Academic Fellows

Beginning his term in 2023.

Niccolò Ridi is a Lecturer in Public International Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, and a Research Fellow in the Human Rights Nudge project at iCourts, the University of Copenhagen. He previously worked at the University of Liverpool and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and holds degrees from the Universities of Florence, Cambridge, and London (KCL). His research focusses on international dispute settlement, the computational analysis of international law, artificial intelligence in legal reasoning and decision making, as well as private international law and foreign relations law.

Dr Maxence Rivoire is a Lecturer in French Law and the Deputy Director of the LLB in English Law and Master 1 in French Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. His research mainly focuses on private international law, international arbitration, and intellectual property, with a strong emphasis on the comparative aspects of these disciplines.

Qualified and admitted to practice in France, Maxence was previously an international arbitration associate at Freshfields in Paris. In this role, he represented clients in several international arbitrations under a variety of applicable laws in the energy, new technologies, oil and gas, and construction sectors. Maxence also acted for clients before French courts, including the Paris Court of Appeal and the Court of Cassation.

Maxence holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, a Magister Juris from the University of Oxford, an LLM in Private International Law and International Commercial Law from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and an LLB from the University of Grenoble. He has also studied on a year-long exchange at McGill University.

Ekaterina Aristova is an academic and lawyer specialising in the field of business and human rights. Her work focuses on strategic human rights and environmental litigation. She examines how conventional private law doctrines evolve in response to global challenges and are used creatively in different jurisdictions to foster human rights and environmental accountability. Ekaterina is the author of ‘Tort Litigation against Transnational Corporations: The Challenge of Jurisdiction in English Courts’ (Oxford University Press 2024), a revised manuscript of a PhD thesis completed at the University of Cambridge. She is also a co-editor of ‘Civil Remedies and Human Rights in Flux’ (Hart Publishing 2022) and ‘Civil Liability for Human Rights Violations: A Handbook for Practitioners’ (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights 2022).

Since 2019, Ekaterina has been a Research Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), where she convenes a course ‘Business and Human Rights - Real World Accountability’ and supervises postgraduate students. In 2019-2022, Ekaterina coordinated a project on civil liability for human rights violations funded by Oak Foundation. In 2022, she was awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to complete a project on corporate climate change litigation. Ekaterina is regularly invited as a guest lecturer and speaker to teach or talk about international litigation, ESG governance, climate change and business and human rights.  

In the last few years, Ekaterina also served as a consultant on several research projects that have sought to strengthen corporate accountability for human rights violations, including for the United Nations. Prior to commencing her academic career, she practised corporate law, specialising in all aspects of M&A transactions, completing a training contract in White & Case’s Moscow office before spending seven years as a senior in-house lawyer at two leading Russian investment companies.

Samuel Mortimer is the Intesa Sanpaolo Research Fellow at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and a research fellow at the Kyoto Institute of Philosophy. His research focuses on questions of moral responsibility (especially in the context of group action) and the nature and use of irreplaceable resources. Recently, he has written on the concept of authenticity.

Samuel has a PhD in Ethics and Legal Studies from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; an MS in Managerial Science and Applied Economics, also from the Wharton School; and a BA in Philosophy and Theology from the University of Oxford.

Jordan is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Magdalen College. His research focuses on private law, with a particular emphasis on contract law and property law. He is the co-author of the The Law of Tracing (Federation Press, 2021) and the author of a forthcoming monograph on contract law Discharge of Contractual Obligations (Oxford University Press, 2025). His work on asset recovery has also led to research on proceeds of crime laws, which straddle the civil-criminal law divide, and he is the co-author of an Australian text, Federal Proceeds of Crime Law (Thomson Reuters, 2024). Jordan's research has been cited widely, including by the High Court of Australia, the New South Wales Court of Appeal, the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia, and the England and Wales High Court (Commercial Court). 

Jordan teaches and lectures in Contract, Land Law, and A Roman Introduction to Private Law at the undergraduate level, and Commercial Remedies and Restitution of Unjust Enrichment at the postgraduate level. Before joining Magdalen in 2024, he had been a Supernumerary Teaching Fellow in Law at St John’s College, Oxford (2021–2024) and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at St Hilda’s College, Oxford (2020–2021).

Jordan holds a DPhil in Law and Bachelor of Civil Law (Dist) from the University of Oxford as well as a Bachelor of Laws (Hons I, Medal) and Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) from the University of Queensland. Before coming to Oxford he worked as a solicitor in dispute resolution at an international law firm and as an Associate to Justice James Edelman at the High Court of Australia. 

Sarah is an Assistant Professor at LSE Law School, where she teaches Family Law, Feminist Legal Theory, and Law, Poverty, and Access to Justice. Her research is mostly in the fields of European human rights law and family law and examines questions of the assumptions that are made in law about how we relate to one another and ourselves. 

Dr Rebecca Limb is a Lecture in Law at Southampton Law School with a specialist interest in Child Medical Law and Biomedical Law and Ethics with a particular passion for bridging the gap between medicine and the law. Through capturing, collecting, and engaging with the lived experiences of patients, children and those with disabilities, Rebecca’s research introduces previously absent and under-represented voices into the wider academic debate from which she seeks to change policy and clinical practice. Rebecca's research interests include children’s consent to and refusals of medical treatment, child organ donation, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on vulnerable people and compulsory child vaccination. At present, Rebecca is particularly focused on children’s participation in their health care – the topic of her forthcoming monograph published by Hart – and is currently working with children, healthcare professionals and lawyers to facilitate a culture of participation in children’s healthcare.

Josh is a Senior Lecturer working in legal theory at Newcastle Law School in the United Kingdom. His current research interest is in the concept of legal status in the natural law tradition, building on the theory defended in his award-winning monograph Agency, Morality and Law (Hart 2023). He has spent time as a visiting researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and in 2024 will be taking up a visiting position at the Library of Congress.

He is currently co-convenor of the Jurisprudence subject section within the Society of Legal Scholars, and serves as an institutional chair in the Juris North legal and political philosophy discussion group. He was the first in his family to attend university and remains heavily involved in outreach work to encourage greater participation in legal study from underrepresented groups.

Dr Pia Rebelo is an admitted attorney from South Africa and a lecturer in private law. She obtained her LLB and LLM at the University of Cape Town and completed her PhD at the City Law School, City, University of London. Her research interests are focused on the contractual mechanisms employed to facilitate and incentivise a green shipping transition. She has published work on green finance frameworks, green supply chain finance, climate clauses, climate litigation, and contractual solutions for energy efficiency.

Dr Eugenio Vaccari is Senior Lecturer in Law at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he teaches company, commercial and contract law. Eugenio is an active member of several leading institutions in the field, including III NextGen Class XI (member of the executive committee), INSOL International, INSOL Europe, the Insolvency Law Academy of India (co-chair of the Emerging Scholar Group) and the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association (UK).

Eugenio’s main areas of interest are the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of corporate insolvency law and abusive practices in insolvency, particularly in relation to the use of ipso facto clauses and the treatment of local public entities in distress. Recently, Eugenio co-edited with Prof Laura N Coordes and Prof Yseult Marique a global report on the treatment of local public entities in distress, to which he contributed with two chapters (available in the INSOL International Technical Library, 2022). He co-authored with Dr. Emilie Ghio the book English Corporate Insolvency Law: A Primer (Edward Elgar 2022) and co-edited with Prof. Jason Chuah the book Executory Contracts in Insolvency Law: A Global Guide (2^nd edn, Edward Elgar 2023). 

Dr Irene Antonopoulos joined Royal Holloway from De Montfort University in 2021. She has previously worked at the University of Surrey and the Council of Europe. Her work focuses on the interactions between human rights, migration and environmental degradation. Her recent research work includes the analysis of the human rights implications of the Agriculture Act 2020 and an examination of human rights obligations for the protection of 'climate migrants'.

Dr Mark Eccleston-Turner is a Senior Lecturer in Global Health Law. He specialises in infectious diseases and international law, particularly the law of international organizations, pathogen sharing and equitable access to vaccines in a pandemic.

Mark has provided advice to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Department for International Development, Department of Health, and is a member of UK Parliament COVID-19 Outbreak Expert Database. He has appeared as a witness before the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, and has provided evidence to the Joint Committee on the National Security.

He has held visiting positions at the Brocher Foundation, in Geneva, Georgetown University School of Law, and as an Emerging Leader in Biosecurity Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Centre for Health Security. He has also worked as a Consultant to the World Health Organisation.

Colm joined The Dickson Poon School of Law in January 2018 and acts as the module convenor for the Law of Tort.

Previously, he was the WYNG Research Fellow in Medical Law and Ethics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and was a member of the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences. Before that, he worked as a scientific assistant at the Institute for European Tort Law in Vienna and was a University Lecturer in Law at the University of Graz. He studied law as an undergraduate and as a doctoral student at the University of Cambridge.

Colm is joint General Editor of the long-running Journal of Professional Negligence and the Book Review Editor for the Journal of European Tort Law. He is a Fellow of the European Centre for Tort and Insurance Law in Vienna and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Rivista Responsabilita Medica. From 2018–2020 Colm was an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge where he lectured on Roman Law.

Born and raised in Belfast, Colm believes that studying law at university should be an option for anyone who wishes to do it, regardless of their background. He has extensive experience in providing accessible introductions to law for school students of all ages and is always happy to be asked to do so. When he is not surrounded by books, he enjoys blues guitar, cooking and hiking.

Luke Rostill is Associate Professor of Property Law in the Oxford Law Faculty and a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Trinity College. 

Luke read Jurisprudence (Law) at Wadham College, Oxford. He obtained his BA, winning the Wronker Prize for best overall performance in law finals, and remained at Wadham for the BCL, MPhil, and DPhil. His DPhil, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, focused on the law of property and was supervised by Professor Ben McFarlane. Before taking up his current role, Luke was a Supernumerary Teaching Fellow in Law at St John's College, Oxford. 

Luke’s research interests are mainly in private law, with a particular focus on property rights. Much of his work is doctrinal, but he also has an interest in theoretical and philosophical questions relating to property law and private law more generally. In recent years, Luke’s work has focused primarily on: (1) the nature of (so-called) “possessory title” in the common law; (2) the nature and grounds of ownership in  the law; (3) the limits of property rights and conflicts between property rights and the rights, interests, and needs of others; and (4) the legal remedies that may be awarded where property rights are infringed. He is interested in the interaction between property law and other areas of law, incuding human rights law, the law of torts, and unjust enrichment. 

Luke's first monograph, Possession, Relative Title, and Ownership in English Law, was published by Oxford University Press in February 2021. 

Dr Reece Lewis is a Lecturer in Law at Cardiff University. His research interests include all aspects of public international law though, at present, he is particularly focused on the international law of the sea and on jurisprudential questions concerning the international legal order. He has published in specialist and generalist journals and has recently published a book entitled Legal Fictions in International Law with Edward Elgar. Reece also served as the Specialist Adviser to the UK House of Lords International Relations and Defence Select Committee throughout its inquiry (2021-22) into whether the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea remains fit for purpose in the 21st Century.

Dr. Jason Haynes is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Deputy Dean (Graduate Studies & Research), University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. He previously served as Senior Legal Officer at the British High Commission, Bridgetown, Barbados, where he acted in the capacity of an international lawyer for the UK Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) International Division. He is an Academic Fellow at the Honourable Society of Middle Temple, UK; an O’Brien Fellow in Residence at McGill University, Canada; and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He is an attorney-at-law admitted to practise in St Vincent and the Grenadines and Barbados, and is the author of the monograph, Caribbean Anti-Trafficking Law and Practice (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2019), and co-author of Commonwealth Caribbean Sports Law (Routledge, 2018). He publishes in the areas of anti-trafficking law, sports law and international investment law.   

Jason was appointed as a Trafficking in Persons (TIP) International Legal Consultant for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) in Barbados in 2021, and is the National Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery at the International Academy of Comparative Law. He drafted the Disability Acts for St Vincent and the Grenadines and Barbados, and the Model Smuggling Act for the Caribbean for the IOM.

He earned a PhD in Law from Durham Law School (on a Commonwealth Scholarship); an LLM with Distinction from the University of Nottingham (on a Chevening Scholarship), and an LLB with First Class Honours from the University of the West Indies (on an Island/National Scholarship). His work on Human Trafficking won the 2021 UNESCO/Juan Bosch Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Social Science Research in Latin America and the Caribbean.