution of Facebook’s privacy rules (e-Democracy 2013, Athens, Greece) and the ‘right to be forgotten’ (IFIP 2015, Edinburgh, UK).
As an AMBSL researcher Xenofon works on the topic of Cloud Computing Regulation, conducting a comparative study between EU and US law with the aim of building a set of regulatory principles that should serve as a basis for efficient regulation of cloud computing and its applications across different jurisdictions.
Xenofon is a qualified lawyer and member of the Thessaloniki Bar since September 2009.
Pipitsa Kousoula
Pipitsa Kousoula wurde 1987 in Athen, Griechenland geboren. 2005 begann sie ihr Studium in der juristischen Fakultät der Nationalen Kapodistrian Universität Athen, welches sie im August 2010 abschloss. Seit Oktober 2010 nahm sie am LL.M. Programm der Juristischen Fakultät Hamburg teil. Ihr Masterstudium schloss sie mit der Verteidigung ihrer Arbeit mit dem Titel „Der Staatsrat im Verfassungsgefüge der DDR“ im Juli 2012 erfolgreich ab. Im August 2012 begann sie ihr Fernreferendariat in Griechenland. Seit November 2013 ist sie Doktorandin der Albrecht Mendelsohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law und forscht zu dem Thema „Vom Bailout – Verbot zur solidarischen Bailout – Pflicht? Die Entwicklungen der europarechtlichen Rahmen in Krisezeiten und ihre Folgen“. Seit September 2013 arbeitet sie auch als Dozentin des weiterbildenden Studiums für Dolmetschen und Übersetzen der Arbeitsstelle für wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung (AWW) der Universität Hamburg. Ihre Muttersprache ist Griechisch und sie spricht auch Deutsch, Englisch und Spanisch.
Mika Kremer
Tobias Pielow
Plarent Ruka, MLB, LLM (Hamburg)
Plarent received his law degree from the University of Tirana, Faculty of Law in 2003. He is also a graduate of the European Center for Security Studies “George C. Marshall” (2007) and the Albanian School of Political Studies (2009). He holds a Master of Law and Business Degree from the Joachim Herz program of the Bucerius Law School/WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management (2010) and a Master Degree in European and European Legal Studies from Europa-Kolleg-Hamburg, University of Hamburg (2011). Plarent has worked for more than six years in various public institutions in Albania, at executive and political levels, such as the City’s Attorney Office at the Municipality of Tirana, Central Elections Commission, Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Health. He has also practiced law in a leading Albanian law firm. Plarent has also been lecturing Public Law and Legislative Techniques for one academic year at a private university in Albania. Plarent’s main areas of interest and practice are European Union Law, International Public Law (with a particular interest in WTO Law), Public and Administrative Law, Business Law, etc. In addition to his mother tongue, Albanian, Plarent speaks English, German and Italian.
The International Legal Responsibility of the European Union in the Context of the World Trade Organization: A Focus on Matters of Incompetence
Plarent enrolled in the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law in April 2012 and currently continues his research on the doctoral project: “The International Legal Responsibility of the European Union in the Context of the World Trade Organization: A Focus on Matters of Incompetence”. The topic addresses the implications that the blurred distribution of powers in the European Union (EU) polity can have for the international responsibility in mixed agreements, which is assumed to be jointly distributed among Member States. In his study, Plarent aims to elaborate the way the international legal responsibility arising out of the EU membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) is distributed among the EU Member States, particularly in those cases where the EU defends before the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism matters that are part of its Member States’ competences. By identifying the relevance of principles and legal institutions in addressing this research question and by taking into consideration the evolving and the unstable nature of the distribution of powers in the EU, it might be possible to provide an alternative view to the joint responsibility regime.
Jan-Robert Schmidt
jan-robert.schmidt"AT"uni-hamburg.de
1990 in Köln geboren. Abitur 2009 in Brühl. Studium der Rechtswissenschaften an den Universitäten Köln, Hamburg und Lissabon. Erste juristische Staatsprüfung im März 2015. Seit Mai 2015 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte, Privatrechtsgeschichte der Neuzeit und Bürgerliches Recht von Professor Dr. Tilman Repgen. Seit November 2015 Mitglied der Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Geschichte des 20 Jahrhunderts mit Schwerpunkt Rechtsgeschichte der Bonner Republik, Familien- und Kindschaftssachen.
Christian Steger
Christian Steger (28) studierte an der Universität Hamburg mit einem Studienschwerpunkt im Internationalen Privat- und Zivilverfahrensrecht sowie Rechtsvergleichung. Herr Steger sammelte als Praktikant und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter bereits Erfahrungen in internationalen Großkanzleien. Sein erstes Staatsexamen absolvierte er im Sommer 2012. Zu Studienzeiten nahm Herr Steger für die Universität Hamburg am Willem C. Vis Moot teil. Später coachte er zwei Mal das Team der Universität Hamburg und ist Vorsitzender des Vis Moot Alumni UHH e.V. Mit Beginn des Dissertationsvorhabens wurde Herr Steger zum Wintersemester 2012 in die Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law aufgenommen. Seit Herbst 2012 arbeitet er daneben als wissenschaftlicher Assistent am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg.
Die Präklusion von Anerkennungsversagungsgründen bei der Vollstreckung ausländischer Schiedssprüche
Das Dissertationsvorhaben stellt die Frage der Präklusion von Versagungsgründen in den Fokus. Konkret soll untersucht werden, ob bestimmte Versagungsgründe im Rahmen des Anerkennungs- und Vollstreckbarerklärungsverfahrens ausländischer Schiedssprüche präkludiert sein können. Gegenstand der Betrachtung sind dabei jene Versagungsgründe, die das New Yorker Übereinkommen vom 10. Juni 1958 über die Anerkennung und Vollstreckung ausländischer Schiedssprüche vorsieht. Die Arbeit untersucht und vergleicht dabei die Vollstreckungsregime verschiedener europäischer Rechtsordnungen. Abschließend möchte die Arbeit einen Beitrag zu der Frage liefern, ob auf diesem Gebiet eine weitere Harmonisierung geboten ist und wie diese sodann umgesetzt werden könnte.
Victor Ventura, LL.M.
victor.ventura"AT"studium.uni-hamburg.de
Victor Ventura holds an LL.B. (2010) and an LL.M. (2013) at the Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil and is a licensed attorney at the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) since 2010. Since early academic years, Victor has been engaged in studies on International Public Law in its multiple special regimes. His published Master thesis focuses on International Humanitarian Law and the legal challenges in protecting the environment during armed conflicts. Since October 2014, Victor Ventura is a PhD researcher in the Law of the Sea at the Albrecht Mendelsohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law of the University of Hamburg, under supervision of Prof. Dr. Stefan Oeter and Prof. Dr. Henning Jessen. His research topic is on “The Environmental Dimension of the ‘Brazilian Blue Amazon’ concept: the legal regime applicable to Outer Continental Shelves between sovereignty rights and environmental obligations in the International Law of the Sea”. The research lies in the intersection between Environmental Law and Law of the Sea, and investigates whether the expansion of a coastal state’s continental shelf is detrimental to the marine environmental protection. The study aims, among others, at clarifying the maneuver room left for coastal states to domestically regulate environmental matters on their outer continental shelves. In 2014, Victor has lectured Administrative Law and Public International Law at the Integrated Faculties of Patos, in Brazil. In 2015, he interned at the Legal Office of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Hamburg). Victor is fluent in Portuguese, English, Spanish and German, and has reading and listening skills in French and Italian.