Alberto Alemanno. Alberto is Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law & Risk Regulation at HEC Paris and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law. He is the author of Trade in Food – Regulatory and Judicial Approaches in the EU and the WTO (Cameron May, 2007) and Governing Disasters – The Challenges of Emergency Risk Regulation (Edward Elgar, 2011). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Risk Regulation and the scientific director of the Summer Academy in Global Food Law & Policy.

Kenneth A. Armstrong is Professor of European Union Law at Queen Mary, University of London.  Professor Armstrong has written widely in the field of European Union law and policy with a particular focus on the evolving governance structures of the EU. Professor Armstrong’s book Governing Social Inclusion: Europeanization through Policy Coordination was published by Oxford University Press in 2010 and won the 2011 UACES Best Book Prize.

Dr Stuart Baran. Stuart is the pupil at Three New Square, the specialist intellectual property chambers of Simon Thorley QC.  After taking a first in Chemistry at Jesus College, Oxford, Stuart studied for his DPhil in Physical Chemistry at Balliol College, investigating new laser-based gas detection methods.  During his doctorate, Stuart started his involvement with the Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot and Conversazione, an event which he continues to chair, and which was referred to as a “highlight of the international IP calendar” by the World Intellectual Property Review.  He was called to the Bar in July 2011.

Dr Gunnar Beck. Gunnar is an EU lawyer and legal philosopher at the School of Oriental and African Studies. His book “Fichte and Kant on freedom, rights and law” offers a new interpretation of the relationship between Kant’s and Fichte’s theories of freedom and their doctrines of rights. At present Gunnar is engaged in a study entitled “The European Court of Justice and Legal Reasoning”. Gunnar has published numerous academic articles in EU law, legal and political philosophy. Gunnar regularly presents seminars, lectures and other training sessions at leading City law firms on the EU Constitutional Treaty, the issue of Kompetenz-Kompetenz, the EU Reform Treaty, comitology and developments in EU citizenship and human rights law. He is also a Barrister and Door Tenant at Henderson Chambers.

Christopher Brown. Christopher is a barrister at Matrix Chambers and co-founder of the EUtopialaw blog. He practises general EU law and competition law. He also teaches on the LLM at Queen Mary, University of London. He writes frequently on all aspects of EU and competition law and was a UK rapporteur at the XXIV FIDE Congress in Madrid.

Joanna Buckley. Joanna joined Matrix as a trainee in October 2011. She intends to build a broad practice in domestic and international law.   Prior to joining the Bar, Joanna worked as an information analyst with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and as a political adviser to the Special Representative of the European Union in Afghanistan. Based in Afghanistan from 2005 to 2009, Joanna provided policy advice and analysis in the areas of good governance and the rule of law, specifically on the reform of the Afghan National Police.

Kate Cook. Kate is a barrister at Matrix Chambers. Kate practises generally in the areas of European Union, public international, human rights, and domestic public law, with a particular expertise in environmental law. She regularly advises NGOs, international organisations and others on European and WTO issues in areas such as animal welfare and environmental protection, most recently on amendments to the EU restrictions on trade in seal skins and on controls on international trade in timber.

Claire Darwin. Claire is a barrister at Matrix Chambers, and specialises in Employment, Discrimination, Public and Commercial Law. Many of Claire’s cases concern the European Union and human rights aspects of employment law.  Claire’s recent EU work has involved advising an employer on whether a UK statute creates an obstacle to the free movement of workers. Claire has been instructed in a number of perception or associative discrimination cases which concern the interpretation of the Framework Directive (including J v DLA Piper [2010] ICR 1052).

Anita Davies. Anita is a legal information officer at Matrix. Anita supports the legal and library information enquiry service, and tracks developments in human rights, international, EU and prison law. Anita recently completed the BPTC at City Law School. Before doing the law conversion course in 2009 she worked for a number of human rights organisations, including the United Nations Relief Works Agency, as a public information officer. She studied history at Cambridge University.

Sophie Duxson. Sophie is a second year law student in the postgraduate Juris Doctor program at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. She has an undergraduate degree in International Relations and Spanish from the Australian National University. She also spent a semester at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, where she studied political science and political philosophy in Spanish, before interning at Transparency International in Argentina. She has lived and worked in Hungary, sparking a life-long interest in the politics of Eastern and Central Europe.

Dr Oliver Gerstenberg. Oliver is a Reader in Law and Director of the centre of International Governance at the University of Leeds. He is Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), University of London (2011-2012) and a former LAPA Fellow at Princeton (2004-2005). JKF Fellow at Center for European Studies, Harvard University (2001-2002); J Monnet Fellow at EUI (1999-2000); Wiss. Mitarb. JWG University of Frankfurt/M (1991-1992) and Bremen (1995-2000); Chercheur at Centre de P du Droit, UC de Louvain-la-neuve (1990-1991); and Prom-Stipendum at Gradueirtenfoerderung d.Landes Hessen.

Nicholas Gibson. EU law permeates Nicholas’s practice at Matrix chambers, where he advises on all aspects of competition law, procurement, consumer, telecoms and utilities regulation as well as general EU, commercial and public law matters.  Prior to joining Matrix, Nicholas worked for seven and half years at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, specialising in contentious competition and general EU law.  He has written for the Cambridge Law Journal and European Human Rights Law Review, and taught on the LLM at King’s College London.

Prof. Peter L. Lindseth. Peter  is the Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law (USA). He holds a BA and JD from Cornell and a PhD in European history from Columbia.  His most recent books are Power and Legitimacy: Reconciling Europe and the Nation-State (OUP 2010) and Comparative Administrative Law (Edward Elgar 2010).  He has taught at Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, as well as several European institutions. His fellowships include stints at the American Academy in Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, the European University Institute, and the French Council of State.

Dr Cormac Mac Amhlaigh. Cormac is lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He studied law in Belfast and Dublin before being awarded his Ph.D in law by the European University Institute in Florence, Italy which he wrote on the concept of the state in European constitutionalism. His research interests lie generally in the area of public law, with a particular focus on the areas of UK Constitutional law, Public Law and Constitutional Theory, The theory and practice of human rights law and Post-state law and constitutionalism.

Angus MacCulloch.  Angus is a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University Law School.  His research interests lie primarily in Competition Law, particularly antitrust and enforcement issues, but he retains a wider interest in EU Law, Regulation, White Collar Crime, and IP.  The majority of his recent work focuses on the impact of the introduction of the UK’s cartel offence and the wider global move towards the criminalisation of cartel activity. 

Sara Mansoori. Sara joined Matrix in 2011. She is an established junior recommended in both Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500. Sara has a wide range of experience and practices in all areas of media and information law (including defamation, privacy and confidence, data protection, freedom of information, harassment, and copyright), human rights law and public law. Before joining Matrix, Sara was a Senior Lawyer at the Ministry of Justice in their Information and Human Rights team and, prior to that, she was a tenant at 5RB for 10 years.

John Morijn. John works as a human rights adviser with the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and teaches European human rights law at the University of Groningen. John  studied EU law at the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium) and holds a European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (Venice, Italy) and a PHD  from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is co-editor of the Dutch law journal European Human Rights Cases. He contributes in a personal capacity.

Aidan O’Neill QC. Aidan is a barrister at Matrix Chambers and co-founder of the EUtopialaw blog. In addition to law degrees from Edinburgh and Sydney universities, Aidan holds a degree in European and International and Comparative law from the European University Institute, Florence. He has written three legal text books, including EU Law for UK Lawyers and Decisions of the European Court of Justice and their constitutional implications.

Prof. Aurora Plomer. Aurora is Professor of Law and Bioethics and Director of the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology, Law and Ethics at the University of Sheffield. She has published widely on the intersection between biomedical law, bioethics European bio-rights and patents in international journals and was the PI of the FP6 EU funded project ‘Embryonic Stem Cell Patents: European Law and Ethics’. The co-edited collection based on the project ‘Embryonic Stem Cell Patents: European Law and Ethics’ was published by OUP in 2009. She is currently researching the impact of EU accession to the ECHR on institutional and normative integration of fundamental rights and biolaw in Europe and is writing a book on the right to access the benefits of science in Article 27 UDHR and Article 15 ICESCR:  ‘Human Rights, Property Rights and Emerging Biotechnologies’ (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012).

Andrew Smith.  Andrew is a barrister at Matrix. He practises predominantly in employment and discrimination law. He also undertakes work in the fields of sports law, personal injury, commercial and education law. He is a contributor to the discrimination law section of Jordan’s Employment Law. THe has recently delivered seminars to Instructing Solicitors on a variety of topics, including the Equality Act 2010, the Agency Workers Regulations 2010, disability discrimination, High Court bonus claims and equal pay.

Dr Iyiola Solanke. Iyiola is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds and Visiting Professor at Wake Forest University Law School, USA. She lectures on European Union Law and Anti-Discrimination Law. She is an Academic Fellow of the Inner Temple and Visiting Fellow at the European Institute, LSE. She was previously a Jean Monnet Fellow at the University of Michigan Law School. She has published on judicial independence and diversity, intersectionality and race relations in Britain and Germany. Her monograph, The Evolution of Anti-Racial Discrimination Law in Britain and Germany, was published by Routledge in 2011 (paperback). She holds a PhD in Law from the London School of Economics.

Greg Weeks. Greg is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and a member of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at the University of New South Wales.  He teaches the Administrative Law and Advanced Administrative Law courses at UNSW and has previously taught Torts, Contracts and Legal Ethics at other institutions.  Greg’s research interests are primarily related to judicial review and he has published a number of articles in this field.  He is currently in the final stages of writing a doctoral thesis on the remedies available when public authorities fail to adhere to their own soft law instruments.

David Wolfe. David is a public lawyer at Matrix, a Commissioner (non-executive director) at the Legal Services Commission and a Board Member of the Legal Services Board. He is a patron of the Advisory Centre for Education (ACE). Until July 2008, he was a part-time Chair of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal.

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