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DR NAUMAN REAYAT
FOUNDER/CONVENER, GSN.
Convener, Constitutionalism in Developing Democracies, Socio-Legal Studies Association.
Nauman coordinates the affairs of GSN PGR Community . If you wish to join or for any query regarding this group, please write to Nauman at leicgsn@gmail.com or visit the contact page of this website.
IONA MCENTEE, PGR REP, UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE
Iona McEntee is a PhD Candidate at the University of Strathclyde. After completing the LLM in Global Environmental Law and Governance in 2020 and becoming a member of the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance in 2021, Iona has been developing her research within global environmental studies. Iona’s research is grounded within the Rights of Nature discourse, with a focus on analysing the extent to which inter-judicial exchanges can accommodate the diffusion of subaltern epistemologies, and act as a gradual and piece-meal approach towards the cosmopolitan transition of law.
Yusuf Sulayman
GSN PGR Representative, University of Portsmouth.
Yusuf is a lawyer with over 8 years of experience teaching and practicing in Nigeria. He specializes in helping clients resolve a variety of issues from corporate to property and election disputes. He has also worked for non-profits especially in the education and policy spaces to provide sustainable and replicable solutions to challenging issues that affect mostly the underprivileged members of society. He has authored and published several scholarly papers that are well-read and cited. He is currently an Associate Lecturer in Law at the University of Chichester, and a third year PhD researcher at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His research focus is on public law, especially as relates to the empirical assessment of the working of courts in Nigeria.
His thesis challenges the existing order of assessing judicial independence by shifting attention to the role of normative social influence on institutions and how that plays out within the judiciary. He loves to explore new creative ideas and visits the beach for leisure.
Yelyzaveta Monastyrova
Yelyzaveta Monastyrova is a PhD candidate (2022-2025) at the Law School of the Open University. Her dissertation focuses on the inclusion of exploitation of citizens into the anti-trafficking regimes in Spain, Ukraine and the UK, and the relationship between victimhood and citizenship. Yelyzaveta holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master degree in South European Studies from the University of Glasgow, Autonomous University of Madrid and LUISS Guido Carli, and a BA in International Relations from the Oles Honchar Dnipro National University.
Samuel González Cataño
Samuel González Cataño is a Mexican lawyer and political scientist currently pursuing a J.S.D. at Yale Law School, where he also obtained his LL.M. in 2022. He has collaborated at Isonomía, a prestigious Mexican journal on law and philosophy, and served in several positions at the Mexican Supreme Court and the General Consulate of Mexico in New York. Samuel’s research interests include comparative law in Latin America & the Global South, legal & judicial politics, and human rights & democracy.
ANTELE MADUGU
Antele Madugu is a passionate and driven individual from Nigeria. Antele holds a law degree from the University of Abuja, Nigeria, with a Master’s in International Commercial Law from the University of South Wales.
Antele Madugu has worked in several organisations, most recently as a Legal Officer with the Nigerian Ministry of Works and Housing before actively engaging in the world of academia in pursuit of a PhD degree. Their research focus is “The African Single Market: An Analysis of Competition Law in the ECOWAS and Its Impact on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)”
Xiyuan Gao
PhD Candidate in Film Studies, Dept. of Film Studies; School of Arts, Media, and Communication, University of Leicester.
Xiyuan (Samantha) Gao is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Film Studies at the University of Leicester. Her research interests are fandom studies, science-fiction film studies, cultural studies in the Star Wars franchise, and feminist film studies. Her PhD project, “The Re-creation of Female Star Wars Spectators: Fanfiction and Fandom Community”, is collaborative research to the combined discipline of film and media studies. She received her master’s degree in media and communication with Merit from Xi’an-Jiaotong Liverpool University (Suzhou, China) and a bachelor’s degree in art management and cultural communication from the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts (Beijing, China). She is also a member of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies and the Disney, Culture & Society Research Network.
Ewa Karolina Garbarz
Ewa is pursuing a PhD in law at the University of Leicester, entitled ‘From Communism to EU Membership. Legal Transitions and Democratic Backsliding in Poland.’ She is a Graduate Teaching Assistant delivering tutorials in Land Law. Ewa holds an LLM in International Human Rights from the University of Essex, an LLB (Hons) from University of East Anglia, and a Diploma in higher education in law from Universite Jean Moulin Lyon 3. She has experience in the charity sector having worked with multiple NGOs as a researcher, campaigner as well as fundraiser in areas of the implementation of the European Court of Human Rights’ judgments, refugees and asylum seekers, as well as healthcare. Currently, she is also a Committee Member of the Polonium Network’s Mentoring Team co-running a mentoring scheme for researchers, students and young professionals. Her academic interests include EU law, EU politics, democracy and democratisations, European Human Rights, ECHR, Transitional Justice.
BERNARDO CARVALHO DE MELLO
GSN PGR Rep, Newcastle University.
Carvalho began their legal career as a Senior Partner at the esteemed law firm Goodman & Associates, where he honed their skills in various aspects of Civil law, especially Family Law. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Law, specialising in International Human Rights Law at Newcastle University, showcasing their commitment to staying at the forefront of legal scholarship. Their previous academic achievements include a Master’s in Constitutional Law and State Theory and a Bachelor’s degree in Law both in Brazil, and a BA in History.
ERINI YEMENTIZIS
Erini is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Strathclyde in the UK, where she is currently pursuing her doctorate in the field of Law. Erini’s areas of interest span the legal field, ranging from competition law to data protection and technology. Her research currently delves into the intricate world of digital platforms within the digital economy. Erini’s primary focus is on the market power held by these digital giants and the regulatory landscapes that govern them across various countries.
Federico Jorge Gaxiola Lappe
Federico Jorge Gaxiola Lappe is a JSD student from Mexico at NYU. He completed an LL.M. in Legal Theory at NYU as a Hauser Global Scholar and a Bachelor of Arts in Law at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. He worked for approximately 6 years at the National Supreme Court of Mexico, where he was a judicial assistant to Justice Cossío Díaz and Justice Medina Mora, and a law clerk to Justice González Alcántara Carrancá. In 2022, Jorge was professor at Escuela Libre de Derecho, where he taught the course Legal Theory. Jorge is interested in the way in which law deals with and resolves conflicts of values. Particularly, he is interested in researching new challenges to democratic practices, like the proliferation of disinformation, that require us to adjust preconceptions about how human rights and democratic processes operate as reciprocal limits and conditions to each other, and about the value of acknowledging the existence of conflict, moral remainders, and moral loss.
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