Editors
Laurens Ankersmit
Dr. Laurens Ankersmit is assistant professor in EU law at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He studied law and international relations at the University of Groningen and at the College of Europe. He holds a Ph.D. in EU law from VU University, Amsterdam, writing his dissertation on fair and sustainable trade within the EU internal market. In the past he worked at ClientEarth, an environmental law organisation.

Maria Haag
Dr. Maria Haag is a Lecturer in European Union Law at the Department of Public Law and Governance at Tilburg University. She holds an LL.B. from Durham University, and an LL.M. and Ph.D. from the European University Institute (EUI). She has previously been a Grotius Research Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School. Her research interests include EU constitutional law, internal market, Union citizenship, and migration law.

Jasmin Hiry
Jasmin Hiry is a PhD researcher at the University of Luxembourg in European Law, specializing in European constitutional law. After completing her Bachelor in European Law at Maastricht University she obtained her LL.M. in International Laws from the same University. During her studies she spent three semesters abroad at Birmingham City University (UK) as well as the Europa-Institut Saarbrücken (Germany). She worked as a lecturer in the Department of Public Law at Maastricht University prior to pursuing her PhD. Her research focuses on the rights of initiative in the European Union.

Katie Nolan
Katie Nolan is a PhD researcher at the London School of Economics and a Teaching Fellow at University College Dublin. Her research focuses on EU data protection law and fundamental rights in EU law. She holds a Bachelor of Business and Law from University College Dublin, a B.C.L. from the University of Oxford and an LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a qualified solicitor in the Republic of Ireland.

Marine Corhay
Marine Corhay is a PhD Candidate (FRESH grantee – F.R.S./FNRS) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Liège (ULiège, Belgium). Prior to starting her PhD, she was a teaching assistant at the Institute of criminal law and criminal procedure. She holds a Master’s degree in Criminal Law from Uliège and an LL.M. in Public International Law from the University of Nottingham (UK). Her research interests include Belgian and European criminal law, human rights law, public international law and cybercrime.

Jonas Bornemann
Jonas Bornemann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Lausanne and the HES-SO Valais-Wallis. His research predominantly focuses on EU constitutional and migration law. Jonas worked as a doctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz and as a legal trainee at the Odysseus Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe.
Associate Editors

Vanessa Franssen
Vanessa Franssen is professor at the University of Liège (Belgium), affiliated senior researcher at the Institute of Criminal Law of the KU Leuven (Belgium) and guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg. Furthermore, she is a member of the Brussels bar. Prof. Franssen studied Law and Romance Languages at the KU Leuven and Panthéon-Sorbonne University of Paris 1. She was a Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School. Her research mainly focuses on EU criminal law, cybercrime, comparative criminal procedure, data protection law, economic and financial criminal law, the interplay between criminal and administrative law in Europe, as well as EU competition law.

Oliver Garner
Dr. Oliver Garner is a Brexit Research Fellow at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He holds a B.A. in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford, an LL.M. in Comparative, European and International Laws, and a Doctorate in Laws from the European University Institute (EUI). His Ph.D. thesis analyses Member State withdrawal and opt-outs from the European Union.

Orla Lynskey
Orla Lynskey is a lecturer in law at the London School of Economics where she teaches on Digital Rights, Cyberlaw, IT law and Competition law courses. She studied law at Trinity College Dublin (LLB) and the College of Europe (LLM) before completing a PhD in European data protection law at the University of Cambridge. Previously, she worked as an academic assistant at the College of Europe, as a contractual agent at the European Commission and at an international law firm.

Benedikt Pirker
Dr. Benedikt Pirker studied EU and international law at the University of Innsbruck, the College of Europe and the Graduate Institute Geneva. He is Maitre d'enseignement et de recherche at the Institute for European Law of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).
Editorial assistants
Max van Iersel
Max van Iersel is a PhD researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT) at Tilburg University in The Netherlands. His research focuses on innovation and competition law in the context of ‘killer acquisitions’ on dynamic markets.
Jesse Peters
Jesse Peters (LLM) works as a junior lecturer in International and European Law at the University of Amsterdam.
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