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In the most recent round of appointments, Dr Tomaso Ferrando was appointed to a two-year Assistant Professorship and joined the Law School in January 2016, Markus Wagner was appointed as Associate Professor and will be joining us in June 2016; and Dr Sharifah Sekalala will be taking up an Assistant Professorship in September 2016.

Tomaso Ferrando obtained his PhD in Law from Sciences Po Law School in 2015 and has been an Italian barrister since 2011. In the last four years he has been Resident Fellow at the Institute for Global Law and Policy (Harvard Law School), the Universidade de São Paulo (Commerce Law Department) and the University of Cape Town (Public Law Department). He holds a Master of Science in Comparative Law, Economics and Finance from the International University College of Turin, and has been a visiting researcher at both the law and anthropology departments of UC Berkeley. In 2010 he worked as a pro bono lawyer for Racimos de Ungurahui, a Peruvian NGO specialized in providing legal support to local communities affected by development projects and resources extraction. His current research focuses on the legal construction and deconstruction of global value chains, the financialization of worldwide production, and the various forms of exploitation that take place throughout the food regime.

Dr Sharifah Sekalala is currently a post-doctoral research fellow in the Law School. She holds a D.Phil. in Law (ÌÇÐÄTV, 2012), an LLM in Public International Law (Distinction in research, Nottingham 2006), and an LLB (Honours) from Makerere University, Uganda (2004). She has also worked in a number of other organisations including the International Bar Association in London and has practised as an advocate in Uganda. She has taught at number of modules at ÌÇÐÄTV, including Tort Law and Critical Issues in Law and Management. Her research focuses on the intersection of global health law with international law. Her forthcoming monograph with Cambridge University Press, Soft Law and Global Health Problems: Lessons from responses to HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, is due to be published in 2016.

Markus Wagner is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Law at the University of Miami. He teaches and writes in the areas of international law, constitutional law and comparative law. He holds degrees from the Universities of Giessen and Stanford, and has worked at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and the Brussels office of WilmerHale. He has also served as legal counsel for the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations in New York and clerked for then-President of the Supreme Court of Israel Aharon Barak. He was appointed as Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Teaching and Research of WTO Disputes at the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing and has held visiting professor positions at the University of New South Wales, the Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogota, the Universidad Los Andes in Bogota, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and Public International Law in Heidelberg, the Faculty of Law at the University of Leipzig and the Faculty of Law the University of Hamburg.