About the speakers
Jean-Rémi de Maistre
Jean-Rémi is a graduate of the University of Paris Nanterre, where he specialized in international arbitration and public international law. He has acted for sovereign States before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as an associate of Professor Alain Pellet. He co-founded Jus Mundi, the search engine for international law and arbitration, which is now used by several governments (France, Russia, Canada, Japan, UK, etc.), leading international arbitration law firms (Shearman, Freshfields, DLA Piper, Debevoise & Plimpton, Clifford Chance, Dechert, Allen & Overy, Eversheds, Foley Hoag, Three Crowns, Curtis, etc.) and universities worldwide (Harvard, Sorbonne, Max Planck Institute, Kyoto University, etc.).
James Hollway
James Hollway is Associate Professor of International Relations/Political Science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. There he is affiliated with the Center for International Environmental Studies (CIES), the Center for Trade and Economic Integation (CTEI), and the Global Governance Center (GGC). His research focuses on developing multilevel and dynamic network theories, methods, and data for studying institutionalised cooperation and conflict on trade and environmental issues such as fisheries and freshwater. Recent work has been published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Global Environmental Politics, International Environmental Agreements, Social Networks, and the Journal of International Economic Law. His first book “Multimodal Political Networks”, together with coauthors David Knoke, Mario Diani, and Dimitris Christopoulos, is coming out early next year with Cambridge University Press. He has also recently begun a 4-year SNSF funded project “Power and Networks and the Rate of Change in Institutional Complexes”.
Michal Ovádek
Michal Ovádek is a policy adviser in the European Parliament and an affiliated researcher at the Centre of Empirical Jurisprudence, KU Leuven. He defended his PhD thesis entitled “The Law and Politics of Contested Competences in the European Union” at KU Leuven in September 2020. Michal has published extensively on various aspects of European integration, including legal politics, trade and the rule of law. He is the creator of the eurlex R package for programmatic access to European law.
Rodrigo Polanco
Rodrigo Polanco is a senior researcher, lecturer and academic coordinator of Advanced MasterProgrammes at the World Trade Institute (WTI), University of Bern, and a Legal Adviser for Spanish-speaking jurisdictions at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Chile (Faculty of Law and Institute of International Studies), and a co-founder
and member of the board of Fiscalía del Medio Ambiente (FIMA), a Chilean non-profit environmental organisation. Rodrigo is a former assistant professor of international economic law at the University of Chile Faculty of Law, where he also served as the Director of International Affairs. He is also a lecturer and former postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luzern (The Governance of Big Data in Trade Agreements: Design, Diffusion and Implications – NFP 75). Rodrigo holds a Bachelor and a Master of Laws from Universidad de Chile, an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University and a PhD in Law from the University of Bern, specialised in international investment law.
Ezgi Yildiz
Ezgi Yildiz works at the Global Governance Center, Graduate Institute, Geneva. She is the Principal Investigator for Testing the Focal Point Theory of International Adjudication: An Empirical Analysis of the ICJ’s Impact on Maritime Delimitation project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is also the Postdoctoral Researcher for the Paths of International Law: Stability and Change in the International Legal Order (PATHS) project funded by the European Research Council. Ezgi holds a PhD in International Relations with a Minor in International Law (summa cum laude with distinction) from the Graduate Institute, Geneva. Ezgi’s research focuses on the politics of international law, international courts and tribunals and legal change. Previously, Ezgi was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in, inter alia, European Journal of International Law, Temple Journal of International and Comparative Law, and Journal of Human Rights Practice.
MODERATED BY
Wolfgang Alschner
An empirical legal scholar specialized in international economic law and the computational analysis of law. He is a permanent faculty member of the Common Law Section with cross-appointment to the Faculty of Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is also a faculty member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and the director of Legal Tech Lab at the University of Ottawa.
