Dr Leo Boonzaier is the course director and main teacher for our summer course Law and Politics.

Leo Boonzaier is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Private Law at the University of Cape Town. He studied social science and law at UCT and then did his graduate work at Oxford. In 2012 he was a research assistant to Prof Reinhard Zimmermann at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and in 2013–14 he clerked for Justice Edwin Cameron at the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He has taught tort, contract, land, and jurisprudence for various Oxford colleges as well as at University College London.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Arndt Künnecke is the course director and main teacher for our summer course EU Consumer Law.

Arndt Künnecke is Professor for Public Law and Politics at the Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Brühl, Germany. From 2007-2017 he was working in Turkey as lecturer for law and political science at Okan University Istanbul and MEF University Istanbul. Besides, he also practiced as lawyer and freelance journalist for German media. Throughout his academic career he conducted extensive interdisciplinary research on comparative aspects in Turkish and European law and politics, minority rights, EU consumer law and European migration law and politics, and published several books and articles on these subjects. He regularly teaches at different universities all over Europe.

During his three years at MEF University, where – as the world’s first and only university – each course was given in compliance with the Flipped Classroom teaching approach, Prof. Künnecke produced professional and engaging pre-class videos to enhance learning experiences and improve results and he became one of Europe’s leading experts in flipped teaching. In times of the need for distance teaching due the Covid-19 pandemic, he developed his own successful VWZ distance teaching approach combining the tools of explanatory Videos, constant and easy accessible communication via WhatsApp and regular virtual meetings on Zoom.

Prof. Eleonora Rosati is the course director and main teacher for our summer course Fashion and intellectual property law.

Eleonora Rosati is an Italian-qualified lawyer (avvocato), Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Market Law (IFIM) and the Co-Director of the LLM in European Intellectual Property Law at Stockholm University. See Eleonora's full bio on the following page:

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Dr. Amrita Bahri is the course director and main teacher for our summer course World Trade Law.

 

Dr. Amrita Bahri is Associate Professor of International Trade Law at ITAM and Co-Chair Professor for WTO Chair Program (Mexico). Amrita is the Founding Chair of International Trade & Investment Law Research Group (Law Schools Global League, LSGL) and Founding Member of the South Asian International Economic Law Network (SAIELN). Amrita has published in the areas of international trade law, WTO dispute settlement, public private partnership for capacity-building in emerging economies, regional trade and gender justice. She has authored the monograph Public Private Partnership for WTO dispute settlement: Enabling Developing Countries (Edward Elgar, 2018). Her academic articles are published in prestigious journals including Journal of International Economic Law, World Trade Review, Journal of World Trade, European Journal of International Law, and others. Amrita also serves on the Editorial Board of Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL) and Journal of Law, Market & Innovation (JLMI). Working with ITC’s team, Amrita has designed the very first framework to measure gender-responsiveness of free trade agreements. She explains this framework in ITC’s policy paper titled “Mainstreaming Gender in Free Trade Agreements”.

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Prof. Jill Morrison is the course director and main teacher for our summer course Exploring Intersections of Disability Rights and Reproductive Justice.

Jill C. Morrison is a fellowship program director and visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. She teaches an LL.M. writing course for African women's human rights practitioners. Additionally, she teaches courses focusing on reproductive health, rights, and justice. Jill spent the early years of her career at the National Women's Law Center, a U.S. NGO, working to advance access to reproductive health care. She currently serves on the International Law Community of the D.C. Bar as the Chair of the Immigration and Human Rights Subcommittee. She is a graduate of Rutgers University (B.A.), Yale Law School (J.D.), and Georgetown (LL.M.).

Prof. Eleonora Rosati is the course director and main teacher for our summer course Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Online and Digital Environments.

Eleonora Rosati is an Italian-qualified lawyer (avvocato), Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Market Law (IFIM) and the Co-Director of the LLM in European Intellectual Property Law at Stockholm University. See Eleonora's full bio on the following page:

Eleonora Rosati

Dr. Fabricio Fortese is the course director and main teacher for our summer course Introduction to International Commercial Arbitration Law.

Fabricio Fortese is the Director of Mooting Activities at the Department of Law, Stockholm University, where he has taught courses in international dispute resolution since 2014. In recent years, he has held a Visiting Scholar position at Columbia Law and a Fellow Visiting Research position at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on international arbitration law. Specifically, on the allocation, timing and extent of jurisdictional competence between national courts and arbitral tribunals. Also, on the character of judicial review of jurisdictional decisions made by arbitrators.

He is a Fellow of the Charted Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and a Board Member of the Nordic-Baltic Chapter of the Spanish Arbitration Club (CEA). He also has experience in the resolution of cross-border disputes, focusing on international trade, trade finance and trade insurance, finance, project finance and disputes involving insolvent entities.

Fabricio was educated in Argentina, the United Kingdom and Sweden. He holds a Law degree from Buenos Aires University, an LLM in International and Comparative Dispute Resolution from the Queen Mary University of London, an LLM in International Commercial Arbitration (ICAL), and a PhD from Stockholm University.

Fabricio’s recent publications include Arbitration in Argentina (editor, Kluwer Law 2020), and Finances in International Arbitration, Liber Amicorum for Patricia Shaughnessy (co-editor, Kluwer Law 2019).

Assoc. Prof. Dovilė Gailiūtė-Janušonė is the course director and main teacher for our summer course Human Rights in the Digital Age.

Dr. Dovile Gailiute-Janusone serves as Associate professor at the Institute of International and EU Law at Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania), where she currently teaches the courses on International Protection of Human Rights and Public International Law. Dovile completed her PhD on the right to housing and continues her research on various aspects of human rights, including right to private life, freedom of religion, socio-economic rights, etc. She served as a trainee at the European Court of Human Rights and developed her research skills during fellowships in Ireland, Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Dovile is a co-author of several books on human rights, also author of more than 10 articles, she also gave presentations in numerous conferences across the world (Indonesia, Georgia, Ukraine, Croatia, etc.). For the period of 2014-2018 Dovile served as a legal expert for Lithuania on FRANET research network, and also participated in a number of research-led initiatives, including projects on the prohibition of forced evictions, protection of migrants’ rights, freedom of religion, etc.

Charlotte Nyangeri (LL.M.) is the course director and main teacher for our summer course Sports Arbitration.

Charlotte Nyangeri is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, Adjunct Lecturer at the Riara Law School, Arbitration Course Facilitator at the Karl Mediation & Arbitration Centre and serves as the current President of the ICAL Alumni Association, appointed in June 2023. She has over five years' multi-sector legal experience in Sports, Commercial Dispute Resolution, Technology and Innovation. She has gathered Arbitration expertise from the ICAL programme alongside specialized courses offered by the Africa Arbitration Academy, an initiative of the Association of Young Arbitrators (AYA).

A former footballer, Charlotte was admitted to the 21st Edition of the prestigious FIFA Master as the First Kenyan female Advocate to gain an in-depth understanding of Sports Management and Sports Law (which includes Sports Arbitration). She has also served as the Project Lead of Africa's first Sports Arbitration Moot and Presiding Arbitrator in the 2022 Sports Arbitration Moot Competition (SAMCO), Malaysia.

In 2020, she was part of the team whose concerted efforts led to ITB Strategies' (Kenya's first SportsTech platform) nomination in the Innovation category of the World Football Summit Awards.

Charlotte also regularly speaks at conferences and seminars on Sports Arbitration.