Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law
Albrecht Mendelssohn
Bartholdy
Graduate School of Law
Bartholdy
Graduate School of Law
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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.fulanete.goncalves.bento"AT"studium.uni-hamburg.de
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
Studium der Rechtwissenschaften an der Universität LUISS in Rom und an der Universität Zürich mit dem Schwerpunkt Öffentliches und Verwaltungsrecht.
Abschluss des Studiums im Jahr 2015 an der Universität LUISS mit einer Masterarbeit im Bereich des Öffentlichen Wirtschaftsrechts.
Anschließend Mitarbeiter an der Universität LUISS. Im Jahr 2016 Trainee bei der Europäischen Zentralbank in Frankfurt (Main) in dem Bereich „Generaldirektion Rechtsdienste“ (Directorate General Legal Services).
Seit November 2016 Doktorand und Stipendiat der Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law an der Universität Hamburg.
Promotion im Bereich des Europäischen Wirtschafts- und Finanzrechts zum Thema der Regulierung von Finanzdiensten und Dienstleistungen von allgemeinem wirtschaftlichen Interesse.
Forschungsinteressen: Europarecht; Verwaltungsrecht; Banken- und Finanzrecht; Wettbewerbsrecht; Öffentliches Vergaberecht; Verbraucherrecht; Ökonomische Analyse des Rechts.
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.
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 ist seit 2018 Mitglied und Stipendiatin der Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law. Außerdem arbeitet sie als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin bei Prof. Reinhard Bork am Seminar für Zivilprozess- und Allgemeines Prozessrecht. Derzeit liegt ihr Forschungsschwerpunkt im Internationalen Insolvenzrecht. Sie hat einen LL.M. Abschluss im Corporate Law von der University of Edinburgh, für den sie den T.B. Smith Prize für die beste Studienleistung aller juristischen Postgraduiertenstudiengänge ihres Jahrgangs erhielt (Most Distinguished Scholar graduating from the LLM or MSc postgraduate degrees).
Ihre akademische Ausbildung begann sie in Hamburg, wo sie Rechtswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Internationales Privatrecht und Rechtsvergleichung studierte. Ein Jahr ihres Studiums verbrachte sie in Paris an der Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne. Ihr Studium wurde durch die Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes gefördert. Als studentische Hilfskraft konnte sie bereits Erfahrung in einer Forschungsgruppe zum Werks- und Dienstvertragsrecht am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht sammeln.
Martyna Kryziute-Gineitiene
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
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 was born in 1994 in Librazhd, Albania. He was admitted for his Laurea
Magistrale (single-cycle, 5 years) in Law at the University of Udine in October of 2013,
which he completed in February of 2018 with a thesis on Criminal Law, accomplishing a
final result of 110/110.
He was the first ever in Italy to obtain his degree one year early and just 23 years old. His
performance was subject to an interview by a national newspaper, Il Messaggero.
After his graduation he worked as a trainee lawyer for six months in a law firm in Udine.
Joined the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduated School of Law in July of 2018.
Currently working in the field of New Mobility and legal issues.
His mother tongue is Albanian and Italian, he also speaks English and he is studying German.
He is a dreamer.
Franziska Niehaus
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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 Niehaus 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 ist Stipendiatin der AMBSL seit Oktober 2018. Sie forscht zu einem energierechtlichen Thema. Gleichzeitig arbeitet sie als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Universität Hamburg. Zuvor hat sie an den Universitäten Hamburg und Straßburg (URS) studiert und erfolgreich ihr Referendariat am Hanseatischen Oberlandesgericht abgeschlossen. Als Referendarin hat sie unter anderem Stationen am Verwaltungsgericht Hamburg, in der Hamburgischen Bürgerschaftskanzlei sowie in einer mittelständischen Rechtsanwaltskanzlei absolviert, wo sie zuletzt auch als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin tätig war.
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 wurde 1987 in Izmir, Türkei geboren. Nach der Schulzeit in Izmir, die sie mit dem Abitur abschloss, begann sie 2006 ihren Bachelor an der juristischen Fakultät der Istanbul Kültür Universität mit einem staatlichen Stipendium, welchen sie in 2012 als drittbeste abschloß. Zwischen 2009 und 2010 hat sie zwei Semester als Erasmus Studentin an der Universität Leipzig studiert und während dieser Zeit neben dem Studium beim Landgericht Leipzig und auch bei zwei Rechtsanwaltskanzleien als Praktikantin gearbeitet. Im Sommer 2011 hat sie als wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am Lehrstuhl für Völkerrecht und Europarecht der Universität Leipzig gearbeitet. Im Oktober 2012 nahm sie am Master Programme des Europa-Kollegs Hamburg mit einem Stipendium der Schulze-Fielitz Stiftung teil. Im Oktober 2013 erwarb sie ihren LL.M. mit der Verteidigung ihrer Arbeit mit dem Titel ,,The Relationship of Mediterranen States with the EU in the Light of Free Movement of Workers".
Seit November 2013 ist sie Doktorandin der Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law. In ihrem Dissertationsprojekt beschäftigt sie sich mit dem Assoziationsrecht und der Migrationspolitik unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der mediterranen Staaten. Ihre Muttersprache ist Türkisch, sie spricht außerdem Deutsch und Englisch und verfügt über Grundkenntnisse im Französischen.
Antonia Sommerfeld
Studium der Rechtswissenschaften an der Universität Hamburg und der Université Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Frankreich; Erste Juristische Staatsprüfung 2016 vor dem Hanseatisches OLG Hamburg. Seit 2016 Doktorandin bei Prof. Dr. Peter Mankowski, Universität Hamburg.
2012-2013 Studentische Hilfskraft am Lehrstuhl für Bürgerliches Recht mit Schwerpunkt Erb- und Familienrecht sowie für Europäisches Privatrecht der Universität Hamburg (Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Bettina Heiderhoff); 2014-2016 Studentische Hilfskraft am Lehrstuhl für Bürgerliches Recht, Rechtsvergleichung und Internationales Privat- und Prozessrecht (Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Peter Mankowski). Seit Januar 2017 wissenschaftliche Assistentin am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht.
Teilnehmerin (2011/2012) und Coach (2014/2015) im Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (Universität Hamburg). Mitglied der Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law (AMBSL), Universität Hamburg, seit 2016.