Holds a PhD in Modern History from the University of Barcelona. He was a Professor at the University of Barcelona between 2007 and 2012. Since 2007 he has been a Professor in the Faculty of Humanities in the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. He was also Vice-Dean of this faculty until 2015. His main fields of research, linked to the history of culture, focus on the Catalan historiography of the Modern Era, the study of Spanish missions in the Pacific Ocean in the Modern Era and the geopolitical field of the Balkans, particularly Albania.
He has published 10 monographs and more than 40 research articles.
Recent publications:
-Misioneros en el Pacífico: los intentos de evangelización de las islas Carolinas y Palaos (1710-1733), Girona: Documenta Universitaria, 2013.
-En los confines del Nuevo Mundo: cartas y documentos de Filipina Duchesne (1769-1852). Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 2014.
-Along with Anastasi Prodani: Nieremberg, Aforismos y fragmentos sobre la naturaleza humana. Aforizma dhe fragmente mbi natyrën njerëzore. Tirana: EDFA, 2016 (Spanish/Albanian bilingual edition).
Maria Chochorelou
Researcher
Maria Chochorelou specialises in Public and Private International Law, and in particular International Commercial Law, International Investment Law, eCommerce and International Human Rights Law.
Maria obtained her Bachelor of Law degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and did an exchange semester at the Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV. She then pursued a Master’s Degree in Public International Law at the University of Amsterdam majoring in International Trade and Investment Law. She is also a member of the Athens Bar Association.
She worked as an intern at the UN Commission on Trade and Investment Law (UNCITRAL), where she conducted research into the UNCITRAL Arbitration rules, Rotterdam Rules and Sustainable Development Goals. She has also worked as a lawyer in both Greece and the Netherlands.
She joined the UIC as a PhD candidate in 2015 and she is writing her thesis on multinational corporations as subjects of international trade along with the role of investment. She is studying the rights granted to them under ISDS provisions inserted into international and bilateral agreements and the ways to balance this new reality.
Xavier Garí de Barbarà
Researcher
Holder of a PhD in Contemporary History from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, a Master’s degree in Comparative History, a Diploma in the Culture of Peace and a Postgraduate degree in Mediation and Conflict Resolution. He was formerly an associate lecturer at Ramon Llull University in Barcelona and at the Open University of Catalonia, and is currently a lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities in the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, where he is also a researcher at the Charlemagne Institute for European Studies. He is a member of the research team at the Centre for International Historical Studies (University of Barcelona), coordinates the Religion and Peace Group within the Centre for Christian Studies and Justice, and works on different projects at the Catalan International Institute for Peace, in the Catalan Government. His fields of research include (a) The History of Peace, Conflict and Violence, (b) the History of Europe and Contemporary International Relations, and (c) the History of the Church and Religion.
Dr Gérardine Goh Escolar
Researcher
Dr Gérardine Goh Escolar specialises in Public International Law and Technology Law as well as International Investment Law and Commercial Law.
Geri is currently Legal Adviser to the President of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal. Her work includes acting as a secretary for arbitration tribunals and as an advisor in multiple investment and commercial arbitrations between States governed by the Arbitration Regulation frameworks of the ICC, ICSID and UNCITRAL. Geri has more than a decade of teaching experience and directing academic research into a variety of legal programmes in the Netherlands, Germany, China and Singapore. She currently holds the position of Visiting Lecturer at the National University of Singapore’s Centre for International Law and is Brandon Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Lauterpacht Centre for International Law.
Geri began her career in the field of technology law as General Counsel of a satellite company as well as Legal Adviser to the German government, advising the German mission to the United Nations. Her most recent professional experience includes four years as the lead legal advisor in the office of Sir Christopher Greenwood, CMG, QC, a Judge at the International Court of Justice.
Geri won the Diederiks-Verschoor Medal in 2003 and then, in 2010, the Social Science Book Award of the International Academy of Astronautics for her research work. Geri is also a contributor to the International Law Reports (Cambridge UP) and the Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals (Intersentia). She is currently working on her fourth book: International Law and Outer Space (Oxford UP: available in 2016).
Geri earned a Degree in Law at the Universities of Singapore, University College of London and the University of Leiden. She is also a member of the New York State Bar Association.
Hermann Hokou
Researcher
Hermann Hokou is a Research Assistant and Training Coordinator at the Université des Lagunes in Abidjan-Côte d’Ivoire. Holder of a postgraduate degree in International Law, he also holds a Certificate from The Hague Academy of International Law. He is currently working on International Subjectivity. He has undertaken projects and studies on a number of topics including Global and Local Governance and Democracy in Africa. He is an Assistant Lecturer in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
Eduard Martí Fraga (Lleida 1979)
ORCID: 0000-0002-9231-903X
Holder of a degree in Humanities from Pompeu Fabra University (2001) and a PhD in Modern History from the Jaume Vicens Vives University History Institute (2008). He is accredited as a tenure-track lecturer (AQU 2010) and has also had a six-year research period recognised (AQU 2017). He won the XXX Ferran Soldevila Award (2014). He is a member of various consolidated research groups: one of the research groups focuses on "La política exterior de Felipe V y su repercusión en España (1713-1740)" (HAR 2014-52645-P) and another consolidated group is called the "Grup d'Estudi de les Institucions i de les Cultures Polítiques” (2014-SGR-1369) and finally, he is also involved in the "Proyecto de los Libros de matrícula de las insaculaciones (Libros del alma) de la ciudad de Barcelona (1498 -1713)” PR2015-S01-Serra (Institute for Catalan Studies). He is the author of the following three books: La conferencia de los Tres Comunes (Milenio, 2008), La Classe Dirigent Catalana. Els membres de la Conferencia dels Comuns i del Braç Militar (Noguera Foundation, 2009) and El Braç Militar de Catalunya, 1602-1714 (Universitat de València Publications, 2006). His research focuses on the study of Catalan and European institutions during the Modern Era, social changes among the European nobility, and the economic, political and social impact of the European military policies implemented by Felipe V.
Miguel Ángel Medina Abellán
Investigador
Is an expert in European and International Affairs and a university Professor. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, a Master's degree in European Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges and a degree in political science from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
He has extensive teaching, research and practical experience in international relations, in areas such as the European Union, diplomacy, negotiation and foreign affairs, international organisations, international law and the Mediterranean. He has worked in different European countries (including Belgium, the United Kingdom and Turkey) and he is particularly competent in the area of multicultural work.
He is the author and editor of various publications on international policies, the European Union, safety and defence, and also international law. He has organised and spoken at seminars, international conferences and courses on international policy, and he is an advisor for various educational associations.
He has participated as a lead researcher in two international projects with state funding, and as an associate researcher in various projects. His current lines of research and teaching are international operations to maintain peace, security and defence, multilateral diplomacy, international humanitarian law and the Euro-Mediterranean area.
He is currently working as a parliamentary advisor for the Ciudadanos political party in the Parliament of Catalonia and as a Professor of International Relations in various universities.
Monserrat Nebrera González
Researcher
Holder of a degree in Law, Political Law and Classic Literature from the University of Barcelona, she attained her PhD from the same university in 1989.
She has held research grants from the Ministry for Education and Science (predoctoral and postdoctoral grants for doctors and technologists), the Ramón Areces Foundation, the Ministry for Public Works, the Institute for Autonomic Studies, and both the Spanish and Italian Ministries for Foreign Affairs.
She has been a professor of constitutional law at the universities of Barcelona, Lleida, Alcalá de Henares and Pompeu Fabra University, and from there she moved to UIC Barcelona in 1997. She was a visiting professor at Rome--La Sapienza, and ULACYT (Costa Rica), among others.
At UIC Barcelona she was vice-rector for the university community, vice-dean of the Faculty of Law and director of the Centre of Advanced Social Studies. She is currently director of the Area of Constitutional Law at UIC Barcelona.
At an extracurricular level, she was formerly an MP in the Catalan Parliament (2006-2009), is a substitute Magistrate for the Provincial Court, and was formerly the Coordinator for Constitutional and Statutory Law at the College of Policing in Barcelona (now called the Institute for Public Safety), head of social studies at the Cambó Institute (Private Foundation) and is a spokesperson for the Cercle d’Economia. She regularly works with various Catalan media outlets. Her lines of research include: security and legal security, political parties, and constitutional reform. In relation to the latter, she is currently studying the eventual creation of a European constitutional power that is jurisprudent in nature.
Natalia Ochoa
Researcher
Natalia Ochoa holds a degree and a doctorate in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid, in addition to a diploma from the Centre for Studies and Research of The Hague Academy of International Law (2001). She also has a Maîtrise in Law (specialisation: Law in the Countries of the European Union) from the University of Rouen in France. She has been accredited as a Private University PhD Contracted Lecturer and as a PhD Lecturer by both ANECA (the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation) and ACAP (the Agency for Quality Accreditation and Perspectives).
She currently teaches at the Camilo José Cela University of Madrid where she is the coordinator of the Degree in Criminology. Previously she taught International Public Law and International Organisations at the University of Zaragoza and the European University of Madrid and was a consultant for the Open University of Catalonia. She has taught at the Complutense University of Madrid as part of a scholarship for Training University Lecturers (FPU) granted by the Ministry of Education and Science.
She is the author of Los mecanismos convencionales de protección de los derechos humanos en las Naciones Unidas (Conventional Human Rights Protection Mechanisms in the United Nations, published by Thomson Civitas in 2004), co-author of Manuales de Derecho Internacional Público (Manuals for Public International Law, published by Huygens), and numerous articles in specialist journals and in collective works in both Spanish and English. Her main specialist area is the international protection of human rights, although she has also worked on solving disputes involving the use of international watercourses, the legitimate use of force in defence and European Union Law.
She has lectured on Master’s and other postgraduate courses, participated in research projects and has taken part in numerous pre-doctoral and post-doctoral research project placements in centres abroad. Out of these the following should be highlighted: Harvard University’s European Law Research Center; the United Nations (Geneva and New York); the Peace Palace (The Hague) and the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg).
Cristina Olesti
Researcher
Maria Chochorelou specialises in Public and Private International Law, and in particular International Commercial Law, International Investment Law, eCommerce and International Human Rights Law.
Maria obtained her Bachelor of Law degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and did an exchange semester at the Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV. She then pursued a Master’s Degree in Public International Law at the University of Amsterdam majoring in International Trade and Investment Law. She is also a member of the Athens Bar Association.
She worked as an intern at the UN Commission on Trade and Investment Law (UNCITRAL), where she conducted research into the UNCITRAL Arbitration rules, Rotterdam Rules and Sustainable Development Goals. She has also worked as a lawyer in both Greece and the Netherlands.
She joined the UIC as a PhD candidate in 2015 and she is writing her thesis on multinational corporations as subjects of international trade along with the role of investment. She is studying the rights granted to them under ISDS provisions inserted into international and bilateral agreements and the ways to balance this new reality.
Miquel Urmeneta
Researcher
He is the holder of a degree in Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a University Master's Degree in Communication Company Management from the University of Navarra. He has been involved in developing strategic communication and product marketing projects for agencies, start-ups and different organisations for more than 10 years.
He has been an assistant lecturer in the Faculty of Communication at UIC Barcelona since 2010. In 2015 he began his doctoral studies in the department of Media, Communication and Culture (at the UAB) undertaking research on public opinion and social networks. He is interested in the role of institutions and the cultural background of public debate. In the case of the European Union, he focuses on the credibility of communitarian institutions and initiatives within the cultural field such as the ‘New Narrative for Europe' set up by the Barroso Commission. In the Institute he is responsible for coordinating cultural activities and the area of communication.
Maciej Żenkiewicz
Researcher
Maciej Zenkiewicz specialises in Public International Law, International Investment Law and Human Rights.
Maciej currently holds the post of Assistant Lecturer in Public International Law at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torún, Poland. His previous experience in International Law includes two periods as a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge as well as being employed as an Assistant Consul of the Republic of Peru. He also worked as an election observer during the EU mission to Peru. His most recent professional experience includes working for a think tank in London.
Maciej was awarded the ‘Diploma in An Introduction to English Law and the Law of the European Union’, (University of Cambridge) and the Diploma in Spanish Law (University of Warsaw/University of Valencia). He has published a number of articles on International Law, with particular reference to the problem of the responsibility of international companies in respect of human rights violations. He has also presented his work at several international conferences. More recently he has concentrated on the issue of property expropriation.