Welcome to our new staff!

This has been a busy season for the Department in selecting new staff to join us. We have been very fortunate to attract a veritable cosmopolitan group of brilliant young lawyers. The international reputation of LSE and the high national ranking of the Law Department enables us to persuade promising scholars from all over the world to join us. Here is a brief summary of these new appointments:

Professor Eduardo Baistrocci has accepted our offer of lecturer position in the law of taxation. Eduardo is currently an associate professor of law at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires before doing an LLM at Harvard Law School and then later an LLM at LSE (1998-9). He has been a Fulbright Scholar and a Chevening Scholar. He has also been a visiting professor at Northwestern University and Toronto. His research concerns international tax law, where he has applied game theory to investigate the operation of international tax treaties. His forthcoming book is entitled Transfer Pricing Litigation: Theory and Practice (Lexis Nexis, forthcoming 2008). Eduardo will start full-time at LSE in September 2009, but will visit and teach in the spring of 2009.

Mr Jacco Bomhoff is currently a junior research fellow at Leiden, where he plans to complete his doctoral thesis this summer before joining us as a lecturer in September. Jacco studied law at Leiden, Oxford, and Sciences Po. He currently lectures on the LLM programme at Leiden in Private International Law, where he has also taught EU law and Comparative Constitutional law. His research blends these subjects, because he is interested in the place of fundamental rights in private international law. He has a number of articles in this field, as well as a short monograph on Judicial Discretion in European Law on Conflicts of Jurisdiction (2005). Jacco will teach Conflict of Laws at undergraduate and LLM levels, and will also make a contribution to EU law teaching.

Dr Jo Braithwaite has taken the position of lecturer in commercial and financial law. Jo has recently submitted her PhD thesis on Power, prizes and partners: Explaining the diversity boom in City law firms. She comes to us from Queen Mary, though she was registered at LSE for two years before moving to follow her main supervisor Kate Malleson. Previously, Jo obtained a first in History at Oxford, then took the legal practice course and the common professional examination, an LLM at the University of Pennsylvania, and then trained and practised at Allen & Overy. Jo has won a Thuron Award, a Modern Law Review Scholarship, and was recently nominated for the Queen Mary Drapers' Award for excellence in teaching. Jo has previously taught in the fields of commercial litigation and debt finance.

Dr Florian Hoffmann (left) joins us as a lecturer in public international law from the University of Rio de Janeiro.  Florian studied the BSc in Law and Government at LSE, and obtained his doctorate at the EUI in Florence on the topic 'Are Human Rights Transplantable?' parts of which can be read in his article 'Shooting in the Dark: Reflections Towards a Pragmatic Theory of Human Rights (activism)' in (2006) Texas International Law Journal.  In Rio, Florian has taught pretty much every aspect of Public International Law and International Protection of Human Rights.  At LSE he will be teaching Public International Law and Human Rights in the Developing World.

Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp (left) will be joining us as a lecturer from HEC School of Management in Paris in September. Jan studied law and obtained his doctorate at the University of Hamburg. He has worked at the European Commission and has been a research fellow at Max Planck Institute in Hamburg. His major publication to date is entitled International Commercial Arbitration in Latin America: Regulation and Practice in the MERCOSUR and the Associated Countries. His forthcoming book (with S. Vogenauer) is a Commentary on the UNIDROIT principles of International Commercial Contracts. He speaks and writes in German, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. He will be taking the lead in International Commercial Arbitration on the LLM, and participate in undergraduate Law of Obligations.

Professor Niamh Moloney (left) has accepted the appointment to the new chair in the Law of Financial Markets. Niamh studied law at Trinity College Dublin and Harvard Law School. She has taught at Queen's University Belfast, University College London and at present is Professor of Capital Markets Law at the University of Nottingham. Her main body of published research is in the field of the regulation of capital markets and investment services. In particular, she published the first book on EU capital market and investments services law, entitled EC Securities Regulation (2002). She is a member of a number of editorial boards including the European Business Organisation Law Review and the Capital Markets Law Journal. Niamh will join the Department in January 2009 and will be contributing to the teaching of company law and financial regulation at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Ms Anthea Roberts joins us as a lecturer also with expertise in Public International Law. She studied law at the Australian National University, and then the LLM at New York University as a Hauser and Fulbright Scholar. Among several of her articles, her essay Traditional and Modern Approaches to Customary International Law (2001) 95 American Journal of International Law 757 is notable for having won the Francis Deak prize for the best article in international law written by a scholar under 40 years of age. Recently Anthea has been an associate at the international law firm Debevoise & Plimpton, where she has been involved in cases involving international investment treaty arbitration and international criminal law. Anthea is a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law and she has been admitted to the Bar in Australia, New York, and England and Wales. Anthea will introduce a new LLM course involving international investment arbitration and other forms of civil law international jurisdiction as well as contributing to the teaching of other fields of public international law.

Dr Fauzia Shariff is currently an ESRC Postdoctoral research fellow at SOAS, and will join the Department as a lecturer. She studied law at Kent, SOAS (LLM), and wrote her PhD at the University of Warwick on the topic of Resisting Subjugation: Law and Power Amongst the Santal of India and Bangladesh. She is currently producing articles and a book from her thesis and associated fieldwork. Fauzia will teach Introduction to the Legal System for the LLB, and take the lead for the Department on the BA Anthropology and Law. In the longer term, she wishes to develop her teaching in the field of ADR.

Dr Stephen Watterson joins us from Bristol in September as a Senior Lecturer. Stephen studied law at Oxford, where he also obtained his DPhil. He has worked at the Law Commission, and since 2002 he has been a lecturer and then a senior lecturer at Bristol. His recent book (with C. Mitchell) is entitled Subrogation: Law and Practice (OUP, 2007). He has published articles in the fields of insurance law, damages, and commercial law more generally. In his teaching, he will be primarily contributing to Commercial Contracts at undergraduate level and Banking Law at LLM level.

We are also pleased to announce the appointment of the following eight doctoral students as LSE Fellows: Alan Brady, Alejandro Chehtman, Eyal Geva, Carmen Haddadin, David Mangan, Jeffrey Meyers, Abhijit Pandya, and Charlotte Peevers.