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Research Students

Magdalena Zabrocka

Magdalena is a Teaching Fellow at the School of Law. Her interests include European Union law, international human rights and public law. Magdalena’s past research covered the areas of minority rights and vulnerable groups with a focus on women’s reproductive rights, the rule of law and feminist legal scholarship. She co-authored a study commissioned by European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) on ‘The Use of SLAPPs to Silence Journalists, NGOs and Civil Society’. Magdalena’s current research concerns citizenship and residence by investment (CBI/RBI) schemes in EU Member States.

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Mr Nurullah Benli

After graduating from Ankara University Law School with a LLB in 2016, Nurullah Benli was hired by the Internet Service Providers Associations of Turkey (ESB). He established communication channels between Content Providers and Internet Service Providers in order to ensure the proper implementation of courts' decisions addressing the violation of Turkish law on the Internet. Nurullah was awarded a scholarship by the National Education Ministry of Turkey for LLM and PhD studies in the UK. He completed his LLM in International Law at the University of Sussex in 2019. He began his PhD studies at the University of Aberdeen in 2021. His doctoral research focuses on the implementation of State sovereignty in cyberspace under international law.

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Mr Gabriel Emeasoba

Gabriel Emeasoba is a graduate of the University of Lagos. After being called to the Nigerian bar in 2018, he worked as a legal associate in a commercial law firm in Lagos, Nigeria, before joining the University of Aberdeen for his LLM, where he excellently majored in International Commercial Law. His sterling performance contributed to his being awarded a PhD Merit Scholarship by the Faculty of Law, University of Aberdeen for his doctorate research, which focuses on developing legal standards for electronic trade and trade financing. He has background in Philosophy and Education, and is a qualified arbitrator, mediator and teacher.

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Mr Josselin Lavigne

After completing a Masters in Public International Law at Oxford, Josselin Lavigne had the opportunity to do an internship at the United Nations, the year of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. It was during this year that he had the chance to talk to space lawyers who told me about the urgency of the situation: that of a legal framework that is less and less respected, and increasingly present private and state ambitions. It was from there that Josselin decided to become a space lawyer by starting a PhD in space law. It has been over two years since he started this research on the right to self-determination in outer space at the University of Aberdeen. Thus, Josselin has the chance to be part of the Société Française de Droit Aérien et Spatial in Paris, which allows him to attend certain meetings which bring together specialists in the field. It seems to him that the disputes in outer space that humanity will face in the decades to come should not be taken lightly and that we need to increase awareness of space law from a pedagogical angle.

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Ms Enenu Onyikwu Okwori

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Mr Ijud Tajudin

Ijud Tajudin is a lecturer at the Department of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia. He obtained bachelor and master degree in Criminal Law from Universitas Padjadjaran and has been teaching at the faculty of law for almost 15 years with specific expertise on criminal law and criminal procedure law. He joined the School of Law as a PGR Student in April 2021 and is being supervised by Professor Partain and Professor Gyorfi. Besides his teaching experiences, he also has extensive experience as a member of legal aid team at the Universitas Padjadjaran, which provides legal aid to people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Ijud is also an experienced expert witness that give advices and opinions to the Police, Prosecutor and Court and has handled more than 100 criminal cases. Ijud has also become Universitas Padjadjaran lawyer and represents Universitas Padjadjaran in administrative court.

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