DILC EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS

Associate professor, Dr. phil. (Literature Studies, University of Constance), M.A. English Studies, Spanish Philology and Theatre, Film and Television Studies (University of Cologne). 2002 – 2009 Juniorprofessor for German and English Studies at Darmstadt Technical University, currently teaching at RWTH Aachen University. Since 2015 PI in an Aachen-Wuppertal-Warsaw-Lublin Institute Partnership (German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD); short-term lecturer at University of Zimbabwe in 2013 and 2020.

Six monographs and co-authorships, peer-reviewed articles on legal communication (Nerz. Dänische Akteure im Netz SARS-CoV-2: Wissen, Kommunikation und (Un)Recht, 2021), literary theory, postcolonial literatures in (and about) Southern Africa, comparative literary studies, Shoah studies (MATATU, Acta Germanica, arcadia, Comparative Literature Studies, European Judaism, others). Advisory Board member of Journal of Namibian Studies, reviewer for FWO (Belgium), NRF (South Africa), DAAD.

Gastón Becerra is an Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Faculty at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), and an assistant researcher at CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina). He holds a doctorate in philosophy and a bachelor’s degree in sociology, both from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and a master’s degree in epistemology and history of sciences from the Universidad de Tres de Febrero. His research focuses on big data, both as a social-technological complex phenomenon, and as a methodological and epistemological challenge for social sciences.

Valentina Colcelli, PhD, National Research Council, Florence, Italy

Researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Institute CNR_IFAC. Her main research interests focus on the interaction of domestic and European law in shaping rights and interests, and on market regulation. She also has a research interest in a general reflection on the juridical good beyond the EU legal system, internal market regulation, legal and ethical issues in research and innovation activities, contracts for technology transfer and effective judicial protection of biodiversity in light of fundamental rights. She attained her PhD degree with a thesis entitled „Meaning, characteristics and selection of interests in the EU Court of Justice and ECtHR case law”. She was a member of the Doctorate Council of European and International Doctorates in „Knowledge-Based Society and the Legal Discipline of the Common Market: Interdisciplinary Aspects of the European and International Integration”, University of Perugia. She is the Module Leader of the Jean Monnet European Module „Europeanization Through Private Law Instruments” (EuPLAW) and Member of several EU projects: among the others, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in „Research and Science” (R&S) at the University of Perugia;  „Bioresources for Oliviculture” BeFOre- Rise Horizon 2020, CNR;  Jean Monnet Chair 2012, „Individual Rights & Regional Integration (IR&RI)”, University of Perugia; Coordinator Prof. Roberto Cippitani; J. Monnet 2012, „INEQ _ Variety of Institutional Setting and Socio-economic Inequalities in the Process of European Integration”, University of Perugia; Coordinator Prof. Cristiano Perugini; J. Monnet Chair 20112016, „TEKLA The European Knowledge Legal Area”, University of Perugia; Chair Holder Prof. Roberto Cippitani. She is also an expert for the European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation/Infrastructures _ ERIC. Since 2001, she has been a lawyer.

Prof. Gaetano Dammacco, University of Bari „Aldo Moro”, Italy

Full professor of ecclesiastical and canon law at Department of Law of the University of Bari „Aldo Moro”. Coordinator of international and national research projects. Director of the “Euro-Balkan Law and Economics Review”. Expert in sociology of religion, director and teacher  of university masters. Visiting professor at several foreign universities (Albania, Poland, Spain). Organizer of national and international conferences, in particular with universities of Albania, Spain, Poland, Angola, South Korea. Member of scientific committees of legal journals. Ministerial evaluator and member of the university evaluation groups. He is coordinator of international inter-university conventions and collaborates with international organizations, i.a. the Community of Mediterranean Universities-CUM. Member of university recruiting commissions; member of academies and cultural associations. He was responsible for the internationalization of the University of Bari with intense activity in the Balkan countries.

Responsible for scientific research in the field of human rights and religious freedom. One of his monographs entitled „Rights and Religions in the Mediterranean Crossroads” is translated into Arabic, published in Syria / Lebanon by the Atlas Publishing House.

Associate professor, PhD in Law.  She holds Master Degree in law from Kiev National University of Economics, Ukraine. Ph.D. in Law, defended in National University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine. Lecturer in Human rights, Project management, anti-corruption measures. Her scientific interests are: Labor Law, Human Rights, International law, European law, Education, Project management. She is the author of over 100 publications (including 7 monographs, 3 of which were awarded „Recommendations MES of Ukraine”).

2010 – 2015 she was a Dean of the Faculty of International Relations of the Kyiv University of Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She successfully implemented the 4 years joint master’s program between universities of Ukraine and Bulgaria. Her academic interests focus on the harmonization of the legislation of Ukraine and the European Union in the field of labor rights protection. She has been organizer of more than 10 international and Ukrainian academic conferences.

Prof. Izabela Gawłowicz, University of Zielona Góra, Poland

Professor of law at the Institute of Legal Studies, University of Zielona Gora, Poland. She received her MA degree and her PhD degrees in Law at the University of Szczecin, Poland. Her research focuses on the international courts jurisprudence and its influence on public international law. Passionate about International Court of Justice (Hague) and its importance for the development of public international law. President of the trade unions at the University of Zielona Góra, committed to employee rights and the ways in which trade unions influence the legal culture in workplaces.

Prof. Veysel Dinler, Hittite University, Çorum, Turkey

He received his high school diploma from the Police College and a bachelor’s degree from the Turkish National Police Academy. He got his LLB from the Near East University School of Law. He worked for the police as a crime scene investigation expert from 2000 to 2008. He was an officer in the United Nations Police (UNPOL) in the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) between 2006 and 2007. Before resigning from the police, he served as the Chief Inspector.

He received his MA degree from the Süleyman Demirel University Department of Public Administration in 2003 with the MA thesis entitled “The European Convention on Human Rights and Political Parties”. He obtained a second MA degree from Police Academy Department of Crime Research in 2009, completing a thesis entitled “Obtaining Evidence in Turkish Criminal Procedure Law”. He obtained his PhD in 2013, with a doctoral dissertation on “The Limits to State Power in Criminalisation and Punishment”.

Since 2008, he has been an instructor at the Hitit University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration. Since 2014, he has been a faculty member at Hitit University. His research interests include constitutional studies, human rights, criminology, and criminal law. He holds courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Has collaborated in the teaching of seminars, conferences, masters’ courses in numerous Spanish and foreign universities, including the United States, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, United Kingdom, Holland, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Chile, Peru, Cuba, Taiwan and Mexico.

Since 2014, he is an attorney-at-law (radca prawny) – since 201,9 at the Bar Association in Zielona Góra. His research interests are: labour law, coordination of social security systems and constitutional law

Prof. Peggy Katelhön, University of Milan

Peggy Katelhön is Associate Professor of German Language and Translation at the University of Milan (Italy). Her main research interests include spoken language and conversational analysis, the linguistic comparison of Italian and German, pragmatics and text linguistics, the teaching of German as L2, foreign language acquisition and learning. Her recent studies have included orthographic acquisition in German (L2/L3), linguistic variety in Eastern Germany and contrastive Construction Grammar, as well as mediation and mediation activities for foreign language teaching. She is the author of volumes as Sprachmittlung und Mediation für Deutsch als Zweit- und Fremdsprache (with M. Nied Curcio, 2020) and Das fremde Wort im Gespräch. Rededarstellung und Redewiedergabe in italienischen und deutschen Gesprächen (2005), as well as handbooks for foreign language teaching and learning as Rechtschreibtrainer Deutsch als Fremdsprache (2018), Sprachmittlung Italienisch (with M. Nied Curcio and F. Schöpp, 2013), Hand- und Übungsbuch zur Sprachmittlung Italienisch-Deutsch (with M. Nied Curcio, 2012) and of several book chapters and journal articles in international peer-reviewed publications. She participates in the 4EU+ Alliance project “Philotrans” (University of Heidelberg, University Sorbonne Paris, Charles University of Prague, University of Warsaw) and the mini grant 4EU+ “From Silence to Resilience: Strengthening Institutional Communication in the Age of Misinformation” (Charles University Prague, University of Warsaw, University of Milan). In addition, she is the referent of the Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations of the University of Milan for the 4EU+Alliance project.

Prof. Uwe Kischel, University of Greifswald, Germany

He has taught, inter alia, at Irkutsk State University, University of Wroclaw, University of Latvia, Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne, Université de Toulouse 1 Capitole, Université de Rouen Normandie, and Universidad Externado de Colombia. He is chairman of the Section of Public Law in the German Society of Comparative Law, member of the executive committees of that Society and of the International Association of Constitutional Law, and elected member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. He is also a member of the German-Polish Administrative Law Colloquy, and the German-French Discussion Group on Public Law.

He has published, in particular, on German Constitutional Law, European Law, and Comparative Law, and is the author of a major treatise „Comparative Law” as well as the new co-editor of the German Handbuch des Staatsrechts.

Konrad Lachmayer is Professor of Public Law, European Law and Foundations of Law at the Sigmund Freud Private University (SFU) in Vienna. He is also Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law at SFU and Visiting Fellow at Durham Law School in England.

Dr. Lachmayer studied law at the University of Vienna and spent research stays at the University of Cambridge, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and at the Central European University in Budapest.

In 2010, Konrad Lachmayer was awarded the Venia docendi in constitutional law, administrative law and European law at the University of Vienna. From 2013/14 to 2016/17 he was Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Law of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Research Fellow at Durham Law School in England.

Andrew Massey has worked in a range of areas including British, European, and US policy and politics.  He is Editor in Chief of the journal ’International Review of Administrative Sciences’, and Editor for the former CIPFA journal ’Public Money and Management’.  He is also a member of the Council of Administration of the International Institute for Administrative Sciences.

In the recent past he has been Vice President of the European Group for Public Administration, a Trustee of the UK’s Political Studies Association and Chair of the UK’s Joint University Council. He has worked in a variety of jobs on secondment, including the UK’s Department of Energy and projects for the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury (author of the „Massey Report”). He has worked with or advised at some time the National Audit Office and a wide range of UK public sector bodies and International NGOs.

He is the author of over 80 published books and papers, including more than twenty books as author or contributing editor. He has been Head of the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter for nine years and is now the Associate Dean for Social Science in the College of Social Science and International Studies. 

Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Milan. Her research approach falls within the methodological frameworks of Discourse Analysis and social semiotics and is enriched with critical insights from social sciences. Her interests address the linguistic and discursive configurations of a wide range of societal issues, with a critical focus on how they are represented and circulated by the media and the social web. She has investigated sociotechnical controversies and their ethical impact, as these emerge and are debated in public discourse, from the smart city and the Internet of Things to Artificial Intelligence and big data.

She is the author of the volumes City Branding and New Media: Linguistic Perspectives, Discursive Strategies and Multimodality (2015), Framing Big Data: A Linguistic and Discursive Approach(2019), as well as several book chapters and journal articles in international peer-reviewed publications. Discourses of tourism and mobility, gender violence and media coverage, and public health issues in legal and political communication, in a cross-cultural European perspective and especially in response to the pandemic, are her current research focus. She participates in the 4EU+ Alliance project ‘Transnational Legal Communication on COVID-19: From Institutional to Popular Discourse’ (with University of Warsaw as PI, University of Copenhagen, Charles University, Prague, and  RWTH Aachen University).

Lecturer at Faculty of Economic Sciences and Law, University of Pitești, Romania. She graduated in Law at University of Pitești, Romania and in Entrepreneurship at Universite XII Paris, France. In 2014 , she received a PhD in Law in the field of Labour law from the University ”Titu Maiorescu” in Bucharest, Romania. Also, between  2014 and 2015 she was a postdoctoral researcher with scholarship from the University ”Titu Maiorescu” in Bucharest, Romania. Since 2008 she is teaching law at University of Pitesti.

She was also parliamentary advisor for the Romanian Parliament. Begining with 2018 she is a member of Academic network on the European Social Charter and social rights- A.N.E.S.C. She is author and coauthor of over 80 publications in the field of constitutional law, labour law, human rights and international law.

LL.B. from St. Andrews University and a Ph.D. from University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He is a solicitor and sits as a judge in the Appeals Services dealing with disability issues. He has been Professor of Social Welfare Law in the University of Strathclyde since 1992. He works and advises on housing law and is the author of Homelessness and the Law (3^rded; 1996), Housing Law in Scotland (2010) and Residential Tenancies (3^rded; 2012) and was Chair of a Registered Social Landlord company in West Lothian, Weslo Housing from 2005 to 2018.

In the past decade he has extended the focus of his doctoral thesis on legal theory and sociology of law from the work of judges into coverage of how popular culture affects the practice of law. In addition to writing in the area he has developed undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Law, Film and Popular Culture which he has taught in Universities in Scotland, Portugal, Spain and Argentina. He has written widely on law, film and television in journals and edited collections including co-editing Law and Film (with Stefan Machura) in 2001.

Co-ordinator of the Center for European Legal Studies, Institute for Legal Research “Andrei Radulescu” and the Romanian Academy [Centrul de Studii de Drept European al Institutului de Cercetări al Academiei Române]. He teaches European Union Law and International Trade Law at the Christian University Dimitrie Cantemir (Bucharest), and EU Law at the University of Bucharest.

He is Ad hoc Judge at the European Court of Human Rights as well as Arbitrator at the Court of International Commercial Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania.

He is the editor in chief of the Romanian Journal of European Law [Revista Română de Drept European] – Wolters Kluwer, and member in scientific committees of certain other significant law journals in Romania.

PhD in American Studies from Saint Louis University, USA. Learning Developer and Lecturer in History at the University of Plymouth, UK. Co-Lead Editor at the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education.

Alicja has lectured at the University of Plymouth since 2006, teaching and developing courses in American History, Popular Culture, Visual Culture (Film) and World History. Currently, she divides her time between her academic and pedagogic practice after expanding into Learning Development in 2015.

In addition to her subject specialism, she also teaches English for Academic Purposes and freelance copy-edits academic publications.

Associate Professor at Department of Juridical and Administrative Sciences, University 1st of December 1918 of Alba Iulia, Romania. Dean of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences and Member of the University Senat. Distinguished Professor of the University of Bolgna, Edition 2011.

She is a Member of Editorial board of the journal „Annales Universitatis Apulensis”, University “1 Decembrie 1918”of Alba Iulia, Faculty of Law. She is also Coordinator of the Circle of private law at the Faculty of Law, University “1 Decembrie 1918”of Alba Iulia. She is an active conference organizer for university teachers and students.

She specialises in Private Law/Civil Law. She has 12 years of experience in Universitary Education, 9 years experience as a Bar lawyer (Hunedoara Bar) 5 years experience as a legal counsellor.

He studied law in Budapest, Heidelberg and Munich. After obtaining his LL.M. at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München in 2005, he was awarded a doctorate in law at the same university in 2009. He completed and defended his professorial thesis (Habilitation) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) in 2017.

Prof. Vincze taught public law in Budapest at the Eötvös Loránd University between 2003 and 2012. He spent the academic year 2010/11 at the University of Hull (UK) as lecturer in law with focus on European and British public law and acting as convenor for Constitutional law. Since 2012 he has been senior lecturer and later associate professor and Vice Dean at the German speaking Andrassy University of Budapest. His foci are public law, European and comparative law with more than hundred Hungarian and international publications.

He has been teaching rhetoric and law in China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing since 2006. He is currently a Research Fellow in the Centre for Language and Law with responsibility for MA courses in justice and development. He also holds a chair in comparative law at Renmin University, China. He has also been Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of Xiamen, China and holds or has held senior visiting appointments at a number of universities around the world including Hong Kong, Australia, United States, Israel and South Africa.

In addition to his academic career, he has worked for many years as a lawyer (he is an active member of Chinese Bar Association) and investigator in cases related to economic and organized crime. He has also worked for a number of prosecutorial and investigative agencies in numerous countries ranging from China to Trinidad. He was involved in establishing and supporting specialized intercultural legal language comparative study and research teams in a wide range of jurisdictions including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, China.

Professor Zhang is the Associate Chief Editor of the International Journal of Legal English. He received his PhD from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China. He also was awarded an Honorary Director by the Language and Evidence Center, University of the Birmingham partly in recognition of his contribution over many years and in particular for his work in forensic linguistics. His areas of research are the role of the law in promoting integrity and in particular the role of language and rhetoric associated with the inter-play of different legal systems and the civil and criminal law. He has written and contributed to numerous books on such issues as rhetoric in Chinese and American trials, the construction of witness testimony and judges identity.