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lawyer. As part of his doctoral studies, his research deals primarily with international legal mechanisms of the protection of nature, landscape and biological diversity of animal and plant species. Papachristodoulou, Aphrodite is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway. She holds a PhD in law from University College Dublin, a Master of Laws in Maritime Law from University College London and an LLB from University of Southampton. Dr Papachristodoulou is a licensed lawyer (Cyprus Bar, 2016) and engages in strategic human rights litigation with non-governmental organisations. She further provides advice and interacts with the media on law of the sea and human rights issues in the migration domain. Her principal research interests include international human rights, law of the sea, migration and border technologies. She is also a Research Affiliate at the Refugee Law Initiative and a Committee Member of the International Law Association on the Protection of People at Sea (Irish Branch). Pappa, Foto is a PhD candidate at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, researching digital agriculture and human rights. She holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Groningen (cum laude) and an LLM in Public International Law from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (summa cum laude). She has been admitted to the Athens Bar Association. Pollard, Michael J. is a lecturer in law, University of the West of England. His primary area of interest is related to new technologies, most especially Artificial Intelligence and autonomous robotic systems, will impact upon existing international law norms (use of force, international humanitarian law and international human rights law). Given the inherently interdisciplinary nature of this area of study, the researcher looks to engage with the fields of international relations, strategy, and ethics (amongst others) where possible. Sabjan, Nicolas is an assistant professor at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Law. He teaches legal theory and philosophy of law, and he has been responsible for supervising public international law moot courts. He holds a master’s degree from Leiden University (LL.M, Public International Law) and he completed his PhD. in 2021 at the Comenius University, Faculty of Law. His research focuses on public international law, human rights law, and legal philosophy and theory. Skalski, Szymon is a PhD candidate at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. His work to date includes publications in the fields of civil law, cyber security and artificial intelligence. He has also been collaborating for two years on a project on insurance contracts evolution in the 21st Century. His doctoral thesis is on the characteristics of a cyber attack from a tort liability perspective. He has also been working professionally for two years in cyber security regulatory consulting. Starkowska, Agata is a student at University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and Administration. She was a finalist of the Human rights Olympiad organised by University of Warsaw and published an article titled “The rule of law as an EU value - remarks on the normative and factual state of the rule of law”.

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