Visiting Fellows

Read the profiles of some of our current and recent visiting fellows, and find out more about their research backgrounds and interests.

School of Law and Social Justice Visiting Fellows 2024-25

 

Joan Baucells Llados

Professor Joan Baucells Lladós

1 January - 31 March 2025, Self-funded track.

Hosted by Professor Sandra Walklate, Department of Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology. 

Joan visits from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.

 

Nadiia Shcherbak

16 October 2024 - 6 November 2024, Self-funded track.

Hosted by Dr Áine Clancy, Liverpool Law School. 

Nadiia Shcherbak is a PhD candidate in the Department of Criminal Law and Judiciary at Sumy State University, who holds a Master’s degree in Law, awarded by Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Nadiia’s research interests include criminal law, gender equality, and the prevention of manifestations of gender violence.

 

Katerryna Zaika

16 October 2024 - 11 November 2024, Self-funded track. 

Hosted by Dr John Tribe, Liverpool Law School

Katerryna Zaika is a PhD candidate at Sumy State University, who holds a Master’s degree in Jurisprudence, awarded by the Ukrainian Academy of Banking. Katerryna is researching the current state of bankruptcy regulation in Ukraine.  The purpose of her research is to identify and investigate the main problems, and to propose ways of improving the legislation and practice in this area.  

 

Alina Rassokhina

14 October 2024 - 28 February 2025, Self-funded track.

Hosted by Professor Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou and Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas, Liverpool Law School.

Alina is a PhD candidate in the International, European and Comparative Law Department at Sumy State University, and has a special interest in media regulation.  Alina has three years of law practice, winning all-Ukrainian student research competitions for several years in a row, and her PhD thesis explores the legal regulation of online media, including social media.

 

Dr Vladyslava Zavhorodnia

8 October 2024 - 1 November 2024, Self-funded track.

Hosted by Professor Michael Dougan, Liverpool Law School

Dr Vladyslava Zavhorodnia is Associate Professor and Head of the International, European and Comparative Law Department. Her research interests include European law and the legal regulation of public administration.

 

 

Anna Slavko

Dr Anna Slavko

8 October 2024 - 4 November 2024, Self-funded track.

Hosted by Professor Michael Dougan, Liverpool Law School.

Dr Anna Slavko is Associate Professor and Chair of International, European and Comparative Law.  She has varied research interests within the field of public administration, and has published articles on the principles of administrative law, international law and comparative law.

 

 

Dr Nathália Lipovetsky e Silva

Dr Nathália Lipovetsky e Silva

16 September 2024 - 1 March 2025, Self-funded track.

Hosted by Dr Emily Ireland, Liverpool Law School

Dr Nathália Lipovetsky e Silva is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in the Law School at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. She has recently devoted her work to investigating social issues such as the gender pay gap, paid and unpaid care and domestic work, women’s poverty and all associated consequential vulnerabilities. During her visit, Dr Lipovetsky e Silva will undertake a comparative research project regarding the legislation regulating women’s rights at two different moments in time, based on questions raised by Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. The project will analyse what rights were in force for women in England and Brazil in the 1920s and currently, through the lens of intersectionality and the feminisation of poverty. 

 

Olena Tymoshenko

11 September 2024 - 28 February 2025, Self-funded track.

Hosted by Dr Sabine Jacques, Liverpool Law School

Olena is a PhD candidate in the field of law, and the title of her thesis is ‘Organizational and Legal Regulation of Objects of Intellectual Property Rights Created by Artificial Intelligence’. This thesis explores the intersection of intellectual property (IP) law and artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on the evolving legal frameworks governing such objects. The dissertation's exploration of AI and IP law highlights the urgent need for comprehensive legal reforms to accommodate the rapid advancements in AI technology and its creative capabilities.

 

 

Jung Ho Hyun

Jung Ho Hyun

13 August 2024 - 4 February 2025, Self-funded track.

Hosted by Professor Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, Liverpool Law School.

Jung Ho Hyun visits the School of Law and Social Justice from Cheongju District Prosecutors' Office, Korea, to embark on a research project. Titled 'Law and Practice of the Serious Disaster Publishment Act', the purpose of this research is to conduct a legal and practical study of corporate murder law in the UK, a legislative model similar to Korea's serious accident punishment law. Through this, it is possible to improve understanding of issues in the interpretation of laws and issues in the practice of investigation.

The study plans to thoroughly investigate public safety cases in Korea and contribute to the contuction of a safe Korea through research on investigative techniques in the UK.

 

 

Gerben Geessink

Gerben Geessink

2 September - 1 December 2024, Self-funded track.

Hosted by Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas, School of Law and Social Justice.

Gerben Geessink is a PhD candidate at the Department of Legal Theory and Legal History, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Gerben’s PhD research is focussed on the compensation order (schadevergoedingsmaatregel) in Dutch criminal law. He aims to research this topic through a legal theoretical analysis of the understanding and functioning of the compensation order in the Netherlands, and through a legal comparison with England and France, where the compensation order is understood differently.

 

 

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