Visit Period: September 2025

Dr Leopoldo Parada, LLM, PhD, is a Reader in Tax Law at King’s College London in the UK. Previously he was an Associate Professor in Tax Law and Director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice (CBLP) at the University of Leeds School of Law. In the past, he also held academic positions in Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands, and practised full time as a tax lawyer in Brazil, Chile, and the United States. Dr Parada also works as a tax policy advisor for different governments and international organisations around the world and has participated in different legislative tax reforms worldwide, including most recently the introduction of interest limitation rules in Indonesia and the OECD Pillar 2 in Curaçao.

His research focuses primarily on the international implications of base erosion and profit shifting, tax treaties, and the digitalisation of the economy. He is the author of two monographs with Wolters Kluwer (2018) and (2024). A third co-authored monograph with Oxford University Press is expected in 2026. He is also editor of two collective volumes with Edward Elgar Publishing (2022) and Wolters Kluwer, Eucotax Series (2020). Dr Parada has also more than 60 academic publications in recognised international tax law journals, such as the British Tax Review, Florida Tax Review, Columbia Journal of Tax Law, and Virginia Tax Review, among others, and he has been a speaker in more than 100 specialised venues around the world. His opinions are frequently featured both in written and visual specialised and non-specialised media outlets, both inside and outside the United Kingdom. Most notably, his academic work has been cited in the 2019 Report on Digital Services Taxes elaborated by the United States Congressional Research Service, and by the European Union Advocate General in his opinion on the case C-342/20, concerning investment funds in Finland. Dr Parada has also collaborated for several years with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in important investigations related to tax evasion and tax avoidance, including the “Pandora Papers” released in 2021.

Dr Parada is a member of the Society of Legal Scholars in the UK, the European Association of Tax Law Professors (EATLP), and the International Fiscal Association (IFA, UK branch). He also holds a seat in the International Tax Compliance Task Force that advises the Finance Minister of Curaçao, and he is a member of the Tax Committee of Experts of the Joint Italian/Arab Chamber of Commerce and the Gulf Cooperation Council Tax Law Expert’s Arena Group. In 2020, Dr Parada was recognised by the “TaxCOOP 35 Leaders of the Future in Taxation” in Canada as one of the most important tax policy experts worldwide.

Visit Period: November 2025

Dr Kayleen Manwaring is currently Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs (Law) in the Faculty of Law & Justice at the University of New South Wales, Sydney (UNSW). Her recent research appointments include Senior Research Fellow in the UNSW Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation (2022-2023) and Yong Pung How School of Law Visiting Scholar (2024). She is an alumnus of the University of Sydney, UNSW and the University of Technology, Sydney, with doctoral, postgraduate and undergraduate qualifications in law and technology, communications and arts. Prior to her academic appointment in 2012, for over 15 years Kayleen worked in Sydney and London as a technology lawyer, information technology consultant, and a knowledge manager at leading law and professional services firms and one of Australia’s largest financial services companies.

Kayleen’s scholarship concentrates on the legal implications of sociotechnical change arising from emerging technologies across the spectrum of private and commercial law. Here scholarship traverses a wide range of sub-disciplines, an approach key to the critical legal analysis of emerging technologies, where the areas of law likely to give rise to challenges for consumers are not yet clearly known. Her research covers a wide range of doctrinal legal issues relating to consumer protection, contract, intellectual property, corporations, financial services, critical infrastructure and data protection law. Despite their disciplinary differences, each contributes to her overarching purpose: to identify and elucidate emerging harms and regulatory gaps in fast-developing technologies and related sociotechnical change. Kayleen aims to shape the design of proactive and effective law and policy to protect consumers against abuse of power by commercial entities with control over technology, particularly cyber-physical devices and systems.

Kayleen is currently the Director of Undergraduate Studies (Law) in UNSW Law & Justice, and has taught undergraduate and postgraduate law and business students in comparative perspectives in law and technology, online content regulation, intellectual property, contract law, business associations, consumer protection and business consulting. You can find out more about Kayleen’s work here.

Visit Period: December 2025

Dr Ka Lok Yip holds an interdisciplinary PhD (summa cum laude) in International Law and International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, a Bachelor of Civil Law (distinction) from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Laws (first class honors) from King’s College London. Dr Yip focuses her research on peace and conflict. She draws on a wide range of disciplines including international law, international relations, philosophy, psychology, and sociology to study the causes of armed conflicts and strategies for their management, resolution, and prevention. Dr Yip’s first monograph, ‘The Use of Force against Individuals in War under International Law – A Social Ontological Approach’, a book-length treatment on the relationship among international humanitarian law, the law on the use of force and international human rights law was published by Oxford University Press in 2022, awarded the Francis Lieber Prize in 2023 and recognised in International Studies Review as a ‘thought-provoking’ and ‘important contribution to the scholarly literature on international law, human rights, global studies, and social theory’.

Dr Yip has authored over 20 other peer-reviewed academic works on topics related to international law and armed conflicts, including research articles for general international law journals such as Asian Journal of International Law (‘Reconceptualising Norm Conflict in International Law’), Chinese Journal of International Law (‘Military Alliances under International Law’), European Journal of International Law (‘Demystifying the Right to Life during the Conduct of Hostilities – Theories, Methods, Practices’) and German Yearbook of International Law (‘What is Human? Reading Social Idealism against the Reality of Blackman and Azaria’) as well as specialist international law journals such as Journal on the Use of Force and International Law (‘To Call a Spade a Spade: Use of Force Depriving a People of Their Right to Self-Determination as Violation of Jus Contra Bellum’), The Military Law and the Law of War Review (‘Separation between jus ad bellum and jus in bello as Insulation of Results, not Scopes, of Application’), Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (‘Nuclear Deterrence in the War on Ukraine – a Legal Appraisal’), Journal of International Dispute Settlement (‘The Missing Elephant in the Room – the Jurisdiction of International Human Rights Tribunals over International Humanitarian Law’), Human Rights Law Review (‘The Weakest Link – from Non-derogation to Non-existence of Human Rights’) and Human Rights and International Legal Discourse (‘What Does the Jurisdictional Hurdle under IHRL Mean for the Relationship between IHRL and IHL?’). Dr Yip also authors for journals in philosophy and theories, such as Journal of Critical Realism (‘Realist Agency and Phenomenological Subjectivity: Friends or Foes?’), Jus Cogens – a Critical Journal of Philosophy of Law and Politics (‘Equality in International Law and its Social Ontological Discontent’) and  Transnational Legal Theory (‘The ICRC’s Interpretive Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities– Sociological and Democratic Legitimacy in Domestic Legal Orders’).

Dr Yip is Assistant Professor at the College of Law, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. She is admitted to legal practice in Hong Kong and England and Wales.

Visit Period: January 2026

Dr Flora Renz is a socio-legal scholar, based at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. Her research interests lie in the area of gender, disability and social and legal inequalities. Her approach to law is influenced by feminist theory and critical disability studies; it uses a mix of empirical methods and theoretical analysis. Her publications include the monograph Gender Recognition and the Law: Troubling Transgender Peoples’ Engagement with Legal Regulation (Taylor & Francis, 2024). Flora’s work on trans issues, including the regulation of single-sex spaces, access to health care and the introduction of third gender markers has been published in leading legal journals including the Journal of Law and Society and Feminist Legal Studies. Flora’s work with Dr Avi Boukli on the public health dimension of LGBT people as human trafficking victims/survivors has been cited by the UNODC.

Flora’s research is broadly concerned with the interface between structural inequalities, law, gender and disability. Her recent monograph provided an in-depth analysis of how medically defined gender norms become embedded in the legal regulation of gender markers in England and Wales, based on interviews with trans and non-binary people. Drawing on research from biomedical sciences and Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Feminism, Flora has also published on how legal personhood engages with disability at the interface of disabled bodies and mobility aids like wheelchairs and prosthetics, which forms part of a wider research project on the legal regulation of assistive technologies. Flora is currently leading a British Academy funded research project on gender and disability classification in wheelchair rugby (2025-2027).

From 2023-2025 Flora worked with Dr Carin Tunaker on a ‘LGBTQ+ Youth Homelessness Review’ commissioned by the Albert Kennedy Trust. Flora’s focus was on the intersecting legal, social and medical inequalities that lead to increased rates of homelessness for young, disabled LGBTQ+ people.

From 2018-2022 Flora was a Co-I with Professors Davina Cooper (PI), Emily Grabham and Elizabeth Peel on the ESRC funded socio-legal project The Future of Legal Gender. Drawing on prefigurative methodologies, this project asked whether government should retain the current system of a legal gender assigned at birth and what the continuing relevance of this is in different legal and social areas such as single-sex spaces.

Visit Period: June 2026

Neha Mishra is Assistant Professor in the international law department of the Geneva Graduate Institute. She researches and publishes on international legal issues in the digital economy, focusing on international economic law, data flows/governance, and digital trade, and the interface of international law and emerging digital technologies. She was previously Lecturer in law at the Australian National University and Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore. Neha holds a doctorate degree from the University of Melbourne. Neha has also held visiting research positions at the Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg and the World Trade Organization. She completed her undergraduate degree in law from National Law School Bangalore (India), LL.M. in Public International Law from London School of Economics (UK), and Master’s in Public Policy from National University of Singapore (Singapore). Neha is a dual-qualified lawyer (UK and India) and has previously practiced law with Herbert Smith Freehills LL.P. in London and Economic Laws Practice in Delhi, as well as worked in the Government Relations Teams at eBay Singapore and Microsoft Singapore on a wide variety of legal and policy issues related to internet and digital trade regulation. Neha also consults international organisations, the private sector, as well as governments on digital trade and data regulations.