Former Max Weber Fellows

2010-2011 

• Giuseppe CONTISSA  Stanford University
  Research on: Legal informatics, esp. artificial intelligence & law, computable models of legal reasoning and knowledge, software agents; legal theory, especially legal reasoning, legal logic, legal arguments, game-theory and the law, legislative drafting.

• Magdalena FOROWICZ , University of Zurich
  Research on: EU human rights law, ECHR, Fragmentation of Interational law, EU Constitutional Law

• Marco GOBBATO , University of Trento
  Research on: Contract law; contract law and economics; network governance

• Aneta Katarzyna JURSKA-GAWRYSIAK , Natolin European Centre, Warsaw
  Research on: EU decision-making process, implementation of EU law, public administration of Member States, EU politics, institutional, constitutional law

• Giuseppe MARTINICO , Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa
  Research on: The differences and similarities in the application of European Court of Human Rights and EU laws by national courts

• Tali SCHAEFER , Columbia Law School
  Research on: How law influences, shapes and coerces parental behavior

• Michael SEVEL , University of Texas at Austin
  Research on: General jurisprudence, in particular theories of practical authority, as well as related issues in agency and tort law

• Yane SVETIEV , Brooklyn Law School
  Research on: Economic regulation, and in particular on the intersection of competition law, contracts and intellectual property

• Heng WANG , School of International Law, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongging, China
  Research on: International economic law and Chinese law, incl. treaty interpretation, domestic regu-lation & dispute settlement of services trade, climate change & trade, trade regionalism

• Rebecca ZAHN , University of Edinburgh
  Research on: European law & labour law, particularly European, natio-nal & comparative labour law

2009-2010 

• Ayse Idil AYBARS 
  Research on: The development of gender equality law in Turkey under the influence of the EU accession process and the human rights regime of the UN

• Valentina CALDERAI 
  Research on: The role of private regulation in the design of property rights in the markets for energy

• Elaine FAHEY 
  Research on: The Treaty of Lisbon, National Parliaments and what to do about European referenda: considering Ireland and Germany

• Gianluigi FIORIGLIO 
  Research on: New conceptualization of the right to privacy, focusing on its e-health profiles and on new legal tools to protect it in the Information Society.

• Merilin KIVIORG 
  Research on: EU law affecting the freedom of religion or belief and of interplay between EU law and the ECHR in matters of law and religion

• Jernej LETNAR ČERNIČ 
  Research on: Corporate obligations relating to economic, social and cultural rights in national legal orders and at the international level. Also, a study analyzing the application of human rights law in Central and Eastern Europe and in the Basque country.

• Laura MAGI 
  Research on: The employment by international organizations of private security companies in the context of peace-keeping or peace-building operations.

• Irit SAMET 
  Research on: The way in which ideas and concepts from moral theory inform the development of the law of equity 

2008-2009 

• Mouloud BOUMGHAR 
  Research on: The systemic relations between common Public International Law and EU Law

• Firat CENGIZ 
  Research on: Antitrust enforcement: the design of the US private enforcement regime and the lesson the EU can draw from the American experience

• Nikolaos LAVRANOS  
  Research on: Competing jurisdiction and dispute resolution

• Edyta MOLENDA 
  Research on: Changes to Labour Law, both nationally and internationally, as the effect of family life

• Ekaterina MOULIAROVA  
  Research on: The neighbourhood politics of the EU and the impact of acquis communautaire on the Russian legal order and the integration of the accession ststes

• María Belén OLMOS GIUPPONI  
  Research on: Migration trends in Europe and the protection of cultural diversity

• Ottavio QUIRICO  
  Research on: The responsibility of private security companies under international law

• Reinhard SLEPCEVIC  
  Research on: Judicial enforcement of EC law through National Courts and the differential application of EC law in areas of collective action problems

• Chiara VALENTINI  
  Research on: Legal philosophy and constitutional theory

• Mindia VASHAKMANDZE 
  Research on: The impact of foreign military and security assistance on the respect for human rights and the limits to an international legal obligation not to provide such assistance to certain states

2007-2008 

• Arthur DYEVRE  
  Research on: Comparative Constitutional Law and Comparative Politics, with special emphasis on courts and judicial politics

• Hannes HOFMEISTER 
  Research on: EU external relations law

• Ming-Sung KUO 
  Research on: Constitutional Democracies’ Responses to Global Terrorism and the Governance Crisis stemming from Globalization 

• Francesco MAIANI 
  Research on: Interactions between EU Law, International Law and the Legal Orders of non-EU States, using EC Asylum Law as a Case-Study 

• Ekaterina MOULIAROVA 
  Research on: The Neighbourhood Politics of the EU and the Impact of acquis communautaire on the Russian Legal Order and the Integration of the Accession States 

• Maria Belén OLMOS GIUPPONI 
  Research on: Migration Trends in Europe and the Protection of Cultural Diversity

• Roman PETROV 
  Research on: European Union law; European Single Market; law of European Union external relations; rights of third country nationals in the EU

• Giesela RÜHL  
  Research on: The Europeanisation of Private (International) Law. A Functional Approach 

• Anicée VAN ENGELAND 
  Research on: Reform of Islamic Law interpretation of the notions of war, jihad, peace and humanitarian values in Islam

• Wojciech ZALUSKI 
  Research on: Evolutionary explanations of the emergence of legal institutions

2006-2007 

• Stéphane BEAULAC 
  Fields of expertise: Public international law; History of international law; Reception of international law; Statutory interpretation

• Guido BONI 
  Fields of expertise: European and comparative labour law

• Christophe GERMANN 
  Fields of expertise: International culture and trade law; European law; Constitutional law; Administrative law; Intellectual property and competition laws and policies

• Roman PETROV  
  Fields of expertise: European Union law; European single market; Law of European Union external relations; Rights of third country nationals in the EU

• Cristina PONCIBÒ  
  Fields of expertise: Comparative law; Judicial governance in the EU; Risk perception and regulation

• Lars VINX 
  Fields of expertise: Legal and political theory; History of political thought