Elad Uzan | Doctoral Fellow
elad.moses.uzan@gmail.com
Elad is a Ph.D. candidate at the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies at Tel Aviv University, under the supervision of Professor Eyal Benvenisti and Professor Moshe Halbertal. His doctorate deals with moral and legal issues in international law, laws of armed conflict and Just War Theory.   Elad obtained his LL.M at the IDC Herzliya, after receiving his LL.B (Joint degree with Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) in the same institution. In his thesis, he examined the normative and legal dimensions of charity in public corporations, using tools from applied econometrics, statistics and behavioral economics. He is also a graduate (with honors) of the Ruderman MA Program for American Jewish Studies at the University of Haifa.

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Ralph Wilde | Visiting Fellow
ralph.wilde@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Ralph Wilde is a member of the Faculty of Laws at University College London, University of London.  His current research focuses on the extraterritorial application of international human rights law.  His book International Territorial Administration: How Trusteeship and the Civilizing Mission Never Went Away (Oxford University Press, 2008) was awarded the Certificate of Merit (book prize) of the American Society of International Law in 2009.  He is a member of the Executive Board of the European Society of International Law, having previously served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law and, at the International Law Association (ILA), as Co-Rapporteur of the Human Rights Committee, one of the UK representatives on the international Executive Council, Rapporteur of the Study Group on UN Reform, and Joint Honorary Secretary of the British Branch.   Ralph has held visiting positions at the Central European University in Budapest, Melbourne University, NYU, Texas University, UCLA, Yale Law School, and the Fundação Casa Rui Barbosa, Rio de Janeiro.  He has been awarded grants for his research from the UK Arts and Humanities Council, the British Academy and the Nuffield Foundation; a Research Fellowship and the Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust; and a ‘Starting Grant’ (in the ‘Consolidator’ Category) from the European Research Council, the EU’s academic research funding body. More information: http://www.laws.ucl.ac.uk/people/ralph-wilde/

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Ester Herlin-Karnell | Visiting Fellow
e.herlinkarnell@vu.nl
Ester Herlin-Karnell is Professor of EU Constitutional Law and Justice and a University Research Chair at VU University Amsterdam. She holds degrees from Oxford University (DPhil), King’s College London (LLM) and Stockholm University (LLM). Ester has recently been an Emile Noel Fellow at New York University (2013), visiting Senior Grotius Scholar at Michigan University Law School (2014) as well as a visiting fellow at the WZB, Berlin Social Science Centre in the Rule of Law Centre (spring 2014 and 2015 respectively).  Ester’s current research interests lie in EU constitutional law, constitutional law and political theory, EU criminal law, EU Area of Freedom Security and Justice, and transnational risk regulation. In 2012 she received a personal research grant funded by the Netherlands Scientific Organisation for a research project entitled ‘Balancing the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in a Multi-Speed European Union’ (2013-2015) and she is currently working on a monograph for this project.   Her recent publications include a monograph on the constitutional dimension of European criminal law (Hart publishing, 2012) and numerous articles on the AFSJ, EU criminal law, constitutional aspects of EU law and on regulatory market based challenges in the EU’s fight against financial crimes. She is also the co-author (with C Semmelmann) of Advanced EU law in context (forthcoming Hart publishing 2017) and of (with N Ryder) Market manipulation and the financial crisis: Regulatory challenges and responses in United States of America, the European Union and the United Kingdom, (forthcoming Hart Publishing 2018) as well as the co-editor (with M Fletcher & C Matera) of The European Union as an Area of 
Freedom, Security and Justice (forthcoming Routledge 2016).

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Tamar Megiddo | Doctoral Fellow
tamar.megiddo@law.nyu.edu
Tamar Megiddo is a J.S.D. candidate at New York University (NYU) School of Law. She holds an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from NYU School of Law, and an LL.B. in Law and the Humanities (Amirim Honors Program) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2009-2011 Tamar clerked for Israeli Supreme Court Justice Ayala Procaccia. Tamar’s doctoral dissertation explores the role that individual people play in the practice of international law within their states. It argues that individuals’ participation in the practice of international law is more widespread than regularly acknowledged (that actually, every one of us can influence the way our states operate under international law), and that appreciating the breadth of individual practice is crucial to understanding international law’s traction in the domestic sphere. The dissertation argues, further, that international law – as law – does indeed enjoy such traction in that it serves, for participants in national policymaking processes, as a distinct factor to be taken into account when formulating national policy.

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