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Jean d’Aspremont

Jean d’Aspremont is Professor of International Law at the University of Manchester and at Sciences Po School of Law. He is General Editor of the Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law and Director of Oxford International Organizations (OXIO). He is series editor of the Melland Schill Studies in International Law. He has written extensively on international law as well as international legal theory. His work has been translated in several languages including Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Persian.

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Iain Scobbie

Professor Scobbie joined the School in September 2013 as Professor of Public International Law. Previously, he was the Sir Joseph Hotung Research Professor at SOAS, University of London. He studied at Edinburgh, Cambridge, and the Australian National University. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on legal reasoning at the International Court of Justice. Professor Scobbie specialises in international humanitarian law, international adjudication, and the theory of international law. He is a founder and Director of the Manchester International Law Centre.

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Yenkong Ngangjoh-Hodu

Yenkong Ngangjoh-Hodu is a Professor of International Law and was Head of the Manchester University Law Department from 2019 until 2022. He specialises in international law as well as international economic law, international development law, and Artificial Intelligence and the Law. His forthcoming monograph, Echoes of Prosperity and Regional Integration in the Global South, is under contract with Cambridge University Press. His book, African Perspectives on International Investment Law, was published in 2021 and has been widely cited by both academics and practitioners.

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Emma Nyhan

Dr Emma Nyhan is a law lecturer at the University of Manchester. She is an interdisciplinary scholar of law and society, whose work bridges international law, legal and social anthropology, and post-colonial studies. Before joining the University, Emma was a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Law School and the Australian National University’s School of Regulation and Global Governance. She has a PhD in Comparative, European and International Laws from the European University Institute.

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Yusra Suedi

Yusra Suedi is a Lecturer in International Law at the University of Manchester. She holds a doctorate in International Law from the University of Geneva for The Individual in the Law and Practice of the International Court of Justice (forthcoming with CUP). Yusra has worked for the United Nations and international courts and tribunals. She has assisted counsel acting for governments and organisations before the International Court of Justice and has published in journals such as The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals and the Leiden Journal of International Law.

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John Haskell

John D. Haskell is a Chair/Professor at the University of Manchester Law School. His current research focuses on cultures of expertise across the intersections of finance, religion and technology in relation to global law and management.

Area of expertise: law and culture, law and political economy, law and religion, law and technology, legal history, legal theory.

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Justina Uriburu

Dr Justina Uriburu is a lecturer in international law. Prior to joining the University of Manchester, Justina was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, where researched the influence of law firms on states’ litigation decisions and legal claims. Justina is an international legal scholar specialising in public international law, international adjudication and the history and theory of international law. She also has experience in international adjudication and worked as a Law Clerk on international law cases.

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Emma Scali

Dr. Emma Scali is a Lecturer in Public International Law. Prior to joining the University of Manchester, she was a lecturer in public international law and the Director of LLMs in International Law and International Human Rights at Birmingham City University where taught EU Law and supervised research projects. Additionally, Dr. Scali teaches courses on human rights at Roma Tre University and IES Abroad London. Currently, she serves as a consultant researcher for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, South-East Asia Regional Office.

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Jack Kenny

Jack Kenny is a research fellow at the University of Manchester. Prior to joining the University of Manchester, Jack was a research leader in international law at British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He completed his DPhil at Oxford on The Principle of Sovereignty and State Cyber Operations, supervised by Professor Catherine Redgwell and Dr. Efthymios Papastavridis. Supported by UKRI funding, he also holds an LL.B in Law with European Study and an LL.M in International and European Law.

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Petra Larsen

Dr Petra Larsen is a lecturer and researcher in international law at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on the law of the sea with a special focus on the emerging global legal framework on the commercial exploitation of deep sea minerals in the international seabed. Dr Larsen teaches public international law, public law, EU law, human rights, jurisprudence, tort law, and legal system & skills. She also supervises undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations. She was awarded a HEA Fellow Accreditation in February 2021.

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Niyoosha Shishehgar

Dr Niyoosha Shishehgar’s research and teaching focuses on international trade and investment law, as well as international commercial dispute resolution. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester in November 2023; her dissertation examined the potential establishment of a multilateral investment court within international investment dispute settlement. Areas of expertise: international investment law, commercial dispute resolution, international trade law, international human rights, and global economic law.

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Nicolette Butler

Dr Nicolette Butler is a Senior Lecturer in Law. She joined the University of Manchester in October 2013. Her research interests lie broadly within the spheres of international economic law and international commercial arbitration. Nicolette has published widely in these areas. She has also acted as the principal investigator on a number of funded projects, including ASPECT and ESRC Impact Accelerator funds. She has advised the EU Economic and Social Committee as well as a number of non-governmental organisations on various matters relating to trade and investment.

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Abubakri Yekini

Dr Abubakri Yekini is a Law Lecturer at the University of Manchester. He earned his PhD from the Centre for Private International Law, University of Aberdeen, under the supervision of Professor Paul Beaumont and the late Professor Jonathan Fitchen. His current research focuses on the progressive development of private international law in Africa. He is one of the founding members of the Nigeria Group on Private International Law (NGPIL). Dr Yekini is an Assistant Editor for the Ethiopian Yearbook of International Law.

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