Editorial Changes at EJIL:Talk!

It is a pleasure to announce additions to the team of editors at EJIL:Talk! We are delighted to announce three new Contributing Editors to the blog. They are:

Monica Hakimi who is Professor of Law at the University of Michigan School of Law where she was until recently, Associate Dean for Academic Programming. She previously served as an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State where, in addition to other tasks, she served as counsel before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal and worked on cases before the International Court of Justice and U.S. federal courts and agencies.

Lorna McGregor, who is Professor at the University of Essex Law School where she is also Director of the Human Rights Centre at Essex University. Lorna is Co-Chair of the European Society of International Law’s Interest Group on Human Rights and a Commissioner of the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission. She is currently leading a number of funded research projects including acting as Co-Director of an ESRC Large Grant on Technology, Big Data and Human Rights; Principal Investigator of a Nuffield-funded project on the role of National Human Rights Institutions in Complaints-Handling; and a Co-Investigator on a British Academy Newton Fund grant on The Effects of International Human Rights Law on Public International Law and its Sub-Branches.

Andreas Zimmermann is Professor of International and European Law at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and Director of the Potsdam Centre of Human Rights. He has advised the German government in various capacities including being a member of the Advisory Board of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs on United Nations issues as well as of the Advisory Board on International Law. He has been counsel in several cases before the International Court of Justice and inter-State arbitration. Has also been judge ad hoc at the European Court of Human Rights.

They have written in the European Journal of International Law and are previous contributors to the  blog. We look forward to their contributions over the coming months and years. Remaining on the team of contributing editors are Anne Peters and Christian Tams.

Rotating off the team of contributing editors are Matthew Happold and Antonios Tzanakopoulos. We owe a debt of gratitude to Matthew and Antonios for their contributions to the blog over the past few years. We hope they will continue to write for the blog as guest contributors.

We are also very grateful indeed to Iain Scobbie whose tenure as a co-editor of the blog ended earlier this year. Also leaving us earlier this year was Geraldo Vidigal who gave really valuable service as Associate Editor before moving on to take up a position in the Legal Service of the World Trade Organization.

Geraldo was replaced as Associate Editor by Dr Helen McDermott who is a research fellow at the Individualisation of War project at the European University Institute, an Associate of the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations and a Visiting Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.

We welcome the new members of the team!