Dr. Mariela de Amstalden is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Technology at the University of Exeter Law School. Her research and teaching examine the legal and regulatory implications of innovation in emerging technologies, with a particular focus on socio-techno approaches to intellectual property rights, international economic law and global governance. Previously, Mariela was a lecturer in intellectual property and innovation law at the University of Birmingham Law School, a teaching fellow in public and constitutional law at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of British Columbia, Peter A. Allard School of Law, and a research fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School. She has also held a number of visiting appointments, including at the University of Edinburgh, Scottish Centre for IP and IT Law (SCRIPT), where she pioneered work on the law of cell-cultivated technologies, as well as at the University of Cambridge, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Georgetown University, Institute for International Economic Law, and University of Berne, World Trade Institute. A law graduate from the University of Lucerne (Switzerland) and VU Amsterdam (the Netherlands), she has experience in private practice, the civil service and the judiciary, and has published extensively on the law of emerging biotechnologies, food and public health regulation from a comparative legal perspective and international trade law.
Dr. Niall Moran is an Assistant Professor in Economic Law in the School of Law and Government at DCU. He holds a PhD in International Economic Law from Bocconi University and has previously worked for the Legal Service of the Council of the European Union and the Bilateral Relations with the Americas Unit at DG AGRI, European Commission. Previously, he was a Lecturer in Law at Middlesex University, London, a Research Associate at Pluricourts, University of Oslo, and a Visiting Researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is the author of 'Engagement between trade and investment law: the role of PTIAs' (Springer 2021). His research interests include EU law, International Trade Law, WTO law, International Investment Law, and trade & investment in agriculture.
Dr. Henok Asmelash is an Assistant Professor at Birmingham Law School. Prior to joining the University of Birmingham, he was a Postdoctoral Global Fellow at New York University School of Law and a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law. He holds a PhD in International Law and Economics from Bocconi University (Milan) and LLM degrees in International Economic Law and Policy from the University of Barcelona and in Business Law from Addis Ababa University. His main research and teaching interest lie within the broad field of international economic law with a particular emphasis on legal and policy issues at the intersection oftrade, energy and the environment and regional economic integration in Africa.
