Cambridge Doctoral Symposium on Legal Theory in Practice: Speakers

Law in Fragments
13th - 15th April 2011 | Lauterpacht Centre

The following speakers will be presenting at the symposium:

Keynote Speaker 

Dr Guglielmo Verdirame
Lecturer in International Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. His research covers a range of public international law topics. For more, please see his detailed biography.

Panelists

Ernesto Aguinaga
PhD candidate at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. He holds the AECI Scholarship and was awarded with the 2010 extraordinary prize for the best academic record.

Dr Rebecca Bates
Law Lecturer at Brunel University, University of London.

Veronika Bílková
Diploma in International Law candidate at the University of Cambridge. She comes from the Czech Republic, where she graduated in law, political science and French philology. She focuses on the theory of international law, international humanitarian law, the use of force, human rights and international criminal law.

Elena Cooper
PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests lie with the history of intellectual property law in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Anna Dolidze
Doctor of Laws candidate at Cornell Law School, USA. Currently, she is a visiting doctoral scholar at SciencePo in Paris. Previously, she was hosted as a visiting fellow at Columbia University and New York University School of Law.

Annika Jones
Annika Jones is currently writing her doctoral thesis at the University of Nottingham on the use of external jurisprudence at the International Criminal Court. She has obtained a first class degree in Law (LLB) and an LLM in International Criminal Justice and Armed Conflict with distinction from the same institution. She has worked as an intern within the Appeals Chamber of the ICC, and subsequently on the case of Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo within Trial Chamber I. Annika is also a senior researcher within the International Criminal Justice Unit of the Human Rights Law Centre.

Younsik Kim
PhD candidate in law at the University of Edinburgh.

Asad Kiyani
PhD candidate at the Unversity of British Columbia, Canada.

Mieke Olaerts
Assistant Professor, Institute for Corporate Law, Governance and Innovation Policies, Maastricht University, Netherlands.

Paolo Sandro
PhD candidate in legal theory at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a LLB in administrative law and a LLM in legal theory from University of "Roma Tre", Italy. He has published several papers in Italy in administrative and tax law, legal theory, european and international law.

Giriraj Subramanium
LLM candidate at the New York University School of Law. His research focuses on Antitrust and Classical Liberal Jurisprudence. He graduated Magna cum Laude from the National Law University, India.

Anastasia Tataryn
PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research interest is in migration and labour law and how we may re-think critical legal research when considering alternative research methodologies, such as Indigenous research and ethnography. Anastasia holds an LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto) and a MA in History.

Godofredo Torreblanca
PhD candidate, LLM in International Humanitarian Law (Université de Genève, Switzerland). He holds the Avina Stiftung Scholarship and was a former legal officer and legal attaché at the ICRC.

Adryan Toth
LLM candidate at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. His research is in the areas of Jurisprudence, Legal Theory & Philosophy of Law, and Constitutional Law. He earned a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Comm.) with Great Distinction in 2009, as well as a Juris Doctor (JD) with Distinction from the same university.  

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