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Jacco Bomhoff is associate professor at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law School, where he teaches courses on Conflict of Laws and Comparative Law. His main research interest is in the comparative and cultural study of legal doctrines and reasoning practices, like proportionality review or choice-of-law techniques. Part of his work deals with comparisons between law and legal thought in Europe and in the United States, with a special focus on the mid-twentieth-century origins of contemporary legal institutions. His monograph ‘Balancing Constitutional Rights: The Origins and Meanings of Postwar Legal Discourse’ was runner-up for the Birks Prize in 2015.

Nafay Choudhury’s socio-legal research sits at the intersection of legal pluralism, private governance, economic development, and legal anthropology, with a focus on fragile settings. His research explores the fragmented and plural forms of order that exist within the state, alongside the state, and beyond the state. He has conducted fieldwork in Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, and Malaysia. 

Alperen Gözlügöl's expertise and interests include corporate law and governance, capital markets law and financial regulation. Among others, he teaches and researches on the political economy of the EU legislation and policymaking on corporate and capital markets law, on the EU sustainable finance policy, and on the empirical effects of the EU legislation and jurisprudence on corporate law.

Veerle Heyvaert is a Professor of Law at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law School. She teaches on the subjects of regulation and environmental law, and conducts research focusing on risk regulation and transnational environmental law. She is a Founding Editor of the journal Transnational Environmental Law and an Associate of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate and the Environment. 

Marie Petersmann's research lies at the interface between international environmental law, human rights and critical legal theory. Her work focuses on the material, subjective, spatial, and temporal boundaries of socio-ecological harms in a changing climate, and explores new strategies for reparative legal actions and climate justice. She is currently working on a project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) on Anthropocene Legalities: Reconfiguring Legal Relations within More-than-human Worlds (2022-2025). Her book, When Environmental Protection and Human Rights Collide: The Politics of Conflict Management by Regional Courts, was published with Cambridge University Press in 2022. She sits on the Editorial Board of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (RECIEL).

Igor Stramignoni has taught generations of graduate and undergraduate students around the world. He has published widely in as diverse fields as European law, legal history, comparative legal studies, law and literature, contemporary theory, and visual studies. At ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, he convenes an award-winning course on the history of law in Europe and is rumoured to have designed the first-ever postgraduate seminars to be offered in the UK on the complex interplay between material and legal-political space. 

Sarah Trotter’s research is mostly about how the human condition is imagined in European human rights law, and she is currently writing a book about this. She is particularly interested in the assumptions that are made in law about how we relate to one another and ourselves. Her most recent work in this context concerns the way in which relationships were legally constructed and portrayed in the context of the COVID-19 concept of the ‘support bubble’; the meaning of the ‘right to hope’ in European human rights law; the construction of notions of truth and reality in family law (particularly in contexts in which the meaning of knowing comes into question); and the role of ideas about absence, loss, and lack in the context of the construction of the category of personal identity in European human rights law.

Mike Wilkinson works in the areas of constitutional theory, European integration, and legal, political, and social theory. His monograph on Authoritarian Liberalism and the Transformation of Modern Europe (OUP, 2021) was selected as one of . He recently co-edited a collection on a new approach to the study of constitutional law, The Cambridge Handbook on the Material Constitution (CUP, 2023), which was the feature of a .

Floris de Witte is a Professor at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law School. His research focuses on different aspects of EU law, including constitutional law, citizenship law, and EU legal geography. Floris is the co-author of a leading textbook in EU law (CUP, 2022) and teaches on a range of courses in EU law in the LLB and LLM. He is an affiliated member of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ European Institute.

Jan Zglinski is Assistant Professor at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law School and Research Fellow of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law. His conducts research on EU constitutional and internal market law, with a particular focus on empirical legal methods, as well as on sports law and policy.