IERU MEMBERS

 

 

 

 

Marc COGEN

°1955 – Sint-Niklaas, Belgium

 

Tel. +32 9 264 69 04
Marc.Cogen@UGent.be
For a list of his publications, click here.

 

Marc graduated  in law studies at the Ghent University in 1978. He became a barrister and joined the staff of the Law School of the University of Gent after having obtained his doctoral degree in 1986 on a comparative legal analysis of the African, Asian and Inter-American Development Banks. He served for four years as a professor of international law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1988-1991) and became professor of international law at the University of Gent in 1991. He also taught European law and institutions at Vesalius College of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel from 1995 to 2001. His publications include international and European financial law, general international law and international security.

 

 

Peggy DE SMET

°1971 –  Gent, Belgium

 

Tel. +32 9 264 84 26

Peggy.DeSmet@UGent.be

 

Secretary of the department.
 

 

 

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

 

 

Sven BISCOP

°1976 – Willebroek, Belgium

 

S.Biscop@irri-kiib.be

 

Dr. Sven Biscop won the prize for best thesis in political sciences at Ghent University for his work on the development of a European security and defence policy (1998). Having been awarded the Paul-Henri Spaak PhD scholarship of the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders, he joined the IERU and wrote a doctoral thesis on EU security policy and the Mediterranean, of which Prof. Dr. Marc Cogen was promotor. He obtained the doctorate in political sciences from Ghent University on 24 May 2002. In November of that year he joined the Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels, the think tank of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the first research fellow in the newly created Security & Global Governance Department.
   

 

 

Eric DEBRABANDERE

°1978 – Ukkel (Brussels), Belgium

 

Eric worked at the IERU from 2002 until 2007. Eric graduated in law studies at the Ghent University in 2001. He studied at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva and graduated in 2002 with a Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies en Droit International Public (LL.M.) after completion of a research on the practice of International Territorial Administration by the United Nations – a study of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). He conducted a PhD research on the role of the United Nations and international territorial administration. His research field also includes general Public International Law, the Laws of Armed Conflict and the Law of International Organisations. From 2005 to 2007, Eric taught courses on International Institutions and International Trade Law at the Karel de Grote University College in Antwerp. He also worked as an attorney at the Brussels Bar from 2002 until June 2006.

In September 2007, Eric joined the University of Leiden as a lecturer in Public International Law.

 

 

Sharon PARDO

°1971 – Haifa, Israel

 

Tel. + 972 58 900 147
pardosharon@yahoo.co.uk

LL.B. Sheffield and LL.M. Sheffield.
Advocate and member of the Israeli Bar since 1998 and a qualified Mediator of the Israeli Centre for Negotiations. Sharon graduated in 1997 from the University of Sheffield – the Institute of International, Commercial and European Law -  after completion of a research study which evaluated the Palestinians’ journey for statehood in the light of contemporary public international law and practice. As a member of IERU Sharon did research on  the Conference/Organisation on Security and Co-operation in Europe in (C/OSCE) as a system-transforming mechanism for the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP). He obtained his PhD in political science in July 2003.  

Lecturer of EU-Law and EU-Politics and Government in several Universities and Colleges.

 

Lior ZEMER   

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lior.zemer@idc.ac.il

LL.B (Sheffield); M.ST (Oxford); LL.M (Hebrew University), PhD (York,Toronto)

Lior Zemer is a law lecturer at the Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Centre, Herzliya and a Visiting Assistant Professor in Boston University School of Law. He previously taught at the faculties of law in Leicester and Birmingham, UK, and Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada. He was awarded his Ph.D at Osgoode Hall Law School in 2005. His research was supervised by Professor Leslie Green. During 2001 he served as the assistant lawyer to Judge J.D. Cooke at the European Court of First Instance and Judge S. von Bahr at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.Lior's Research Interests include: International and European intellectual property law and policy; international trade; European law; public international law; and jurisprudence. 

 

 

Fabian COHEN   

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Fabian.Cohen@UGent.be

Fabian Cohen holds a Master degree in Political Science with a specialization in International Relations from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of Hull (UK). His thesis focused on a comparative analysis in the positioning of the United Sates and the European Union in the management of the crisis in the Middle East. Fabian joined IERU in 2009 after having previously worked at the European Institute for Research on the Middle East (Brussels) as well as at the European Parliament. He has also been trained in strategic communication in a major think tank in Washington DC.