The convenors of IGLRC 2016:

Emma Perot
Co-Convenor
Contact: iglrc@iglrc.com

Emma is a first year PhD student researching personality rights under the supervision of Professor Tanya Aplin. Before beginning her PhD, she obtained her LLM in Intellectual Property Law (Distinction) at UCL and her LLB (First class honours) at the University of Kent. She is interested in all aspects of IP law as well as corporate governance. Emma has previously acted as a student director for Own-It, a pro bono organisation which provides advice to the creative sector. She is honoured to be co-convening the 10th annual IGLRC and hopes the theme will attract researchers from a wide variety of backgrounds with innovative solutions to the challenges of the transnational legal landscape.

Estelle Marks
Co-Convenor
Contact: iglrc@iglrc.com

Estelle is a first year PhD candidate researching Transnational Policing Relationships in the European Arrest Warrant System under the supervision of Professor Ben Bowling. She obtained her LLB (First Class Honours) at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London and an MSc in Criminology & Criminal Justice at Green Templeton College, Oxford. Estelle’s research interests focus on policing powers both domestically and in the transnational realm, she has a particular interest in the relationship between law and policing practice and is the co-author of two papers concerning police stop and search powers. She is honoured to be working with Emma as co-convenors of the 10th IGLRC and looks forward to welcoming a vibrant intellectual community to King’s in April 2016.

The IGLRC 2016 Committee:

Luigi Lonardo
Submission Officer

Luigi Lonardo is a PhD student at King’s College London. His research focuses on the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union. He holds an LLM in EU Law (Distinction) from King’s College London and a law degree (cum laude) from the University of Bologna.

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Arthur Guerra de Andrade Filho
Submission Officer

Arthur Guerra de Andrade Filho has been a PhD student at King’s College London Law School since January 2015. His research, under the academic supervision of Professor Keith Ewing and Dr. Christopher Townley, focuses on political finance and competition laws. He holds a law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, where he later worked as teaching assistant; and an LLM (Master of Laws) from the University of California, Berkeley, where he also worked as associate editor at the Berkeley Business Law Journal.

Adi Goldiner
Funding Officer

Adi Goldiner is a first year PhD candidate studying the intersection between perceptions of human rights and construction of groups’ shared identities under the supervision of Dr. Ori Herstein. Adi studied law at Tel Aviv University in Israel (LLB) and at Columbia University in the City of New York (LLM). Adi has served as a lawyer specialising in anti-discrimination law in the Israeli public sector, with both governmental and non-governmental organisations.

Ezequiel Monti
Marketing Officer

Ezequiel Monti is a first year PhD student researching on the normativity of law under the supervision of Dr. Ori Herstein. He obtained his law degree at the University of Buenos Aires (with honours) and an MJur (Distinction) at the University of Oxford. He is interested in legal, moral and political philosophy, and is currently working on an account of legal obligations in terms of second-personal reasons for action.

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