We are excited to welcome a group of scholars arriving in 2026. These distinguished scholars represent a wide spectrum of legal expertise—will advance collaborative research and deepen scholarly dialogue.
| Mr Zachary Cooper
Weizenbaum Institute, Germany2/02/2026 - 19 02/2026 Zachary Cooper is a legal scholar, lecturer and public speaker at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin and the Amsterdam Law and Technology Institute. His current research program into the law and economics of AI-generated media has been presented at the European Parliament, and has been consulted by lawyers in US federal lawsuits and by reporters from NPR and Bloomberg Law. |
| Associate Professor Narelle Bedford
Bond University , Australia3/02/2026 - 1/02/2026 Narelle Bedford is a Yuin woman and Associate Professor in Law at Bond University. She holds a PhD from the University of Queensland, an LLM from ANU, and Bachelors of Law and Economics from Macquarie University. Her research interests are Administrative Law and First Nations Peoples and the Law. |
| Professor Katharine Young
Boston College, United States3/02/2026 - 30/06/2026 Katharine Young is Professor and the Robert A. Trevisani Dean’s Faculty Fellow at Boston College Law School. She is a graduate of Melbourne Law School and Harvard University, and recently she served as the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. |
 | Dr Arthur Guera Filho
University of São Paulo, Brazil5/02/2026 - 30/04/2026
Arthur is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of São Paulo, funded by a FAPESP fellowship, Brazil’s most prestigious postdoctoral award. He was a Hauser Global Fellow at NYU Law, with a PhD in Law from King’s College London and an LLM from UC Berkeley. His work explores constitutional and election law comparatively. |
| Mr Arinç Onat Kiliç
University of Antwerp, Belgium16/02/2026 - 12/05/2026 Arınç Onat Kılıç is a researcher in law at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Human Rights Law from Lund University, Sweden. His current research is a socio-legal examination of blue bond modalities in the context of international law of sustainable finance. |
| Professor Thomas Kleinlein
Walther Schücking Institute for International Law
Kiel University, Germany23/02/2026 - 27/03/2026 Thomas Kleinlein is currently a professor at the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law in Kiel, Germany. He has also held visiting researcher and visiting professor positions at Yale, Michigan, Paris-Panthéon-Assas and Oslo universities. On 1 April 2026, he will take up a professorship at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. |
| Professor Angela Schwerdtfeger
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany23/02/2026 - 27/03/2026 Angela Schwerdtfeger holds a Chair of Public Law at the Free University of Berlin. She has also been a professor at Göttingen University and a visiting researcher at the universities of Michigan and Oslo. Her research interests include environmental and climate law, particularly access to justice, and crisis legislation. |
| Professor Georg Kofler
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria6/03/2026 - 27/04/2026 Georg Kofler, LLM, is professor of international taxation at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna), Austria. Georg has worked in the field of taxation for more than 25 years. |
| Professor Carlos Vázquez
Georgetown University, United States30/03/2026 - 29/05/2026 Carlos Manuel Vázquez is the Associate Dean for Graduate and International Programs and The Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law. Dean Vazquez has written and taught primarily in the areas of international law, constitutional law, and federal courts. |