Visit Period: October 2026

Dr Maxence Rivoire is a Lecturer in Law and the Director of the LLB in English Law and Master 1 in French Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law. He is also an academic fellow of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, and an associate member of the Panthéon-Assas Institute of Comparative Law.

Maxence’s research focuses on private international law, international arbitration, and intellectual property, with a strong emphasis on the comparative aspects of these disciplines. His recent work won several prizes, including the Yorke Prize, the Nappert Prize in International Arbitration, and the American Society of International Law’s Prize for Best Published Work in the Field of International IP Law.

Prior to becoming an academic, Maxence was an international arbitration associate at Freshfields in Paris. He is included on the List of Arbitrators of several arbitral institutions, including the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, and the Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre of the Unified Patent Court. Qualified and admitted to practice in France, Maxence holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, a Magister Juris from the University of Oxford, an LLM in Private International Law and International Commercial Law from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and an LLB from the University of Grenoble.

Visit Period: November 2026

Marco Longobardo (PhD) is Reader in International Law at the University of Westminster. He’s the author of The Use of Armed Force in International Law (Cambridge University Press 2018) and Sufficient Gravity before the International Criminal Court (Edward Elgar 2026) as well as the co-editor of Justice for Atrocities: Dialogues and Encounters between Latin America and Europe (Routledge 2026). He has received several prizes for his research (including the 2021 Paul Reuter Prize), and he sits in the editorial or advisory boards of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, the International Community Law Review, and the Journal du Droit Transnational.

Visit Period: November 2026

Dr Karolina Tetłak, LL.M. (Harvard Law School), is an Assistant Professor of Tax Law at the University of Warsaw, Poland. She specialises in Polish, European and international tax law. Her academic work spans double tax treaties, corporate and individual taxation, VAT, real estate, wealth and property taxation, tax policy and fiscal design, as well as the taxation of highly mobile individuals, environmental taxation and EU own resources. Her current research focuses on tax competition within the European Union, corporate residence and place of effective management, global mobility and remote work, and the allocation of taxing rights in an increasingly mobile and digitalised economy.

A distinctive area of her work is sports and entertainment taxation. She is internationally recognised for her research on the taxation of professional athletes and clubs, image rights, e-sports and the fiscal frameworks of major international sporting events, including the FIFA World Cup, the Olympic Games and UEFA tournaments. Her doctoral research on the taxation of internationally mobile sportspersons was published by IBFD in its prestigious Doctoral Series as Taxation of International Sportsmen. Her research in this field has also been supported by a FIFA research grant.

She is the author and co-author of more than 120 academic publications and regularly teaches and speaks at universities, conferences and seminars worldwide. She has taught international tax law across Europe, Asia, North and South America, including courses at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien and Southwest University in Chongqing. She is also involved in international academic programmes and comparative research projects, including the EUCOTAX programme. She is a member of the International Fiscal Association and the European Association of Tax Law Professors and co-founder of the International Taxation of Entertainers Group.

Dr Tetłak combines academic research with extensive expert and advisory work. She advises private clients, public institutions, tax administrations and international organisations on complex international and EU tax matters, including cross-border structuring, treaty application, tax policy and high-profile tax disputes. Her advisory work frequently involves complex transactions and structures, novel or contentious tax issues and matters requiring the interaction of domestic, EU and international tax law. She has contributed to projects for the United Nations and the European Commission, and as a consultant to UN DESA she participated in work on the Commentary to Article 17 of the UN Model Tax Convention. She has also acted as an expert witness in tax-related arbitration proceedings before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

Visit Period: January 2027

Dr Allison Lindner is a Lecturer in Law at UCL Faculty of Laws. She is interested in and has published on economic and sociolegal approaches to environmental law problems in the Global South with a research focus on waste, sustainable development and the informal economy. She has also made a documentary, Reclaiming Now, about her research on waste pickers in South Africa. At UCL, she teaches environmental law, business and human rights, and property law. Dr Lindner is a member of the Academic Circle advising the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development on the fulfilment of his mandate until December 2027. Allison is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She founded and runs the Waste Law Research Group for early to mid career academics working in the field of waste law. Dr Lindner has previously held a visiting fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Allison holds a PhD in Law from Kent Law School at the University of Kent, an LLM in International Economic Law from SOAS, University of London, and a BA International and Comparative Studies from the University of Western Ontario. Before entering academia, Allison worked as a Legal Researcher at the Commonwealth Secretariat, and as a researcher in support of the appellants in the landmark U.S Supreme Court case, Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell). She is previous Chair of the Public Interest Environmental Law UK conference. .

Visit Period: January 2027

Dr Jason Rudall is Associate Professor of Public International Law at Leiden University, where he also serves as Co-Director of Teaching at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies and Academic Coordinator of the Advanced LL.M. in Public International Law. His research spans public international law, international environmental and climate change law, investment law and dispute settlement. He is author of three monographs, including Altruism in International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Responsibility for Environmental Damage (Edward Elgar, 2024) and Compensation for Environmental Damage under International Law (Routledge, 2020), co-editor of the Commentary to the UN Watercourses Convention (Oxford University Press, 2018) and has published many articles, chapters and blog posts. Dr Rudall’s work has been recognised with several awards, including the Hsu Mo Prize (2023) and the Meijers Research Prize (2021). He has held visiting positions at leading institutions worldwide and has advised international organisations, NGOs and law firms.

Visit Period: January 2027

Dr Luping Zhang is an Associate Professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of International Law, China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL). She is a Council Member of the China Society of Private International Law, a member of the International Law Faculty Academic Committee and listed in the Young Talent Project at CUPL. She holds a Ph.D. in Law from King’s College London, an LL.M. in Air and Space Law from Leiden University, an LL.M. in International Law from New York University, and an LL.B. from Jinan University. She is admitted to the New York State Bar.

Dr Zhang’s research focuses on international dispute settlement and aerospace law. Her monograph The Resolution of Inter-State Disputes in Civil Aviation was published by Oxford University Press in 2022 and has been featured in the American Journal of International Law, the Chinese Journal of International Law, and Air and Space Law, among others. She has published extensively in leading journals including Humanities and Social Science Communications, Technology in Society, Acta Astronautica, the Journal of International Dispute Settlement, the Chinese Journal of International Law, and Air and Space Law. She is also the translator of The Limits of Private Governance by Florian Grisel (SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2024).

Dr Zhang has led research projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China and the Department of Treaty and Law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She regularly provides legal advice to China’s Civil Aviation Administration, the National Space Administration, and the Ministry of Commerce. She serves as a legal expert for the UNESCAP CPTA Article 8 Working Group and is nominated twice for the APEC Senior Officials Meeting legal expert. She is the faculty advisor for the CUPL team in the Leiden-Sarin International Air Law Moot Court Competition, having guided the team to national championships for three consecutive years (2023–2025). She is also a peer reviewer for multiple SSCI, CSSCI, and CLSCI journals, and serves on the editorial boards of the China Aviation Law Review and Aviation and Space Journal.

Visit Period: February 2027

Dr Zhiyu Li is an Associate Professor in Law and Policy and Director of the Centre for Chinese Law and Policy at Durham Law School in the UK. Prior to joining Durham, she received her JSD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and was a Hauser Global Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University School of Law.

Zhiyu’s research focuses on constitutional law, technology law, and comparative law. Her work examines the role of the judiciary and the interplay between law, technology, and politics in modern societies. Her scholarship has been published in internationally recognized journals, including the Harvard International Law Journal, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, and Artificial Intelligence and Law. Her research has also been cited in a New York Times op-ed and referenced in the Master of the Rolls’ Oxford Blackstone Lecture. She has presented her work at conferences such as the Annual Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars, the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law’s Conference on Judging, and the Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum. She has also delivered judicial training for the Dubai Judicial Institute and given guest lectures at research institutions in the UK, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Germany, and the United States.

Her current research examines the governance of artificial intelligence in China. She is also working on a collaborative project on UK’s digital justice system, supported by a Research Development Grant from the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University.

Visit Period: March 2027

Dr Jess Mant is a Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, Monash University and Deputy Director of the Warren Institute for Civil Justice. Her research interests lie in socio-legal studies, access to justice and family law, with a particular focus on how people experience, and how judges manage, self-representation in the family courts of Australia.

Her publications include two monographs: Litigants in Person and the Family Justice System (Hart, 2022) and Legal Aid and the Future of Access to Justice (Hart, 2023), as well as several articles on these topics in peer-reviewed journals in the UK and Australia. She also regularly advises policymakers, regulators and not-for-profit organisations across both jurisdictions. In 2023, she contributed to law reform in Australia by assisting with a proposed crossbench amendment to the Family Law Amendment Bill 2023 (Cth) as it passed through the Federal Parliament of Australia. The amendment, which was adopted, requires family courts to consider the relevance of historical family violence when determining parenting orders.

She currently holds an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) for a three-year empirical study of procedural justice in ‘uneven hearings’, in which one party is self-represented and the other is legally represented (2026-2029). This study involves three phases: courtroom observations, interviews with judges and interviews with self-represented litigants. Ultimately, this study aims to produce new procedural guidance, judicial training and public legal education resources that can support the just and efficient management of uneven hearings in Australian family courts.

During her visit to the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dr Mant will present interim findings from the observational phase of the DECRA study, with a view to exchanging comparative perspectives on self-representation, judging, and socio-legal research in courtroom settings. She also welcomes the opportunity to explore future international collaboration on access to justice, in civil as well as family courts.

Visit Period: March 2027

Dr Henok Asmelash is an Associate Professor in International Economic Law at Birmingham Law School. Before joining the University of Birmingham, he was a Postdoctoral Global Fellow at New York University and a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg. He spent the 2025/26 academic year on policy secondment at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC as the British Academy Global Innovation Fellow.

Henok holds a PhD in International Law and Economics from Bocconi University and LLM degrees in International Economic Law and Policy from the University of Barcelona and in Business Law from Addis Ababa University. His research focuses on legal and policy issues at the intersection of trade, energy and the environment with a particular emphasis on the role of trade law and policy in the energy transition and African economic integration. He has published his work in leading international law journals such as the Journal of International Economic Law, the European Journal of International Law and Journal of World Investment and Trade. His publications have been cited widely, including by governmental and intergovernmental bodies such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Visit Period: March 2027

Dr Saumya Saxena is an Associate Professor at the Jindal Global Law School. Her research interests include legal history, gender, family law, religion and secularism in South Asia. Her book, ‘Divorce and Democracy: A history of personal law in post-independence India‘ was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. Formerly, she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge (2018-2023). Her publications can be accessed here.

Her current research focusses on the legal history of superstition in India. She analyses the narratives of spirit possession and witch hunting as recorded and dealt with in the legal archive. Her research studies the construction of the ‘culpable subject’ when the supernatural translates to the legal register. It contrasts court judgements with local narratives to understand attitudes of the law and the locality in dealing with ghosts, gods and spirits in postcolonial India, since independence to present day.

She is also interested in legislative drafting and policy. She served as an adviser to the Law Commission of India from September 2016 to August 2018. She contributed to the Commission’s reports on family law reform, law against hate speech, and implementation of the law against child marriage. She assisted the Justice Verma Committee, a judicial commission appointed in December 2012 for revising the laws on crimes against women in India which became the basis for the ‘Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013’. In 2019, she was consulted as an expert on South Asian laws and customs on marriage and divorce by the Forced Marriages Commission, UK. In 2019, she was awarded the University of Cambridge, Vice Chancellor’s Research Impact and Engagement Award and British Council Award for ‘Professional Achievement’ for her work with law reform.

She is currently involved in a United Nations Population Fund initiative on ‘gendering legal education’ across public universities in India. She is a scholar at the Asian Legal History Association (2026-27) and a member of the American Society for Legal History.

Visit Period: April 2027

Dr Grigoris Bacharis is a Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Edinburgh and Co-Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Private Law. His research focuses on the intersection of private law theory, competition law, and regulatory enforcement, examining how public enforcement objectives reshape private law’s person-centred conception of liability. 

Grigoris holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence (2023), supervised by Professor Stefan Grundmann, where he defended the thesis ‘Shaping Liability in Private Enforcement Actions: A Framework from Tort and Competition Damages Law in Europe and the United States’. He holds LL.M. degrees from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Before joining Edinburgh he was a Fellow in Law at the London School of Economics (2022–2024), and he has held visiting positions at Columbia Law School, Humboldt University of Berlin, and King’s College London. His practical experience includes work as a lawyer in Greece and a traineeship at the Hearing Office for Competition at the European Commission.

His publications include:

‘Public Redress in UK Competition Enforcement: a Study of Rationales and Techniques’ (with John Kwan) 13 Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (2025) 621

‘Bridging the Gap(s): The Importance of Private Law Theory in the EU Context’ (with Szymon Osmola), 61 Common Market Law Review (2024) 1205

‘Framing Civil Actions for Wrongs as a Spectrum: From Tort Law to Pure Enforcement’, in Andrew Robertson and Jason Neyers (eds), Private Law and the State (Hart, 2024)

‘Standing in Competition Damages Actions’, 13 Journal of European Competition Law & Practice (2022) 445

Visit Period: April 2027

Dr Vladyslav Lanovoy is an Associate Professor of Public International Law at Université Laval and the Neuberger-Jesin Professor of International Conflict Resolution at the University of Ottawa. He is also an Associate Editor of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law, a Book Reviews Editor of the Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals and a member of the Advisory Board of the ASIL International Courts and Tribunals Interest Group, which he co-chaired between 2023 and 2026. His research focuses on the law of State responsibility, including remedies and reparations, international courts and tribunals, public and private mechanisms of codification and progressive development of international law, and the classification of obligations in international law.

He holds a PhD in International Law (summa cum laude with félicitations du jury) from the Geneva Graduate Institute and is the author of Complicity and its Limits in the Law of International Responsibility (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2016), which was awarded the 2017 Paul Guggenheim Prize. He was a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge and a teaching and research assistant at the University of Geneva. Vladyslav has held visiting academic positions at the Université de Bordeaux, Queen Mary University of London and Université Catholique de Lille. He was Director of Studies in Public International Law (English-speaking section) at The Hague Academy of International Law in summer 2025.

Prior to joining academia in Canada, Vladyslav served as an Associate Legal Officer at the International Court of Justice (2017-2021) and as an Assistant Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (2014). He also worked in international arbitration at Freshfields LLP in London and Paris. Vladyslav has consulted for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Environment Programme. He has also acted as counsel in contentious and advisory proceedings before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and arbitral tribunals. He is admitted to practice law as a solicitor in England and Wales.