Researchers

Erica Harper is a practitioner-academic specializing in international criminal law, human rights law and post-conflict governance.

Eugénie Duss is a Research Fellow at the Geneva Academy

Dr Christophe Golay's expertise relates to economic, social and cultural rights, the right to food and the rights of peasants.

Dr Nataliia Hendel is a Professor of international law at the International Humanitarian University in Odesa, Ukraine.

His research interests include international humanitarian law, international cultural heritage law, human rights law, international responsibility and litigation, and the theory of sovereignty.

Clément Nyaletsossi Voule is Researcher at the Geneva Academy and UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association.

Her areas of expertise include international humanitarian law, international criminal law, international human rights law, and the challenges raised by new technologies – in particular artificial intelligence – in these fields of international law.

Her current research areas include the regulation of trade in torture equipment and equipment capable of being misused for torture, the detention of asylum seekers and migrants, and state diplomacy.

Steven J. Barela research focuses on researching and integrating law, science and philosophy to formulate practical policy proposals.

Dr Fulya Batur conducts research on the rights of peasants, more particularly on the rights to seeds.

Joshua Joseph Niyo is an Associate Research Fellow at the Geneva Academy.

Her expertise and publications relate to intellectual property regimes in agriculture, agrobiodiversity, legal activism and the rights of peasants, in particular the right to seeds.

Her expertise and publications are centred around international and European human rights law, with a particular focus on the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.

Vance Culbert is a senior development and humanitarian professional who has managed operations for non-governmental organizations and UN agencies over the past twenty years.

Dr Alice Jill Edwards is the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. She is also an adjunct faculty member at Oxford University’s Master of Studies in International Human Rights Law.