Members

Dr. Maria Anna Corvaglia joined the Durham Law School in January 2015 as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the context of the ERC-funded research project “Dividing Political Power among People(s)”. She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Zurich. She conducted her doctoral studies in the framework of the Swiss NCCR National Centre of Competence in Research on Trade Regulation, under the supervision of Prof. Christine Kaufmann.

Barbara Guastaferro joined Durham Law School in 2014 as a Research Fellow within the framework of the “Neo-Federalism” Project, funded by the European Research Council. In the same Law School, she teaches tutorials in European Union Constitutional Law. She currently serves as the constitutional expert for Italy in an ERC research project on “The Role and Future of National Constitutions in European and Global Governance” run by the Kent Law School and in a research project on “Member States’ Constitutions and EU Integration” run by the University of Salzburg.

Eszter was awarded a First Class Honours LLB in Business Law from London Metropolitan University, where she developed a keen interest in European Union Constitutional and Company Law. She continued to pursue her interest in European Union Company Law and examined various aspects of the proposed European Private Company while completing her LLM in European Trade and Commercial Law with Distinction from Durham University.

Konrad Lachmayer joined Durham Law School in 2014 as a Research Fellow within the framework of the “Neo-Federalism” Project, funded by the European Research Council. Konrad studied law at University of Vienna and visited Center for European Legal Studies at the University of Cambrige (United Kingdom), the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Germany) and the Central European University (Hungary). He holds a research chair at the Institute of Legal Studies, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2013 and co-organises the Budapest Research Group on Constitutional Theory.

Dr. Lucía Payero López obtained her PhD in Law in 2014 (University of Oviedo, Spain). In her thesis she made a legal and political analysis of the right of national self-determination and the Spanish Constitution of 1978. Dr. Payero is currently a visiting researcher at Durham Law School. Her research interests lie in the fields of Legal Philosophy, Political Theory and Constitutional Theory. She has published articles and presented papers at international conferences on issues relating to nationalism, self-determination of peoples, devolution in Spain and the United Kingdom, federal theory, constitutionalism, transitional justice in Spain and Latin America, film and the Law, citizenship and multiculturalism.

Tom Sparks is a PhD student in international law at Durham University and a part time research assistant to Professor Schütze under the auspices of the Neo-Federalism project. He graduated from the University of Durham with a First class Law degree in 2013, where he developed a keen interest in international law and, in particular, questions relating to Statehood and self-determination. As part of his degree he completed a dissertation entitled ‘Is there, and should there be, a right to secessionary self-determination in international law?’ He has returned to Durham in order to undertake a PhD supported by a European Research Council studentship (2013-2016).

Ms. Ruth Houghton joined the project as a Research Assistant in September 2016. She joined Durham Law School as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and PhD Candidate in 2013.