Lent Term Visiting Fellows & Scholars

Lent Term 2021 Visitors

Dr Mihaela Barnes

Dr Barnes earned her Ph.D. in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in October 2018. Her Thesis focused on the regulation of State-owned entities at the intersection of international economic law and human rights. Dr. Barnes has dual legal qualifications in common law and civil law and has been admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor in Australia (Supreme Court of Western Australia and Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory). She also serves as a Member of the European Society of International Law’s Coordinating Committee of the Interest Group on Business and Human Rights.

Mr Peter Quayle

Peter Quayle established the corporate law function and is Chief Counsel, starting-up the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. He is formerly Associate Director, Senior Counsel at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Legal Advisor of the Office of Foreign Litigation, Civil Division European Office, at the US Department of Justice. He was educated at the Universities of Oxford and London, is a solicitor of England and Wales and a CEDR accredited mediator. He is Visiting Professor of International Organizations Law at Peking University Law School and editor of ‘The Role of International Administrative Law at International Organizations’ (Brill Nijhoff, 2020).

Dr Mark Retter

Mark is a postdoctoral researcher with an independent grant to pursue inter-disciplinary research on the role of human rights in modernity, under processes of secularisation; and on ethical foundations to international legal order. Prior to this he worked as a Research Associate on the Legal Tools for Peace-Making Project at the Lauterpacht Centre; and he completed his doctoral studies, as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, at the University of Cambridge. Dr Retter supervises undergraduate students in Jurisprudence and Public International Law at the University of Cambridge, and assists with the operation and development of the Language of Peace database.

Professor Ulrich Schroeter

Ulrich Schroeter is Professor of private and comparative law at the University of Basel (Switzerland). Prior to taking up his position in Basel in 2017, he was Professor of law at the University of Mannheim (Germany) (2012–2017). Ulrich was educated at the AlbertLudwigs-University Freiburg (Germany) and the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). He received a Doctor iuris from the Freie Universität Berlin before completing his postdoctoral qualification (Habilitation) at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg.