Institute of Global Law

New Lectureships

Laws and European Social and Political Studies
Dr Ingrid Boccardi has been appointed to the joint post in Laws and European Social and Political Studies. Dr Boccardi took her first degree in Rome in political science, then followed this with a Masters at the College of Europe in Bruges and a doctorate at University College London in EU Asylum Law under the supervision of Professor David O'Keeffe. She has taught part-time at UCL for some years, and it will be a great pleasure to welcome her to the full-time staff. Half of her teaching will be in EU Law for the ESPS programme, and the other half will be in Laws in Italian Law and EU Law subjects. She is currently working on a textbook on EU Asylum Law.

French Law
Dr Myriam Hunter-Henin has been appointed to the new Lectureship in French Law. Dr Hunter-Henin is a graduate of the KCL LLB/Maitrise programme. She then took her DEA and a doctorate at the University of Paris I, specialising in Private International Law. She has been teaching part-time in Paris and is looking forward to returning to England to take up her first full-time lectureship at UCL. She will do her main teaching on the French Law elements of the European Legal Studies course and also contribute to other courses in comparative law and the conflict of laws. She has published her doctoral thesis in France and is currently working on an English version.