Affiliated Members

Seamus was appointed as Lecturer in Law in August 2018. Prior to this, he was a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool.

His PhD thesis was entitled "Other Children, Other Voices: Education and Exclusion and the Duty to 'Progressively Realize' Children's Rights'.

Seamus’ research interests lie in the area of children’s socio-economic rights and in particular the fulfilment of those rights through the concept of ‘progressive realisation’. His current research critically examines the phenomenon of school exclusions in the UK as against the duty of the State to progressively realise the right to education for children. Seamus adopts a child participatory methodology in furtherance of his research, invoking both qualitative and quantitative research tools. Seamus holds a BA (Hons) Degree in Legal Science, Politics & Sociology and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) Degree from the National University of Ireland, Galway. Seamus also holds an LL.M in Human Rights Law from Queens University, Belfast and a Barrister at Law Degree from the Honorable Society of Kings Inn’s, Dublin.

Dr Seamus Byrne is now Senior Lecturer in Law at Leeds Beckett University.

Nikhil’s research explores at the role of law in preventing NCDs through tackling unhealthy diets, excessive alcohol consumption and tobacco use. He has also worked on air pollution control. His focus is on the role of regulating the consumer information environment, particularly through mandatory product disclosures. His special interests lie in the conflation of consumer protection law and public health, and in the reduction of health inequalities.

Nikhil is a regular presenter at national and international conferences, and works with international organisations, governments and non-governmental organisations as part of his advisory and consultancy work. Nikhil has been a member of several national committees, including at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the Royal College of Physicians where he was also a member of the Working Party on Air Pollution, the National Institute for Health Research, and the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health. Nikhil was a founding member of the Law & NCD Unit.

Dr Nikhil Gokani is now Lecturer in Consumer Protection and Public Health Law at the University of Essex.

Bianca’s interests lie in Intellectual Property Law, with a focus on the application of copyright in the digital environment. Her PhD thesis discussed the problematic nature of online copyright enforcement. The aim of the thesis was to re-think the copyright enforcement conundrum, challenge some of the assumptions, and to provide a solution that both embraces the nature of the internet and can achieve results for stakeholders. Bianca regularly presents her research at conferences and publishes in specialist journals.

Greg joined Liverpool Law School in 2015 and taught world trade law and constitutional law. Greg's research interests are principally in: public health and trade; the interface between sustainable development and trade; and the regulation of commodities in international law, including socio-historical challenges.

Through the Law & NCD Unit, Greg has worked with the WHO and UNICEF on strategies to prevent non-communicable diseases within the framework of world trade law. He has also worked on a number of projects consulting governments on international law matters, from border delimitation to trade concessions. He is an elected Member on the International Law Association Committee on Sustainable Development and the Green Economy in International Trade Law.

Dr Greg Messenger is now Associate Professor at the University of Bristol Law School.

Niccolò holds degrees from the University of Florence (LLB/LLM), the University of Cambridge (LLM), and King's College London (PhD). He is also an alumnus of the 'Silvano Tosi' Research Seminar in Parliamentary Studies.

His main areas of expertise are Public International Law and International Dispute Settlement, as well as Private International Law. He applies doctrinal and empirical methodologies, including large-scale data mining and social network analysis, to questions concerning the work and performance of international courts and tribunals, as well as the makeup of the communities of practice that exist in and 'create' international law.

Dr Niccolò Ridi is now Lecturer in Public International Law at King's College London.

Jure joined Liverpool Law School as a Lecturer in 2015. He gained academic experience at the University of Cambridge, Harvard Law School and Utrecht University. Jure completed his PhD at Cambridge, focusing on the protection of foreign investors in times of conflict. In 2012 Jure worked as a White & Case Fellow at the School of International Arbitration at Queen Mary, University of London. Prior to that he worked at a The Hague-based NGO in the justice sector, and completed a clerkship at the Court of Appeal in Slovenia. Jure’s research interests are principally in international law, in particular international investment law, and international arbitration. His research has been published in leading journals and selected for presentation at major conferences.

Dr Jure Zrilic is now Senior Lecturer at City Law School, University of London.