Current Visiting Fellows
Sidsel Engmann Juul (2023 - 2024)
Sidsel Engmann Juul is a Ph.D. student at the Centre for Climate Change Law and Governance (CLIMA) at the University of Copenhagen. Her research centers on the interpretive practices of the European Court of Human Rights when it comes to minorities and vulnerable groups.
Her dissertation will be on the Court’s use of the interpretive tool European consensus in terms of the rights and freedoms of minorities and vulnerable groups.
Professor Jens Elo Rytter at the University of Copenhagen and the Head of Research at the Danish Institute of Human Rights, Pernille Boye Koch, supervise the Ph.D. project. Both the university and the Danish Institute for Human Rights finance the project.
Sidsel holds a Master in Laws degree from the University of Copenhagen and has previously worked as a legal advisor at the Danish Institute for Human Rights and the Ministry of Social Affairs.
Kumush Suyunova (2023 - 2024)
Kumush is a PhD candidate in Law at Sant’Anna Scuola Universitaria Superiore in Pisa, Italy. Her research focuses on the derogations filed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, exploring uncertainties and differences in the practices of ECHR parties. Kumush has recently published an article titled “Human Rights Restrictions Prompted by the Covid-19 Pandemic: Uncertainties and Differences in the Practice of ECHR Parties” in the Yearbook of International Disaster Law, Issue No. 5. Beyond her primary focus on pandemic-related derogations, Kumush is deeply interested in the broader implications of human rights issues in the context of public emergencies. Her academic pursuits aim to contribute to a deeper understanding of the intersection between human rights law and public emergencies, with a focus on safeguarding fundamental rights while addressing pressing global challenges.
Please contact the Cluster Director, Professor Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, if you're interested in joining the Unit as a visiting fellow.
Email: dzeh@liverpool.ac.uk
Previous Visiting Fellows
Chryssa Mela (2019 - 2020)
Chryssa Mela joined the International Law and Human Rights Unit of the University of Liverpool in 2019 as an Erasmus trainee. She pursued an LLB at the University of Athens and she did a student exchange at the University of Helsinki for a semester. As a John Lewis Fellow at Humanity in Action NGO, she spent this summer in Atlanta learning about the history of human rights in the American South.
She has a keen interest in asylum law, refugee and migrant rights, and her main front of engagement is the empowerment of those particular groups of people through the provision of free legal aid. To that end, she has interned in the Legal Unit of the Greek Council for Refugees. She is also the Coordinator of the Network for Refugee and Migrant issues of Amnesty International GR and she has been volunteering at Khora, a British humanitarian co-operative foundation for refugees in Athens.
Dr Alex Schwartz (2019 - 2020)
Dr Alex Schwartz is Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law at the University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law. His research is focussed on courts and judicial politics, and he is co-editor, with David Law and Holning Lau, of the Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Asia.
Dr Schwartz was previously Lecturer in Law at Queen's University Belfast, a Banting Fellow with the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University Canada, and a postdoctoral fellow with the Canada Research Chair in Quebec and Canadian Studies at L'Université du Québec à Montréal.
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