Petra Bárd is Researcher at the CEU Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine where she is participating in various European Union financed projects investigating the legal framework of biobanks. She is the Vice-Chairperson of the Hungarian Europe Society, and of Alpbach Hungary. She lectures EU-law and human rights related subjects at CEU and at the Ecole supérieure des sciences commerciales d'Angers (ESSCA). In her writings she primarily addresses European constitutionalism, human rights in the European Union, the rights of persons living with disabilities, and judicial and police cooperation in criminal matters. Petra Bárd is a CEU alumna; she received her LL.M. in international business law in 2001, and was awarded her S.J.D. in the field of comparative constitutional law in 2008.
Gar Yein Ng is a scholar and expert in the field of judicial organization and comparative constitutional law. She obtained her PhD from the faculty of law at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, in March 2007. Her PhD thesis project looks at how organisational quality (i.e. TQM and quality standards) operates alongside constitutional principles of judicial independence and accountability. She has academic backgrounds in both civil and common law system.
Oleksiy Kononov received his Specialist degree in Law from Donetsk National University, Donetsk, Ukraine, in 2003. He also received his LL.M. degree in International Business Law from Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, in 2007. In 2000 - 2006, Oleksiy practiced law in Ukraine as an in-house lawyer, independent legal counsel, and a lawyer in a law firm. His legal practice included corporate law, contracts, foreign trade, and labor law issues.
Oleksiy's areas of interest are foreign investment, foreign trade, contract law, and corporate law.
Bruce Lasky is an American attorney whose travels and life work in human rights awareness have merged in co-founding Sustainable Cambodia and the Sylvia Lasky Memorial School. Currently he is based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, working as a consultant with the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) on exposing universities in the South-East Asian region to, and helping to implement, clinical legal education programs
