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Thomas Horsley

Thomas Horsley

FELLOW
University of Liverpool

Thomas Horsley is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. He completed his PhD thesis at the University of Edinburgh (2009-2011), funded by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council. He was appointed Associated Head of Department in 2019.

 

Thomas specialises in EU and UK constitutional law with a particular focus on theorising the relationships between constitutions and institutions. He has published widely in leading international journals and edited collections. His first monograph, The Court of Justice of the European Union as an Institutional Actor: Judicial Lawmaking and its Limits, appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2018.  It interrogates the function of the EU Treaty framework as a source of normative restraint on the Court of Justice and, more specifically, its interpretative choices as an institutional actor within the Union legal order.

 

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Thomas engages proactively with key stakeholders. In 2017, he was invited by the European People’s Party to speak at the European Parliament on the challenges of managing Brexit. He has previously given evidence to the House of Lords EU Select Committee (2015). His research also been cited in several UK Government reports. In 2014, he was appointed UK rapporteur at the XXVI FIDE Congress hosted by the University of Copenhagen. Thomas also regularly offers expert reaction to national and international media (incl. BBC News and CTV News) on major legal developments in EU and UK constitutional law. 

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Gene Robinson

Department of Entomology
University of Illinois

 

Gene Robinson, the 2018 Wolf Prize laureate. Prof. Gene Robinson from the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois is the director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) and director of the Bee Research Facility.

Dr. Ruth Schor

Ruth Schor

FELLOW
Buber Fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ruth Schor is currently a research fellow at the Martin Buber Society of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an associate researcher at the University of Oslo. Her research interests include theatre and performance, cultural history, modern drama and contemporary performance.

Jan Kühne

Jan Kühne

FELLOW
Buber Fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Jan Kühne is currently associate researcher at the Rosenzweig Minerva Center and post-doc fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows of the Hebrew University.

Avigail Sachs

Avigail Sachs

FELLOW
University of Tennessee

Avigail Sachs is Associate Professor of Architecture and Landscape History and Theory in the College of Architecture and Design at the University of Tennessee. She was recently awarded the prestigious 2017 Mellon Author Award from the Society of Architectural Historians.