Associate Experts are also deeply involved in the rule-drafting and review process of the MILAMOS Project. Due to their other professional commitments, and inability to be fully involved as a Core Expert, their expertise and input are called upon on an ad-hoc basis by the Editorial Committee.
Associated Experts involved in the MILAMOS Project include:
- Dr. Shakeel Ahmad (成人VR视频, Canada)
- Ms. Svenja Berrang (German Armed Forces, Germany)
- Dr. Elena Carpanelli (University of Parma, Italy)
- Dr. Elena 膯irkovi膰 (University of聽Helsinki, Finland)
- Prof. Armand de Mestral (成人VR视频, Canada)
- Prof. Fr茅d茅ric M茅gret (成人VR视频, Canada)
- Prof. Marco Sassoli (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
- Dr. Kuan Yang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Shakeel Ahmad
Dr. Shakeel Ahmad holds the position of Erin J.C. Arsenault Research Fellow (2018-2019) at the Institute of Air and Space Law (IASL) at the Faculty of Law at 成人VR视频. Previously, he has served as an Assistant Professor and Focal Person for Centre of International Law at National Defence University (NDU), Islamabad. He聽 received his Ph.D in international law from China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), Beijing, and LLM in International Law from Law School, University of Edinburgh, UK. His Ph.D research is about legality of the US Drone strikes in Pakistan which concerns with the principle of right of self-defence during Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello. His published articles are titled as 鈥淎lleged Fragmentation of International Law: Magnitude of the Problem and Available Solutions鈥�, 鈥淎 Legal Assessment of the US Drone Strikes in Pakistan鈥� and 鈥淒ynamics of Customary International Law: Negotiation, Transformation and Codification.鈥� In addition to his legal background, he also holds MA degree (with Distinction) in International Relations and M. Phil (American Studies) from .
Svenja Berrang
Svenja Berrang joined the legal branch of the German Armed Forces in 2014. She is currently a lecturer in military law at the German Army Officers麓 Academy where she teaches future German and International Army Officers national and international military law, including IHL and international law regarding the use of force. Between 2014 and 2016 Svenja was a Legal Advisor to the German Air Operations Command. She was responsible for all legal aspects regarding air and space operations affecting the Air Operations Command including the German Space Situational Awareness Center. She prepared and participated in various exercises and wargames as the Legal Advisor Air and Space Operations.
Svenja completed her legal education in Germany (First State Examination: Humboldt University Berlin, Second State Examination: Berlin) and holds a LL.M. in International Human Rights Law and Terrorism Law (Distinction) from the Lancaster University. She also participated in the Air and Space Operations and the Law Course of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo.
Elena Carpanelli
Elena Carpanelli is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Public International Law at the Centre for Studies in European and International Affairs of the University of Parma (Italy). She holds a Ph.D. in Public International Law from the University of Milan-Bicocca (2016) and a master鈥檚 degree in Law (cum laude) from the University of Parma (Italy) (2009). In 2011 she completed cum laude the LL.M. (Adv.) in Air and Space Law at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands). Before starting her Ph.D., Mrs. Carpanelli had worked for two years (2011-2013) in the Milan office of the law firm Pirola, Pennuto, Zei & Associati, where she practiced mainly aviation and corporate law. She had previously worked as an intern at the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. Mrs. Carpanelli has published in several fields of international law, including space law, human rights law and environmental law. She is admitted to the Milan bar.
Elena 膯irkovi膰
Dr. 膯irkovi膰 is a researcher at the University of Helsinki (Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, HELSUS). She is a transdisciplinary scholar of international law. Her current research project aims to investigate the role of international regulation and environmental sustainability in the Earth System and outer space. It also analyses regulation of autonomous machine learning that allows for increased commercialisation and industrialisation of these spaces. She is also an Affiliated Researcher with the MIT Media Lab, Space Enabled Research Group, a fellow with Law and Theory lab at the University of Westminster and a member of the Earth System Governance global research alliance. Dr. 膯irkovi膰鈥檚 scientific publication include studies on outer space law, environmental law, law of the commons,"cosmolegality", post-anthropocene, international humanitarian law, self-determination, indigenous peoples鈥� rights, legal and political theory, architecture, and comparative constitutional law.
Marco Sass貌li
A citizen of Switzerland and Italy, Marco Sass貌li is professor of international law at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. From 2001-2003, he has been professor of international law at the Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montreal, Canada, where he remains associate professor. He is also commissioner and alternate member of the Executive Committee of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ).
Marco Sass貌li graduated as doctor of laws at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and was admitted to the Swiss bar. He has worked from 1985-1997 for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), at the headquarters, inter alia as Deputy Head of its Legal Division, and in conflict areas, inter alia as Head of Delegation in Jordan and Syria and as protection coordinator for the former Yugoslavia. During a sabbatical leave in 2011, he joined again the ICRC delegation in Islamabad. He has also served as registrar at the Swiss Supreme Court, and from 2004-2013 as chair of the board of Geneva Call, an NGO engaging non-State armed actors to respect humanitarian rules. From 2009-2016, he was director of the Department of international law and international organization at the University of Geneva.
He has published on international humanitarian law, human rights law, international criminal law, the sources of international law and the responsibility of states and non-state actors.
Kuan Yang
Dr. Kuan Yang is currently a lecturer of international law at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) School of Law. He is also a researcher at the BIT Institute of Space Law and the Space Law Center of China National Space Administration (CNSA). Dr. Yang was an Erin J.C. Arsenault Research Fellow (2017-2018) at the 成人VR视频 Institute of Air and Space Law. He is also a member (2017-2018) of the Global Future Council on Space Technologies of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Dr. Yang holds a Ph.D. in international law from Trinity College Dublin (2016). His research interests lie in international and national space law, public international law, aviation law, and the law of the WTO. He has published in several fields of international law and worked on a number of research projects funded by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND), CNSA, the China Institute of Space Law, the Asia Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO), etc.