Zuzanna Godzimirska is Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Institutions at iCourts, Centre of Excellence for International Courts at the Faculty of Law at Copenhagen University. In her research, which is interdisciplinary, empirical and often comparative in nature, she combines insights and methods from international law, international relations and linguistics to study how international courts are legitimated and gain trust among myriad constituents and how they contribute to conceptual evolution and legal change in international law. Her work has appeared in the European Journal of International Law, Nordic Journal of Human Rights, New York University Journal of International Law & Politics, amongst others.
Ezgi Yildiz is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), and a research affiliate at the Global Governance Center of the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her research is interdisciplinary, at the intersection of International Relations and International Law. Her areas of specialization include global governance, international courts and organizations, human rights, and ocean governance.
Her first monograph, Between Forbearance and Audacity: The European Court of Human Rights and the Norm Against Torture, will be published by Cambridge University Press in May 2023, and her co-edited volume with Nico Krisch, The Many Paths of Change in International Law, is to be published by Oxford University Press. Her other work has appeared in the European Journal of International Law, the German Law Journal, and the Journal of Human Rights Practice, among others. Between 2018 and 2023, she worked as a senior researcher for the Paths of International Law: Stability and Change in the International Legal Order (PATHS) project, financed by the European Research Council.
In 2020-2021, she led the Testing the Focal Point Theory of International Adjudication: An Empirical Analysis of the ICJ’s Impact on Maritime Delimitation project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Prior to this, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School (2017-2019) and a visiting fellow at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University (2017).
Currently, she is serving as a member of the Expert Group for the Implementation of the EU’s Anti-Torture Regulation (Regulation 2019/125) for the European Commission’s Foreign Policy Instruments.
Tommaso Soave is an assistant professor at the Department of Legal Studies of Central European University. His research focuses on international economic law, international dispute settlement, legal theory, and sociological approaches to global governance. Tommaso's first book, The Everyday Makers of International Law (CUP 2022), explores the socio-professional dynamics of the international legal community and assesses their impact on the rulings of international courts and tribunals. He has also published numerous papers in his areas of research. Tommaso previously worked as a dispute settlement lawyer at the World Trade Organization and as an associate attorney at Sidley Austin LLP. He regularly serves as a consultant for intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations on matters of trade and investment law. In addition to his position at CEU, in 2022-2023 he will hold a visiting professor appointment at the University of Graz. Tommaso has earned degrees from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Harvard Law School, Sciences Po Paris, and the University of Turin, and has been called to the Bar of New York.