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Шашихина Тамара Викторовна

Занимаемая должность
Директор Европейского учебного института МГИМО (с октября 2012 г.), старший преподаватель кафедры европейского права МГИМО.

Высшее образование
МГИМО МИД России, Международно-правовой факультет, отделение торгового права.

Знание языков: английский, французский

Преподавательская деятельность

старший преподаватель кафедры европейского права МГИМО, специалист в области корпоративного и предпринимательского права Европейского союза. Ведет курсы по корпоративному праву ЕС, акционерному праву ЕС и правовому регулированию предпринимательской деятельности в ЕС на отделении бакалавриата Международно-правового факультета, на отделении подготовки магистров и второго высшего образования Института европейского права, на отделении подготовки магистров по направлению «Право ЕС» в ЕУИ, а также на факультетах ФПЭК (ранее ИВЭС) и МИЭП. Осуществляет научное руководство выпускными и магистерскими работами по тематике специализации.

Круг научных интересов: европейское право, корпоративное право России и ЕС, правовое регулирование предпринимательской деятельности в России и ЕС, гражданское и торговое право зарубежных стран, договорное право России, ЕС и Франции.

Профессиональная деятельность

С 1999 г. по н.в. занимает должность старшего преподавателя кафедры европейского права МГИМО.
2004-2007 гг. — зам. директора Института европейского права МГИМО.
2007-2014 гг. — директор Института европейского права МГИМО.
2012-н.в. — директор Европейского учебного института МГИМО.
В 2010-2011 гг. — Уполномоченный МО в пунктах проведения Единого государственного экзамена.
2014-н.в. является заместителем председателя Комиссии по международному сотрудничеству Ассоциация юристов России.
2014-н.в. — эксперт Антикоррупционной академической инициативы Управления ООН по наркотикам и преступности.
2015-н.в. — член Комиссии по соблюдению требований к служебному поведению федеральных государственных гражданских служащих Управления Федерального казанчейства и урегулированию конфликта интересов.
2015-н.в. — член Аттестационной комиссии Управления Федерального казанчейства.
2015-н.в. — член Конкурсных комиссий Управления Федерального казанчейства.
2015-н.в. представляет ректора МГИМО А.В.Торкунова в бюро Междисциплинарного совета по координации научного и учебно-методического обеспечения противодействия коррупции.
Апрель 2016-н.в. — член Комиссии МГИМО МИД России по противодействию (профилактике) коррупции.

Имеет государственные награды и благодарности, в т.ч.:

  • Благодарность Президента Российской Федерации за заслуги в научно-педагогической деятельности и подготовке высококвалифицированных специалистов (02.01.2011 №1-рп).
  • Почётный знак «ХХ лет КМД СФ ФС РФ» (2014).
  • Почётный юбилейный знак МИД России (2014).
  • Благодарственное письмо за профессионализм и организацию курсов по апробации результатов ИОП «Управление в российских и международных организациях» (Федеральное агентство по науке и инновациям) (2008).
  • Грамота «Лучший социальный проект в сфере образования» (Всероссийский фестиваль социальных программ «СоДействие») (2009).
  • Благодарственное письмо «За активное участие в деле укрепления мира, согласия, сотрудничества и взаимопонимания» (Федерация мира и согласия (ФМС), международная общественная организация, имеющая консультативный статус при Экономическом и Социальном Совете ООН) (2009).
  • Благодарственное письмо главы департамента по коррупции и экономическим преступлениям Отдела по вопросам международных договоров Управления ООН по наркотикам и преступности Д.Влассиса за проведение Академического симпозиума Антикоррупционной академической инициативы (ААИ) 30-31.10.2015 г. (2016).
  • Благодарственное письмо генерального директора Генерального директората Совета Европы по правам человека и верховенству закона Ф.Буайя за проведение краткосрочных курсов повышения квалификации «Основные концепции противодействия коррупции и отмыванию денежных средств» 24-28 октября 2016 г. (2016).

Осуществляет руководство подготовкой и проведением ежегодных курсов повышения квалификации для государственных служащих и судей, в т.ч. по проблематике защиты прав человека (с 2008 г. по н.в., совместно с Советом Европы) и противодействия коррупции и отмыванию денежных средств (с 2010 г. по н.в., совместно с Советом Европы).
Август, 2014 г. (г. Вена, Австрия) — участник первого тренинга по Антикоррупционной академической инициативе УНП ООН.
Октябрь, 2015 г. — осуществляла руководство подготовкой и проведением Первого Антикоррупционного академического симпозиума в рамках реализации Антикоррупционной академической инициативы Управления ООН по наркотикам и преступности. Итоги Симпозиума были представлены на Шестой сессии Конференции государств-участников Конвенции ООН против коррупции, состоявшейся 2-6 ноября 2015 г. в г. Санкт-Петербург.
Ноябрь, 2015 г. — член Делегации от России на 6-й сессии Конференции государств-участников Конвенции ООН против коррупции, г. Санкт-Петербург. 4 ноября 2015 г. в рамках 6-й сессии состоялось специальное мероприятие (Special Event), посвящённое Антикоррупционной академической инициативе, где Т.Шашихина представила основные итоги и рекомендации, принятые участниками Первого симпозиума ААИ.
12-14 апреля 2016 г. — участник второго заседания экспертной группы ААИ в г. Доха, Катар. По итогам переговоров с представителями УНП ООН было принято решение, что работа по переводу на русский язык и адаптации Модельного курса УНП ООН по противодействию коррупции будет вестись на базе ЕУИ МГИМО под руководством Т.Шашихиной.

Является автором научных публикаций публикаций, в т.ч.:

  • Комментарий к Федеральному закону от 3 июля 2016 г. №230-ФЗ "О защите прав и законных интересов физических лиц при осуществлении деятельности по возврату просроченной задолженности и о внесении изменений в Федеральный закон «О микрофинансовой деятельности и микрофинансовых организациях» / Р.М.Ахмедов, О.С.Борисов, Е.Н.Кондрат, И.В.Рыжих, Т.В.Шашихина. — М.: Юстицинформ, 2017. — 180 с.
  • Комментарий к Федеральному закону от 29 декабря 2014 г. №482-ФЗ «О внесении изменений в Федеральный закон “О несостоятельности (банкротстве)” и Кодекс Российской Федерации об административных правонарушениях» (Постатейный) // М.: Юстицинформ, 2015. — 188 с., ISBN 978-5-7205-1277-4
  • Европейское право. Право Европейского Союза и правовое обеспечение защиты прав человека: Учебник для вузов — 3-е изд.,пересмотр. и доп. (ГРИФ) /Энтин Л.М. Норма: ИНФРА-М, 2013. — 960 с.
  • Шашихина Т.В. Корпоративное право ЕС / Т.В.Шашихина // Европейское право: право Европейского Союза и правовое обеспечение защиты прав человека: учебник для вузов. 3-е изд., пересмотр. и доп. — М.: Норма: Инфра-М, 2011.
  • Шашихина Т.В. Субъекты административно-правового регулирования жилищного кредитования в России / Т.В.Шашихина // Право и жизнь. — 2009. — №131(5).
  • Шашихина Т.В. Государственная политика в сфере жилищного кредитования в Российской Федерации / Т.В.Шашихина // Современное право. — 2009. — №3(1).
  • Шашихина Т.В. Формы и методы административно-правового регулирования жилищного кредитования / Т.В.Шашихина // Право и жизнь. — 2009. №132(6).
  • Шашихина Т.В. Корпоративное право ЕС / Т.В.Шашихина // Европейское право: право Европейского Союза и правовое обеспечение защиты прав человека : учебник для вузов / рук. авт. кол., отв. ред. Л.М.Энтин ; МГИМО (У) МИД РФ, Ин-т европейского права. — 2-е изд., пересмотр. и доп. — М.: Норма, 2005. — XX, 939 с. — ISBN 5-89123-918-3. — С. 615-653.
  • Тенденции Российско-Европейских отношений. Стратегические и практические аспекты гармонизации законодательства РФ и ЕС. Часть II / А.А.Наку, Т.В.Шашихина. — М.: РЕЦЭП, 2005. — 56 с.
  • Шашихина Т.В. Не доходом единым / Т.В.Шашихина // Европа. — 2004. — №2, февраль.
  • Корпоративное право ЕС. Учебное пособие / Т.В.Шашихина и коллектив авторов. — Киев: Киевский институт международных отношений им. Тараса Шевченко, 2004.
  • Shashikhina T. Vers la creation d’un droit europeen des contrats / T.Shashikhina // Сборник материалов конференции, посвященный 200-летию Гражданского кодекса Франции. — М.: МГИМО, 2004.
  • Шашихина Т.В. Новые типы договоров в современном гражданском праве Франции / Т.В.Шашихина // Журнал российского права. — 1998. — №3. — С. 117-125.

Другая деятельность

Благотворительная деятельность

Курсы повышения квалификации:

  • «Мультимедийные технологии». МГИМО
  • «Основы преподавание права, политики и экономики ЕС». Колледж Европы, г. Брюгге, Бельгия
  • «Использование активных методов преподавания в учебном процессе», МГИМО

Увлечения / хобби: кулинария, психология.


SHASHIKHINA Tamara V.
Director, European Studies Institute

EDUCATION
1996-1999 — Postgraduate Education, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the  Ministry of Foregn Affairs of Russia
1991-1996 — International Law school, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the  Ministry of Foregn Affairs of Russia, summa cum laude

EXPERIENCE
04.2016-present — Anti-corruption Commission of MGIMO University, Member
2015-present — Commission on observance of requirements to office behaviour of Federal State Civil Servants of the office of the Russian Federal Treasury and on settlement of conflict of interests, Member
2015-present — Certifying Commission of the office of Russian Federal Treasury, Member
2015-present — Certifying Commission of the Federal Treasury Department, Member
2015-present — Selection Boards of the Federal Treasury Department, Member
2015-present — Bureau of the Interdisciplinary Council on coordination of scientific and educational and methodological anti-corruption support, Representative of the rector of MGIMO
2014-present — Commission for international cooperation of the Association of lawyers of Russia, Deputy Chairman
2014-present — Anti-corruption Academic Initiative of the United Nations Office On Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Expert
2012-present — European Studies Institute, MGIMO University, Director
2010-2011 — Authorised person by the Moscow Region in the points of carrying out of Unified state examination
2007-2014 — Institute of European law, MGIMO University, Director
2004-2007 — Institute of European law, MGIMO University, Deputy Director
1999-present — Chair of European law, MGIMO University, senior lecturer
1994-1999 — ITAR TASS, translator
1994-1999 — Association France – Astorat, lawyer

AWARDS
Honorary Certificate of the President of the Russian President for merits in academic activities and in training of highly qualified specialists (02.01.2011 No. 1-rp), 2011
Plaque of Honour «ХХ Anniversary of Council of the Federation Committee for Foreign Affairs», 2014
Jubilee Plaque of Honour of the Russian MFA, 2014
Letter of Gratitude for the competence and training organization of the evaluation of the results of an innpvative educational programme “Menagement in Russian and International Organizations” (Federal Science and Innovation Agency), 2008
Diploma "Best Social Project in the Sphere Of Education" (All-Russian Festival Of Social Programs "Assistance"), 2009
Letter of Gratitude "For Active Participation in Peacebuilding, Harmony, Cooperation and Understanding" (International Federation for Peace and Conciliation, international NGO in consultive satus with UN ECOSOC and participatory status with the Council of Europe), 2009
Letter of Gratitude from Dimitri Vlassis, Chief of the Corruption and Economic Crime Branch of UNODC with the appreciation for help in the organization and hosting the Anti-corruption Academic Symposium, October 30-31, 2015; 2016
Letter of Gratitude from Philippe Boillat, Director of Directorat Directorate General of the Human Rights and Rule of Law, Council of Europe, with the appreciation of the support in the organization of CoE’s annual training on Basic Anti-Corruption and Anti-Money Laundering Concepts, October 24-28, 2016; 2016

KNOWLEDGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
French, Fluent
English, Fluent
Russian, Mother tongue

PARTICIPATION IN CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS
2012-present — Social Project “Future of Russia”
2008-present — Board of Trustees of the Charitable Fund “Live”, Member

ORGANIZATION OF ACADEMIC EVENTS
2010-present — Annual training for Russian civil servants and judges on the issues of anti-courruption and anti-money laundering with the Council of Europe
2008-present — Annual training for Russian civil servants and judges on the issues of the protection of human rights in cooperation with the Council of Europe

PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL EVENTS
August, 2014 — First training of Anti-corruption Academic Initiative, UNODC, participant (Vienna, Austria)
October, 2015 — Preparation and holding of the First Anti-corruption Academic Symposium in the frame of Anti-corruption Academic Initiative, UNODC.
The results of the Symposium were presented during the Sixth Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption, held on 02-06 November, 2015 in St.-Petersburg.
Novemder, 2015 — Sixth Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption, St.-Petersburg, member of the Russian delegation
November 04, 2015 — A Special Event  dedicated to the Anti-Corruption Academic Initiative in the frame of the Sixth Conference, participant;
main results and recommendations, adopted by the participants of the First Anti-corruption Academic Symposium, were presented by T. Shashikhina
12-14 April, 2016 — Second meeting of the Expert Group of the Anti-Corruption Academic Initiative in Doha, Qatar, participant;
following the results of the negotiations with the representatives of the UNODC a decision was taken to carry out the work of the translation into Russian and implementation of the Model anti-corruption course  on the basis of the Anti-corruption Center, created at the ESI MGIMO, and under the direction of T. Shashikhina.

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Commentary to the Federal law of 3 July 2016 No. 230-FZ “On protection of rights and legitimate interests of individuals when exercising  the recovery of overdue debts and on amendments to the Federal law “Concerning Microfinance Activities and Microfinance Organizations”/ R.M. Akhmedov, O.S. Borisov, E.N. Kondrat, I.V. Ryzhikh, T.V. Shshikhina. - M.: Justitsinform, 2017. - 180 p.
  2. Commentary to the Federal law of 29 December 2014 No. 482-FZ “On amendments to the Federal law “Concerning Insolvency (Bankruptcy)”and to the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offences (Paragraph-to-paragraph) // M.: Justitsinform, 2015. – 188 p., ISBN 978-5-7205-1277-4
  3. European Law. The Law of the European Union and the Protection of Human Rights: Textbook – Third Edition, revised and enlarged. / Entin L.M. – Norma: INFRA-М, 2013. – 960 p.
  4. Shashikhina T.V. EU Company Law / Т.V. Shashikhina // European Law: the Law of the European Union and the Protection of Human Rights:  Textbook – Third Edition, revised and enlarged. / Entin L.M. – Norma: INFRA-М, 2011.
  5. Shashikhina T.V. The subjects of administrative and legal regulation of housing financing in Russia / Т.V. Shashikhina // “Law and Life”. - 2009. – No. 131 (5).
  6. Shashikhina T.V. State policy in the sphere of housing financing in the Russian Federation / Т.V. Shashikhina // “Modern Law”. - 2009. – No. 3 (1).
  7. Shashikhina T.V. Forms and Measures of administrative and legal regulation of housing financing / Т.V. Shashikhina // “Law and Life” - 2009. No. 132 (6).
  8. Shashikhina T.V. EU Company Law / Т.V. Shashikhina // European Law: the Law of the European Union and the Protection of Human Rights:  Textbook: Second Edition, revised and enlarged – М.: Norma, 2005. – XX, 939 p. – ISBN 5-89123-918-3. – 615-653 pp.
  9. The trends in Russia-EU. Strategic and practical aspects of Russian and EU legislation harmonization. Part II / А.А.Naku, Т.V. Shashikhina. - М.: RETSEP, 2005. - 56 p.
  10. Shashikhina T.V. Not by revenue alone. / Т.V. Shashikhina // “Europe”. - 2004. – No. 2, February.
  11. EU Company Law. Educational Book / Т.V. Shashikhina and others. - Kyiv: Institute of International Relations (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), 2004.
  12. Shashikhina T. Vers la creation d’un droit europeen des contrats / T. Shashikhina // The collection of materials of conference, dedicated to the 200th Anniversary of the French Civil Code. - М.: MGIMO, 2004.
  13. Shashikhina T.V. New Contract Types in Contemporary Civil Law of France / Т.V. Shashikhina // Journal of Russian Law. - 1998. – No. 3. - 117-125 pp.

Барабанов Олег Николаевич

Заместитель директора по научной работе Европейского учебного института МГИМО, профессор кафедры интеграционных процессов.

Почетное звание: профессор РАН.

Наименование специальности по диплому: историк, преподаватель со знанием иностранных языков (исторический факультет МГУ им. М.В.Ломоносова).

Данные о повышении квалификации: неоднократно принимал участие в курсах повышения квалификации в Колледже Европы (Брюгге) и других российских и зарубежных образовательных центрах.

Преподаваемые дисциплины
  • Европейская безопасность и ОВПБ ЕС.
  • История европейской цивилизации.
  • Политические системы и политические культуры стран-членов ЕС.
  • Глобальное управление.

Общий и стаж работы по специальности: с 1993 г.
Стаж работы в МГИМО: с 2000 г.

Научные интересы: европейская безопасность, глобальное и региональное надгосударственное управление, теория интеграции, внешняя политика России, история мировой политики.

Prof Dr Oleg Barabanov
Deputy Director for Research at the European Studies Institute;  
Professor at Department of Integration Studies;
Deputy Chairman at the Ph.D.

Board on Political Sciences; Academic Supervisor of the MA Program on EU Politics.

Jean Monnet Chair on Russia-EU Relations.

Honorary Title of Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Jaap de Zwaan

Jaap de Zwaan

Jaap de Zwaan (born 1949 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch lawyer and legal scholar. Since 1998, he is Professor of the Law of the European Union at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He was Director of the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael from 2005 to 2011. From 1979 to 1998, he worked for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He acted as Agent for the Dutch Government in numerous cases before the Court of Justice of the European Communities in Luxembourg. He was involved in the negotiations on and the drafting of several European treaties, such as the Treaties of Accession of Spain and Portugal to the European Communities, the European Single Act and the Treaty of Amsterdam.

He received a law degree from Leiden University in 1972 and attended the College of Europe in Bruges 1972-1973. In 1993 he received a doctorate in law from Groningen University. He was President of the Alumni Association of the College of Europe 1984-1988.

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Marian Paschke

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Marian Paschke

Education
1974-1979 Study of Law at the University of Berlin
1979-1982 Scientific Assistant at the Free University of Berlin
Dec. 1982 Legal doctorate at the Free University of Berlin
June 1989 Habilitation and conferment of venia legendi of civil law, commercial law, protection of industrial property, copyright and media law by the Christian-Albrecht-University of Kiel
 

Scientific Career

1989-1990 Professor of Commercial Law at the Free University of Berlin; lecturer at the University of Heidelberg
1990 Professor of Company and Commercial Law at the University of Heidelberg
since Oct. 1991 Professor of Company, Commercial and Shipping Law at the University of Hamburg, Faculty of Law
since Mai 1996 Director of the Institute of the Law of the Sea and of Maritime Law at the University of Hamburg
since April 1997 Director of the Institute of Commercial Law at the University of Hamburg

Guest lectures, academic positions and distinctions

  • Guest lecturer at the Universities of Budapest (2005), CASS Beijing (1996, 2000, 2011), McGill Montreal (1994), Minsk/Belarus (1999-2003), Moscow/Russia (1998-2002 – Academy of Science, Institute for State and Law), Moscow/Russia (since 2009 - MGIMO), Posen/Poland (2004-2006), Prague/Czech Republic (since 1999), San Francisco/USA (1993), Stellenbosch/RSA (1997, 1998, 2004), St. Petersburg/Russia (since 2002)
  • 1994/95: Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Hamburg
  • since 1996: Member of the Comité Maritime Internationale (CMI), section Germany
  • 2003-2009 Chairman of the German University Teachers Association – District Hamburg
  • 2005 - 2007: Program-Director of the LL.M-Program ASEAN/China-European Business Transactions
  • 2005: conferment of the „doctor honoris causa“-title through the Law Faculty of the St. Kliment Ohridski University Sofia
  • since 2008: Member of the Academy of Science, District Hamburg, Speaker of the working group: Sustainability Strategy for Raw Materials
  • since 2009: Program-Director of the LL.M-Program International and European Business Transactions, State University of St. Petersburg/Hamburg University
  • since 2011: Program-Director of the Maritime Law Program at the Law Faculty of the Hamburg University
  • since 2012 founder and Co-Editor of the Law Journal „Recht der Transportwirtschaft – RdTW“ (Law of Transportation), Beck-Verlag
  • since 2013: Member of the Academy of Science Working Group “Energy System of the Future – ESYS”
  • 2013: Expert of the German parliament in the reform of the German maritime law (3. Seerechtsänderungsgesetz 2013)
  • since 2014: Founder and Co-Editor of the Law Journal „Hamburg Law Review“
  • since 2016: President of the Permanent Arbitration Court of the Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria

Gerhard Hafner

Gerhard Hafner graduated from the Vienna Law Faculty (Dr. iur. 1966) and subsequently studied at the Universities of Paris, The Hague, and Moscow. University assistant since 1970, Univ.-Doz. 1983 (International Law and International Economic Law); Professor at the Vienna Law Faculty since 1990; Visiting Professor in Stanford (1996), Bratislava since 1992, Visiting Professor at the `Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales´ of the University Paris 2 (1997), Lecturer at the Austrian Diplomatic Academy Vienna, M.A.I.S.; University of Krems; Member of the International Law Commission (1997-2001) - First Vice-president of the ILC during the 2001 session; Conciliator at the OSCE Court and Member of its Bureau; former Deputy Chairman of the German Society of International Law; one of five arbitrators in the MOX case (Irland v. United Kingdom), Counsel for Liechtenstein in the case Certain Property(Liechtenstein v. Germany) before the International Court of Justice; Chairman of the Austrian Branch of the International Law Association; Chairman of the ILA Committee on State Succession; Legal Consultant to the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs; Director of the Department of European, International and Comparative Law (University of Vienna); Member of the Governing Board of the European Studies Institute in Moscow.

Research focus
  • Codification of public international law
  • European Law
  • International criminal law
  • Neutrality
  • Public international rules for the prevention of cross-boarder damages and liability
  • Peaceful dispute settlement
  • State succession

Major Publications

  • Europarecht (together with Christoph Thun-Hohenstein and Franz Cede), fifth edition Manz (2005) 270 pp.
  • State Practice Regarding State Immunities - La pratique des Etats concernant les Immunités des Etats, Gerhard Hafner, Marcelo G. Kohen and Susan Breau (eds.), Nijhoff Publishers (2006) 1043 pp.
  • Environmental Issues in the Work of the ILC (together with Holly. L. Pearson, Yearbook of International and Environmental Law, 11 (2000 published in 2001), pp. 3-51.
  • Codification and Progressive Development of International law, in: Franz Cede/Lilly Sucharipa Behrmann (eds.), The United Nations - Law and Practice, TheHague (2001) pp. 143-157.
  • Pros and Cons Ensuing from Fragmentation of International Law, 4 Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 25 (2004), pp. 849-868.
  • Accountability of International Organizations. A Critical View, in: R. St. John Macdonald and D. M. Johnston (eds.), Towards World Constitutionalism, Issues in the Legal Ordering of the World Community, Leiden (2005) pp. 585-630.
  • Remarques sur l’affaire Behrami et Saramati (Cour européenne des droits de l’homme): le statut juridique de la KFOR et de ses actes, 60 Arès 109-120 (2008)

Gerhard Sailler

Gerhard Sailler, an Austrian career Diplomat since 1996, studied history at the University of Graz (Austria), the Université de Rouen (France) and the Universidade do Minho (Portugal). Before entering the Austrian Foreign ministry, he did postgraduate studies at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University in International Relations and worked on research projects in history. In 2008, he earned a PhD in History from Vienna University.

His postings abroad included Tel Aviv, Lisbon, Brussels and Moscow. In Moscow he held the position of Deputy Head of Mission of the Austrian Embassy to Russia and Belarus.

Since the fall semester 2013 he is the Deputy Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.

Dr. Alessandra Arcuri

Alessandra Arcuri is Associate Professor at the Department of International and European Law, Erasmus School of Law. Her research focuses on the global governance of risks and the intersection of international economic law and risk regulation. She has published extensively in the field of risk law, international economic law and law and economics. Arcuri has conducted research in several international institutions: Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence (project on the regulation of organic products); Global Fellow at NYU Law School (project on the precautionary principle); Marie Curie Fellow at Hamburg University (project on the role of Coase’s theory in environmental law); EUR Fellowship at Erasmus University (project on multi-level risk regulation and the WTO). Arcuri is a member of the Research Programme ‘Rethinking the Rule of Law in an Era of Globalisation, Privatisation, and Multiculturalisation’. Besides teaching regularly at the Erasmus School of Law (International Economic Law, Public International Law, Economics of Public Law), Dr. Arcuri has taught courses in several universities, including at the EUI, Florence, the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Sweden, the African Universities in Lomè, Togo, the Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, and the University of Siena.

Dr. Arcuri holds a law degree from La Sapienza University, Rome (cum laude), an LL.M. from Utrecht University (Honourable mention) and a Ph.D. from the Erasmus School of Law (Governing the risks of ultra-hazardous activities: challenges for contemporary legal systems).

Lucian Sauleanu

Graduated from the University of Craiova, “Nicolae Titulescu” Faculty of Law in 1997 and Doctor (PhD) in Law since 2000 with the thesis “”The specific trade/commercial obligations compared to civil obligations”, scientific coordinator Prof. univ. Dr. Ion Dogaru. Member of the Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences from the University of Craiova, with the current title of senior lecturer and teaching the following disciplines: company law and legal banking and stock operations.

Lawyer since 2003, member of the Bucharest Bar and since 2007 member of the Dolj County Bar. Since 1998, arbitrator within the Arbitral Tribunal of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Oltenia “Craiova”.

  • Member of the Fundamental Legal Research Center of Craiova which operates under the auspices of the Romanian Academy.
  • Member of the editorial Board of the Journal of Legal Sciences.
  • Scientific Reviewer of the Publishing House from Craiova.

Author of several studies, lectures and monographs in the field of commercial law including:

  • Companies. General meetings of Shareholders, Ed Hamangiu, Bucharest, 2009
  • Banking Law, Ed. Universul Juridic, Bucharest, 2008 (in collaboration with the assist. Univ. Dr. Lavinia Smarandache and prep. Univ. Alina Dodocioiu)
  • Joint Venture Agreement, Ed Hamangiu, Bucharest, 2009
  • Basics of Civil Law. Special Contracts, Vol IV, Ed. C.H Beck,, Bucharest, 2009, (coordinators Ion Dogaru, Gabriel Olteanu, Lucian Sauleanu)

Friedl Weiss

Professor Emeritus at the Department of European, International Law and Comparative Law, University of Vienna.

Friedl Weiss holds a doctorate in law (1970), as well as an MA in Public International Law and European Law from the University of Cambridge (1974).

He has spent most of his academic career in the UK, previously as a Lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science and held the Chair of International Economic Law and International Organisations at the University of Amsterdam where he also served as Director of the Amsterdam Law School (ALS).

Friedl Weiss has been legal adviser in the EFTA Secretariat as well as legal consultant in GATT. He is member of the ILA Committee on the role of sustainable development in resource management for development and was a member of the ILA Committees on International Law on Sustainable Development and on Foreign Investment.

Research focus
  • European and International (economic) Law
  • International  Organizations, including those of international economic governance and European Union Law
  • WTO Law and GATT

Major recent Publications

  • The Changing Landscape of Global Financial Governance and the Role of Soft Law, with A. Kammel (co.-eds., 2015)
  • Friedl Weiss, Clemens Kaupa, EU Internal Market Law, (CUP, 2014)
  • G.Hafner, A.Kumin, F.Weiss, Das Recht der Europäischen Union, (2013)
  • Sketching "Community Interests" in EU Law, in From Bilateralism to Community Interest, in Essays in Honour of Judge Bruno Simma (2011)
  • WTO-Trade in Goods, Free Circulation of Goods, with Silke Steiner, in Rüdiger Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (2011)
  • Inherent Powers of National and International Courts: the Practice of the Iran-US Claims Tribunal, in International Investment Law for the 21st Century, Essays in Honour of Christoph Schreuer (2009)
  • The Principle of Non-Discrimination in International Economic Law: A Conceptual and Historical Sketch, in International Law between Universalism and Fragmentation, Festschrift in Honour of Gerhard Hafner (2008)

Christina Binder

Christina Binder holds the Chair for International Law and International Human Rights Law at the Bundeswehr University Munich. Before, she was University Professor of International Law at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna and Deputy Director of the interdisciplinary Research Centre “Human Rights”. Christina Binder was a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Center for International Law in Cambridge (2007-08), at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (2008-10, repeatedly afterwards) and at the McGill University in Montréal (summer 2015). She is member of the ILA Committees on the Implementation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and on Human Rights in Times of Emergency. Christina is member of the Executive Boards of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) and of the Executive Board of the European Inter-University Center for Human Rights and Democratization (EIUC) where she also acts as Representative of the Vienna University and National Director for Austria.

In addition to her classes in Munich, Christina teaches at the University of Vienna as well as international human rights law at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. She also taught human rights at the University of Yogyakarta (Indonesia), the Renmin University of China (Beijing) and the PUC (Sao Paolo, Brazil) and was a short term visiting professor at the Bocconi University in Milan (Italy), the University Grenoble Alpes (France), the University of New South Wales (UNSW) (Australia) and at the Mekelle University in Ethiopia. Christina has likewise worked as legal and electoral expert for election observation and assessment missions, including Ecuador and Rwanda (with the EU as well as Uzbekistan and Estonia with OSCE/ODIHR. She also trained officials from the Sudanese Ministry of Justice in electoral matters for MPI/UNDP. She likewise acts as electoral expert for the Council of Europe Congress of Local and Regional Authorities.

Luis Simon

Luis Simón is research professor at the Institute for European Studies and director of the Brussels office of the Elcano Royal Institute. His current research interests include the evolution of U.S. geostrategy and its impact upon the transatlantic relationship; European geopolitics and security; the future of NATO; and changing geostrategic dynamics in Asia and their implications for Europe. Luis is a frequent lecturer on geopolitical and strategic affairs at several universities and defence colleges, and his research has appeared in prestigious journals, such as Security Studies, International Affairs, The Journal of Strategic Studies, Geopolitics, Survival, Orbis or The RUSI Journal. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and the Baltic Defence College, and a member of the editorial board of Parameters: The US Army War College Quarterly. Earlier, he was a postdoctoral FWO Fellow at the School of International and Public Affairs (Columbia University) and a visiting fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies (Johns Hopkins University). Luis holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of London, and a Master’s degree from the Institute d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).