Dr. Joyce De Coninck is a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, and an FWO postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University.
Michelle Staggs Kelsall is an international legal scholar and practitioner whose work spans human rights, business and human rights, and the genealogy of international law. She applies a critical approach to practice while exploring how law, institutions and theory intersect to support dialogue, understanding, and answerability.
Polina Kulish is a PhD candidate and a research associate at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. Her fields of research encompass the law of international organisations, law of international security, and media law. In her current research project, she is exploring the nature of member states’ compliance in international organisations. She is a Managing Editor at Völkerrechtsblog.
Céline Chausse is a PhD candidate within the State Silence Research Project (ERC funded) at University College London (UCL). Her current research focuses on non-appearance in inter-state disputes before international courts. Her main fields of interest cover public international law, international adjudication, human rights, and EU law.
Rishiti studied law in UK and Netherlands and holds an LLM Cum Laude in Public International Law. Her academic research centres on digital rights, gender discrimination studies, feminist legal scholarship, and critical approaches to International and European law. She works in ethics of AI and human rights, privacy, and sustainable development.