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Guest Teachers 2011/12

Imran Afzal. Email: I.S.Afzal@lse.ac.uk

Tola Amodu holds a PhD from the LSE (thesis title: the history of planning agreements as regulatory instruments in England and Wales) and an LLM from Cambridge University. She is a qualified and practising solicitor, a legal member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and teaches public law at the LSE. Aside from public law, Dr Amodu has a particular interest in regulation (theory and practice). Email: T.Amodu@lse.ac.uk

Michael Blackwell. Email: M.C.Blackwell@lse.ac.uk

Rachel Barnes (Dr) teaches the Law of International Economic Sanctions (LL4K2). She holds a PhD in international criminal law from Cambridge University on the UN's use of targeted financial sanctions and an LL.M from Harvard Law School. She is a dual-qualified US attorney and English barrister and currently practises from chambers at Three Raymond Buildings in crime and regulatory law, with particular emphasis on international and cross-border matters. Her distinct expertise is in the area of economic and financial sanctions and she advises clients on matters concerning international, EU, UK and US trade and financial sanctions. Previously, Rachel practised in the New York firm of Shearman and Sterling LLP, acting in a range of complex and cross-border litigation and advisory work concerning corporate crime and regulatory matters. Rachel is on the editorial panel of the Lloyd's Law Reports - Financial Crime. Before teaching at LSE, she supervised in criminal law at Cambridge University. She recently contributed a chapter, 'The Investigation and Prosecution of Foreign Corruption in the United States' to Corruption and Misuse of Public Office, Nicholls et al (2011, 2nd ed, Oxford University Press). Email: r.barnes@lse.ac.uk

Catherine Briddick is the Senior Legal Officer at Rights of Women where she advises women on family, criminal, immigration and asylum law. She trained as a barrister at Tooks Chambers where she represented clients in the magistrates and Crown Courts.
Cate wrote chapters on trafficking, female genital mutilation, domestic violence and immigration and asylum law for Rights of Women's Pathways to Justice, BMER women, violence and the law. Cate also revised Rights of Women's publication for survivors of sexual violence From Report to Court. She is currently working on a new publication on the rights of asylum seeking and refugee women which will be launched in November 2009. She has contributed to other Rights of Women publications, information sheets and training courses.
Cate teaches the International Protection of Human Rights at the London School of Economics and is a Trustee of Asylum Aid and member of their Refugee Women's Research Project Advisory Committee. Email: C.A.Briddick@lse.ac.uk

Jonathan Butterworth. Email: J.C.Butterworth@lse.ac.uk

John Carrier (Dr) is a former LSE Dean of Graduate Studies. Email: J.Carrier@lse.ac.uk

Robert Craig. Email: R.J.Craig@lse.ac.uk

Zelia Gallo. Email: Z.Gallo@lse.ac.uk

Zeina Ghandour. Email: Z.Ghandour@lse.ac.uk

Debbie De Girolamo. Email: D.De-Girolamo@lse.ac.uk

Johanna Jacques holds degrees from the School of Oriental and African Studies, Birkbeck College and the LSE, where she is currently pursuing a PhD in the philosophy of law. She supports the teaching of Introduction to the Legal System (LL109), Property I (LL105), and Law and Politics (LL210, summer school). Email: J.P.Jacques@lse.ac.uk

Panos Kapotas. His PhD thesis, entitled "Positive action as a means to achieve 'full and effective' equality in Europe", offers a critical analysis of the conceptual relationship between positive action, anti-discrimination rights and equality within the normative framework of European law. He is a qualified solicitor in Greece (member of the Athens Bar) and a holder of an LLM (UCL) and a BCL degree (University of Athens). He supports the teaching of Law and Institutions of the European Union (LL232) and he has been lecturing on the Protection of Rights in the UK at the LSE Summer School (since 2005). Email: P.Kapotas@lse.ac.uk

Andreas Kotsakis. Email: A.Kotsakis@lse.ac.uk

Xunming Lim. Email: xunminglim@gmail.com

Orla Lynskey. Orla Lynskey is a PhD candidate in law at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her research focuses on European data protection law. She was a visiting researcher, via the Cambridge-Harvard lawlink, at Harvard Law School from July to October 2011. In addition to her teaching at the LSE, she supervises undergraduate courses in EU law at the University of Cambridge. She has also previously lectured on EU law and policy in Albania, Belgium, France, Germany and Kosovo. Orla read for a degree in Law and French at Trinity College, Dublin before pursuing postgraduate legal studies at the College of Europe, Bruges. During her LLM, Orla competed in the finals of the European Law Moot Court at the Court of Justice of the EU and her Masters’ thesis, on European Asylum law, was published in the European Law Review. Orla later worked as a teaching assistant in the law department at the College of Europe for two years. She then went on to intern for a year in the Brussels offices of a US and a UK law firm, focusing on Competition and Antitrust law. She spent a year working as a contractual agent at the European Commission (DG Competition) investigating a cartel in the consumer detergents market. She is called to the Bar of England and Wales and is a non-practicing barrister. She has published on a variety of EU law subjects in the Common Market Law Review, the European Law Reporter, European Current Law and World Competition. Email: ol226@cam.ac.uk

Amber Marks. Email: A.Marks@lse.ac.uk

Ewan McGaughey see Ewan McGaughey

Grainne Mellon is a barrister at 36 Bedford Row Chambers London where she practices in a range of public and criminal law matters and additionally undertakes advisory work on issues of international human rights law. Before coming to the Bar, Gráinne worked in the Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Unit of the European Commission in Brussels and at the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.She has also worked as a research assistant in the House of Lords and at LSE and has interned at the US House of Congress in Washington DC and with a juvenile justice NGO in Delhi. Gráinne studied law at Trinity College Dublin and completed the LLM in Public International Law at the London School of Economics.Email: G.B.Mellon@lse.ac.uk

Amber Melville Brown. Email: Amber.Melville-Brown@withersworldwide.com

Charlotte Peevers. Email: C.E.Peevers@lse.ac.uk

Vivien Prais. Email: V.Prais@lse.ac.uk Vivien Prais is responsible for the undergraduate course in Commercial Law (LL209) and the graduate course LL4A5 on Investment Funds Law in Europe. She holds degrees from the London School of Economics and is also a qualified solicitor. She has written on company law, legal expenses insurance and comparative civil procedure. Recent publications were:

‘REITS in the UK and Germany: time for change.’ (with Peter Scherer) Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, Vol 25 No 06, June 2010, pp.345-348
‘Newcits: have we been there before?’ (with Mariano Giralt) Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, Vol 25 No 10, November 2010, pp. 605-607
‘The ‘outlook’ for ETFs.’ (with Mariano Giralt) Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, Vol 26 No 05, May 2011, pp 265-267

Maurice Punch. Email: M.Punch@lse.ac.uk

Vimalen Reddi. Email: V.Reddi@lse.ac.uk

Marian Roberts (email: m.roberts@lse.ac.uk) is qualified as a barrister and a social worker. She has been in continuous practice as a family mediator since 1982, working in one of the first (and largest) family mediation services to be established in this country, The SE London Family Mediation Bureau, set up in 1979. Her practice focuses on high conflict disputes over children. She has been recognized under the Legal Services Commission's competence assessment procedure for the purposes of practising in publicly funded family mediation cases. She is a member of the College of Mediators.
    During the 1990's she was responsible for overseeing the creation and development of National Family Mediation's national training and professional practice framework. This included the development of policies, practice guidelines and training on mediation in relation to children, cross-cultural mediation and domestic abuse. She was co-manager, with Dr. Judith Trowell (Tavistock Clinic) and Professor Michael King (Law Department, Brunel University) of the first child protection mediation scheme to operate in the UK, funded by the Department of Health (piloted 1995-1999).
    She was a member of the Reunite Steering Group on Child Abduction and Mediation and one of its pool of mediators in a pilot (culminating in a report in October, 2006) exploring the potential of mediation in bi-national child abduction situations. She continues to co-mediate in cases of child abduction under the auspices of Reunite.
    A Governor of the UK College of Family Mediators (the professional regulatory body for all family mediators) until 2006, and member (and former Chair) of its Professional Standards Committee, she also remains closely involved in the development of the regulatory framework for mediation generally. This includes having been a member of the Legal Service Commission's Working Group on the Mediation Quality Mark and currently, a member of its Mediation Advisory Group.
   She is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, teaching on the London University Masters in Law (LL.M) Alternative Dispute Resolution course since 1989 and now the LSE ADR LL.M. She is Professorial Research Associate in the Department of Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, teaching on its ADR LL.M.
    Marian Roberts' publications include:

Books:.

Access to Agreement: A Consumer Study of Mediation in Family Disputes, with Gwynn Davis (1988) Milton Keynes: Philadelphia: Open University Press.
Developing the Craft of Mediation: Reflections on Theory and Practice (2007) London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. [Finalist in the 2008 CEDR Awards for Excellence in ADR (publications section)]
Mediation in Family Disputes: Principles of Practice (2008) [3rd ed.] Aldershot: Ashgate

Articles:

"Systems or Selves? Some Ethical Issues in Family Mediation", Mediation Quarterly, Vol.10, No.1, Fall, 1992.
"Whose in Charge? Effecting a productive exchange between researchers and practitioners in the field of family mediation", Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, No.4, 1994.
"Family Mediation and the Interests of Women -Facts and Fears", Family Law, Vol.26, April, 1996.
"Third Persons In Family Mediation: towards a Typology of Practice", Mediation in Practice, April, 2003. * [* Awarded the John Haynes Memorial Prize, 2004.]
"Family Mediation: The Development of the Regulatory Framework in the UK", Conflict Resolution Quarterly, Vol.22, No. 4. Summer, 2005.
"Hearing Both Sides: Structural Safeguards for Protecting Fairness in Family Mediation", Mediation in Practice, May, 2005.
"Voluntary Participation in Family Mediation", Family Law, Volume 36, January, 2006.
'International Family Mediation and Recommendation No R(98)1: A Chronicle of Expansion Foretold.' International Family Law, December, 2008.
‘Quality Standards for Family Mediation Practice’ published in Family Law; June, 2010; Volume 40; pages 661-666.

Watkin Samuel. Email: W.Samuel@lse.ac.uk

Krishnan Sanjivi. Email: s.krishnan@lse.ac.uk

Huey Tan. Email: H.Tan1@lse.ac.uk

Roel Theiseen. Email: R.Theissen@lse.ac.uk

Graeme Wood. Email: G.Wood@lse.ac.uk