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Mgr. et Mgr. he is a PhD Candidate at the European Law Department, Charles University Law Faculty, and currently Max-Planck Fellow in Heidelberg. He holds a bachelor degree in Political Sciences, master degree in International Relations and bachelor and master degree in Law. He also studied Law at the University of Athens. Tomáš was awarded the Bernardo Bolzano’s Charles University award for the best master thesis in Law for 2005. He interned the Legislative Department of the Czech Republic Government. He spent short research stays at the universities in e.g. Florence (EUI), Geneva, Maastricht, and Bonn. In 2007/08 Tomáš was visiting research scholar at the University of Michigan. He participated, among others, in the Saarland University’s project on Legitimacy in the EU (fellowship) and the Utrecht University’s PESL project. He also serves as an articling attorney-at-law and external legal adviser to various University and state administrative bodies. He focuses mainly on the EU legislative process and the role of the European Court of Justice in the integration process.
Tanel Kerikmäe is Jean Monnet professor of European Union law and head the Tallinn Law School (Tallinn University of Technology). Tanel has been educated Tartu and Helsinki universities, but also trained at various other institutions with high reputation, such as University of Edinburgh, Oxford (departement of continuing education)/ George Washington University , Cambridge, The Danish Centre for Human Rights, Institut International Des Droits De L´Homme in Strassbourg and Institute for Human Rights at Abo Akademi University. He has been expert for various domestic and international institutions e.g. Human Rights Centre in Estonia, Education Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency of the European Commission, member of several editorial boards (Baltic Yearbook of International Law) and author of more than 50 publications. Tanel Kerikmäe is president of Estonian European Community Studies Association and actively participates at EU related forums (such as European Law Faculties Association). He has been working for several universities as visiting scholar and has been Erasmus exchange professor in Essex, Toulon and other universities.
Dr. Piotr Mikuli is a constitutional lawyer, an adjunct professor in the Chair of Comparative Constitutional Law of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. He graduated from Warsaw University in 2001 and in 2004 he defended his PhD thesis at the Jagiellonian University. His interests include constitutional and administrative justice, political systems and constitutional principles in comparative perspective. He is the author and co-author of a number of publications dealing with Polish and foreign constitutional issues. Dr Mikuli spent the full academic year 2006/2007 in the Institute of European and Comparative Law of Oxford University as a visiting professor and a grant holder of the Foundation for Polish Science and “Europaeum” – the association of 10 leading European universities.
After obtaining his first law degree, the Magister iuris, at the University of Salzburg (Austria), Professor Morawa completed his graduate education at the George Washington University School of Law (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.), where he obtained Master of Law (LL.M.) and Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) degrees.
Patrick Nasciuti obtained his Bachelor of Science in Business Law at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, in 2008. He works for the University of Lucerne as Project Assistant.
Katrin Nyman-Metcalf is Professor of International and Comparative Law at Audentes International University in Tallinn. Her PhD from Uppsala University, Sweden (1999) deals with the law of outer space including legal issues related to the use of space for communications. In 1998-1999 Dr. Nyman-Metcalf was Head of the Legal Department of the Independent Media Commission (later Communications Regulatory Agency) in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina and later (until 2004) active as legal advisor to the Agency. Dr. Nyman-Metcalf has published extensively on international and EU law. She is an Estonian national, resident in Tallinn and speaks seven languages.
Master of Law, obtained her degree at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) in 2000. From 2000 to 2003 she worked for the Office of the Commissioner for Educational Rights, in 2003-2004 she worked as the Ministerial Commissioner for Children’s Rights. Since 2000 she has been lecturing constitutional law at Eötvös Loránd University, since 2005 as an assistant lecturer. She is specialized in human rights protection, especially children’s rights and ombudsman-institutions.
Dr. Kyriaki Topidi obtained her Maîtrise en Droit from the Robert Schuman Faculty of Law in Strasbourg, in 1999. She then completed a Master programme in International Studies at the University of Birmingham. In that context, her dissertation on Minority Rights in Europe was awarded the classification of ‘Distinction’. In 2001, she commenced her scholarship-funded doctoral research (PhD) at the Institute of European Studies of Queen’s University Belfast (N. Ireland) in the area of EU law and minority rights within the framework of enlargement to Central & Eastern Europe. Her thesis was completed in 2006.
Elena Simina Tanasescu is Professor and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest. She is Romania's representative with the EU's Fundamental Rights' Agency (FRA) and the Director of the Centre for Constitutional Law and Political Institutions (Bucharest, Romania). Prof. Tanasescu has acted as expert and pre-accession adviser to various bodies including the Delegation of the European Commission in Romania. She has taught and published extensively on Romanian and comparative constitutional law, EU law and the legal protection of human rights.
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