Visiting Researchers and Scholars 2004-2005
2005 Spring Visiting Researchers
![[Matías Irigoyen Testa]](images/matias.jpg)
Matías Irigoyen Testa (Argentina) is a Research Assistant and a PhD candidate at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Law Faculty, Department of Applied Economics (Spain) focusing his PhD dissertation on Economic Analysis of Punitive Damages. He holds Masters Degrees in Law, Economics, and Public Policy from the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2002) and in Financial Analysis from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2003). From 2001-2005 he was awarded a grant from the Rafael Del Pino Foundation (Spain). From 1999-2001 he was a Law Professor at the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Department of Law (Argentina), researching Economic Analysis of Torts and Economic Analysis of Civil Responsibility, and teaching Tort Law, Elements of Law, Institutions of Private Law II, Law and Tourist Legislation.
N’Gunu Tiny (S.Tomé and Príncipe and Portugal) is a doctoral candidate at the London School of Economics and a Fellow at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa Law School (Portugal). He is currently executive-editor of the Jurist EU website and consultant for the OECD and for the Tropical Institute of Portugal. He has written in the field of constitutionalism and legal pluralism, law and development and international economic law. His research project at the ELRC focuses on systems of regional integration (NAFTA and the EU) and its normative interplay with the WTO.
Gaudencio Esteban (Spain) Is a Profesor of Business Law at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and former Director of the University’s Business Law Department (1999-2003). A Member of the Advising Board and Secretary of the review “Revista de Derecho de Sociedades" he also participated in the Spanish Committee for the Work Group (Etablissement et Services) at the European Council on the “Draft of 5th Directive on Corporate Governance” (1988-1992) and for the Work Group at the European Council on the "European Company" (1989-1992). Most of his research work is devoted to corporate governance issues, in particular, Board of Directors, powers and its relations with Shareholder’s Meeting. Lately he has published several articles about European Company. At the ELRC he focuses his research on the systems of management and control and the role of non executive or supervisory directors.
Luís de Lima Pinheiro (Portugal) has earned a J.D. degree (July 1984), a LL.M. degree (January 1990) and a Ph.D. degree (December 1997), from the Lisbon School of Law, University of Lisbon. He has been granted scholarships from the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso-American Foundation. Presently, he is Professor at the Lisbon School of Law, University of Lisbon, teaching Conflict of Laws and International Business Law and coordinating LL.M. courses in the same domains. He has also taught Introduction to the Study of Law. He is author of several books and articles in the subjects of Conflict of Laws, International Business Law, International Commercial Arbitration, Commercial and Maritime Law and Civil Law, including a 3 volumes textbook on Conflict of Laws.
Pedro Diaz Peralta (Spain) is a graduate in Law of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, where he received in 2004 his PhD (cum laude) and a graduate in Veterinary Medicine from Universidad of Cordoba (Spain). His doctoral dissertation focused on liability regimes related to residues of pharmacological active substances in foodstuffs. He currently holds a position at Toxicology and Health Law Department of the Universidad Complutense, and has been working as permanent officer for Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and for the European Commission at the Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General. As a member of the Spanish Association of Health Law, his area of interest is both Food and Health Law and Public Health. He is a lecturer, author of papers and co-author of books on deontology, medical and veterinary malpractice, physician liability, informed consent to treatment, medical expertise and food law. His research at ELRC concentrates on the analysis of the elements of liability and states responsibility regulating the global trade of food and feed, with respect to a proposal for an international liability regime in the framework of the World Trade Organization.
2004 Fall Visiting Researchers
![[Christina Knahr]](images/christina.jpg)
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.
![[Gabriela Ruiz Begue]](images/Gabriela.jpg)
Gabriela Ruiz Begue (Spain). Gabriela is currently enrolled in the LL.M. program at Harvard Law School, focusing on Intellectual Property Law. A graduate in Law from the Universidad de Navarra (June, 2001), she studied Private International Law at the Universität Salzburg. In September 2001, she joined Cuatrecasas Law Firm. Until June 2004, she worked at different departments: intellectual property department and also litigation, corporate, tax and competition departments, where she dealt primarily with intellectual property cases.
Felix Hanschmann studied Law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main where he graduated in 2000. From 2000 to 2004 he held a position of post-graduate research assistant at the Chair of Constitutional Law, Comparative Law and Philosophy of Law at the University in Frankfurt/Main. There, he was also interim research assistant at the Chair for Legal History as well as at the Wilhelm Merton-Center for European Integration and International Economic Systems. For his Ph.D., completed and defended in summer 2004, he was awarded a scholarship by the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). His research at the ELRC, which is sponsored by the German Department of Trade and Industry, mainly concentrates on theoretical issues in international law and European law.
Rasmus Goksor (Sweden) is an LL.M. in American Law candidate at Boston University School of Law. He has a Master of Laws degree from University of Gothenburg School of Law and Economics (2004). His prior studies and work experience have focused on Public International Law and Constitutional Law; in particular, terrorism and the notion of state sovereignty. At the European Law Research Center, Rasmus will research Social Contracts Law. Topics of concentration will include the protection of weaker parties in Contracts Law, and Federalism.
![[Ignacio Signes de Mesa]](images/signes.jpg)
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.
ELRC 2004-2005 Visiting Scholar
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 2004-2005 Senior Fellows
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.
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