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Visiting Researchers and Scholars 2003-2004

2003-2004 Full Year Visiting Researchers

[Christina Knahr]

Christina Knahr (Austria) Christina is currently enrolled in the PhD program at the University of Vienna Law School. She holds Masters Degrees in Law from the University of Vienna (1999) and in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (2003). From 2000-2001 she was Assistant to an Austrian Member of Parliament in the European Parliament in Brussels. Her doctoral dissertation deals with the issues of right to judicial relief of individuals in case of violation of WTO-law by member states. Christina’s research focuses on European Law, International Law, and US-EU relations.

[Jose Fernandez]

Jose Fernandez Iglesias (Spain) A graduate in Law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, he obtained a Doctor of Law degree from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in July 2003 for his research on Fraudulent Administration of Companies. Working as a lawyer in Spain since 1996 he recently collaborated as an attorney on white-collar crime cases involving some of Spain’s most prestigious banks and international companies. His research at the ELRC will consist of an in-depth comparative of American and Spanish law on the disloyal behavior of company administrators. The Real Colegio Complutense is sponsoring his stay at Harvard University.

[Ignacio Signes de Mesa]

Juan Ignacio Signes de Mesa (Spain) is a Ph.D. candidate at the Fundacion Ortega y Gasset in Madrid focusing on the liberalization process in Europe and the new concept of public service. A 2002 graduate of the La3w Faculty at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (U.C.M.) he was awarded a scholarship by the Spanish Government to study European Community Law at the College of Europe (Bruges) where he earned an LLM degree. His thesis on “Privatizations in Europe and European Community State Aid Regime” was completed in June 2003.

Spring 2004 Visiting Researchers

[Alejandro Lago Candeira]

Alejandro Lago Candeira (Spain) received his LL.M. degree from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in International Legal Studies in 2000 and is currently enrolled in the Ph.D program at the University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. Recently he has worked in the Legal Unit at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi and for the UNESCO Chair for the Environment at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. He is a lecturer in environmental law modules at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, at the School of Juridical Practice of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid as well as at several other universities in and around Madrid. In addition he is a permanent advisor to the Spanish Ministry for the Environment in international and European environmental negotiations. The most recent of these negotiations involved the 7th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the 1st Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, both held in February 2004 in Kuala Lumpur. His doctoral dissertation deals with the issue of global environmental governance.

Enoch Alberti Rovira (Spain) is a Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Barcelona where he also received his Doctorate in Law in 1986. His research at the ELRC will center on the effects of the bill of rights in a compounded state, specifically the role played by fundamental rights in compounded structures of public power.

Fall 2003 Visiting Researchers

[Juan Amaya-Castro]

Juan Amaya-Castro (The Netherlands & Columbia) is a 1996 graduate of Leiden University where he obtained a degree in international law. He went on to teach public international and European law at the University of Utrecht and has been teaching public international law and international human rights law at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam since 1998. He was a member of the Board of Editors of the Leiden Journal of International Law from 1995-2002 and is currently a member of the Netherlands School of Human Rights Research. Juan is the co-founder of the Foundation for New Research in International Law (http://www.fnril.org), based in The Hague. His doctoral thesis deals with public/private distinction and is focused on its dynamics in a number of selected judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, dealing with sexuality issues and the right to property.

[Georg Philip Krog]

Georg Philip Krog (Norway) is a research fellow pursuing a Doctor Juris degree at the University of Oslo’s Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law. The main focus of his research centers on international jurisdiction matters relating to tort, delict and quasi-delict. A graduate of the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Georg has been a visiting scholar at the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, in Hamburg (http://www.mpipriv-hh.mpg.de/) , a joint research program dealing with legal aspects of electronic commerce. The author of numerous articles on the subject of private international law and alternative dispute settlement, Georg has also published a book on the subject of international jurisdiction which is required reading for students at The Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. Parallel to his research Georg is currently co-authoring a book on international jurisdiction and e-commerce pursuant to the Brussels I Regulation, as well as teaching at the NRCCL. In addition to the Scandinavian languages Georg speaks French, German and English.

[Iris Nunez]

Iris Núñez-Trébol (Spain) received a PhD from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Masters Degree from Cambridge University (UK) . She is currently an Assistant Professor of Social Studies at Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio in Spain. Her research and teaching interests include contemporary political philosophy, Environment and Development Studies, Third World issues, Multiculturalism, Human Rights and International Relations.

Joaquin Gonzalez Ibanez (Spain) Received a PhD from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a law ddegree from Spain's Universidad Alfoso X El Sabio where is is currently a Professor of Social Studies. His research interests include International Public Law and International Relations.

[Amparo Martinez]

Amparo Martinez Guerra (Spain) Amparo received her Law Degree from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2001 and is currently a Ph.D. candidate and predoctoral fellow at the Penal Law Department of the Complutense. Her work focuses on “Advertising crimes, consumers protection and economic analysis of law”. She has worked at the International Investment Bureau of SEPI and has been a visiting Scholar at Fulda University in Germany. Amparo has received a grant from the European Commission to Study at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and has also presented her work as a fellow at an international seminar on “Immigration labour markets and social integration” at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published several articles and is a collaborator and columnist at the legal review “Noticas Juridicas”.

[Diana Sancho Villa]

Diana Sancho Villa (Spain) received her Law degree from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In November 1999 she obtained her PhD (cum laude) for her thesis about international transfers of corporate seats. She is currently Associate Professor of international private law at the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid. She was recently awarded the 2002 Data Protection Prize from the Spanish Data Protection Agency for her book entitled “International Personal Data Flows”. She has been a Visiting Researcher at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law and at the Computer and Law Research Center in Belgium. She has also studied international private law at The Hague Academy of International Law. Among her many publications are: International Transfer of Corporate Seat in the European Area, Eurolex, Madrid (2001), International Personal Data Flows, Agencia de Protección de Datos, Madrid (2003). She has collaborated in the Spanish Yearbook of International Private Law, in the Spanish Review of International Law, in the Review of European Law (La ley-UE), in the International Trade Bulletin (Boletin ICE), in the Law Review of Autonoma University and in the Revista de Propiedad Intellectual.

[Rafael Prieto]

Rafeal Rodríguez Prieto (Spain) Rafael received a Ph.D. in July 2001 from the Pablode Olavide University in Seville for his paper ‘Contemporarity and Limits in Participative Democracy. The Participative Experience in the Greater London Council 1981-1986 and the Participative Budget in Porto Alegre’. While at Pablo de Olavide he studied at the University of Bologna, the University of Utrecht, the Antonio Gramsci Institute, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has also been a visiting Researcher at the National University of Rosario, Belgrano University of Buenos Aires, Paulo Freire Institute, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México and the Real Collegio Complutense at Harvard university. He has been sponsored by the Latin American Human Rights Foundation, the European Union Socrates/Erasmus Program and the Spanish Foreign Ministry AECI Program. Currently, he has a faculty position at Pablo de Olavide University, is involved in a project with the Centre Tricontinental (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) and belongs to the Human Rights Research Group, directed by Professor Ramón Soriano. Among his published works are Hacia la lógica de la Responsabilidad (Anuario Iberoamericano de Dereitos Humanos, Rio de Janeiro, 2003), Algunas ideas preliminaries para el debate actual sobre patentes y propiedad intellectual (Centre Tricontinental, Louvain-la-Neuve, 2003), Legalidad: Explorando la nueva ciudadania (El Viejo topo, Barcelona, 2003). Rafael received degree in Law and Philosophy from the University of Seville and received his master’s degree in legal Theory form the International University of Andalucia.

Maria Mendez Rocasolano (Spain) A graduate in law from Complutense de Madrid University, in 2000 she also obtained a Doctor of law degree from Complutense (cum laude) for her thesis about environmental and constitutional law. She is currently Professor of environmental legislation at Alfonso X el Sabio University and professor of constitutional law in the Estudios Bursatiles Institute. She also works as visiting professor at the Federal Fortaleza University (Brazil), and for the Spanish Environment Ministry as specialist in environment law. Her work focuses on human rights and the environment and her articles on these topics have appeared in several national and international publications.

María Pérez-Ugena (Spain) A graduate of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Maria has a degree in Law as well as a PhD (cum laude) for her dissertation “Ombudsman & Parliament”. An Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, Maria has also been a visiting researcher at Pepperdine University, Tulane University and at Universität Regensburg in Germany. She has studied telecommunication Law at Comillas University in Madrid where she also taught Constitutional Law and Technology. Currently she is focusing her research on technology and human rights.

ELRC 2003-2004 Visiting Scholars

[Patrick Macklem]

Patrick Macklem (Canada) A Fulbright New Century Scholar, Patrick is a Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, where he teaches international human rights law, aboriginal people and the law, constitutional law, and labour law and policy. He is also a Visiting Professor of Law at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, where he teaches international human rights law and comparative federalism. At the ELRC, he is focusing his research on how international human rights law comprehends and addresses sectarian, ethnic and cultural conflict within and across national borders.

Jens Drolshammer (Switzerland) is a professor at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland mainly teaching comparative law as well as the planning and structuring of complex transactions. In addition he is on the Management Committee of a new program Masters of Law and Economics and is a member of the Institute of European, Economic and Comparative Law at the University of St. Gallen. In his third career he has ended the senior partnership at a large commercial law firm in Zurich and concentrates as independent professional in his firm Drolshammer Strategy and Law on consulting work at the interface of strategy and law. Jens’ time at the ELRC will be devoted to academic research and publication projects at both the law school and at the Kennedy School of Government. While at the Center, Jens will primarily work on laying the groundwork for publications in the areas of The Role of the Corporate Sector in international Governance, Law and Innovation, and-following up on his publications after his stay at the Center in 1999-The Global Lawyers.

ELRC 2003-2004 Senior Fellows

[Alejandro Lorite Escorihuela]

Alejandro Lorite Escorihuela (Spain), 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2003-2004
is currently in the SJD Program at Harvard Law School. Alejandro graduated in 1997 from the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva (Switzerland) and got his D.E.S in Public International Law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in 1998. In 1997-1998, he worked with the Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. His doctoral project at HLS deals with a comparative perspective on the theory of international law in Europe and the United States.

The Center is fortunate to have Alejandro on staff. This year he will work closely with the Director, Professor Kennedy, to organize lectures, events and conferences that will take place. Alejandro will also coordinate all the directed research for the Center.

Rose Moss (South Africa) joins the ELRC as a writing fellow. She has taught creative writing at the Nieman Foundation since 1993, and specializes in counseling international fellows to build on their existing writing skills. Rose has published three books and short stories, literary criticism, and non-fiction articles and opinion pieces. Her first novel, The Family Reunion, was short-listed for a National Book Award and her second, The Terrorist, set in South Africa, was featured by the New Fiction Society. Shouting at the Crocodile, a non-fiction book, focuses on the treason trial of two anti-apartheid leaders, now members of the government in South Africa. Her articles, short stories and opinion pieces have appeared in scholarly and literary journals and the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune and Atlantic Monthly. Her stories have been republished in anthologies in the United States and abroad and are cited in Best American Short Stories. She holds an MBA from Boston University, and has consulted to Fortune 500 companies and family businesses. Her honors include a Quill Prize and a Mellon Fellowship at Wellesley College, where she taught for nine years. She was a Phelps Stokes Scholar and has been a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony and a guest at Yaddo and Ossabaw. She was a member of PEN American Center and the Council of PEN New England and has served on the PEN NE Freedom to Write Committee. Significant portions of Rose's fiction and non-fiction treat people engaged with the law in the United States and abroad. Rose will be a great asset to the Visiting Scholars and Researchers at the Center. Click here for Rose's web page.