SWAIL emerged gradually after 2022 when a group of people began debating international law's role in current global affairs. It is an open-ended project geared toward self-reflection and introspection. Please drop us a line (secondworlding@gmail.com) if you want to get in touch.
Kostia is Assistant Professor of International Law at the University of Groningen. He specialises in analytical jurisprudence and philosophy of international law, as well as in their interplay.
Polina Kulish
Polina is a PhD candidate and a research associate at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. Her fields of research encompass the law of international organisations, law of international security, and media law. In her current research project, she is exploring the nature of member states’ compliance in international organisations.
Patryk is an assistant professor of international law and international relations at Central European University. His work lies at the intersection of international law, peace and security studies, and global history.
Tomasz Lachowski
Tomasz works at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Łódź. He researches in Conflict Processes, Human Rights, Transitional Justice and International Law. Interrelated projects are 'Transitional Justice in post-Maidan Ukraine' and 'Application of Transitional Justice in Ongoing Conflicts and Post-war Reconstruction. An International Law Perspective'.
LIU Nengye
LIU Nengye teaches and conducts research at the nexus of the law of the sea and international environmental law. He has edited three books, published 50+ refereed journal articles and book chapters; and delivered 100+ presentations about his research findings across five continents. He sits on the editorial board of Marine Policy, Ocean Development and International Law and Polar Record.
Eric Loefflad
Eric is an interdisciplinary scholar specialising in the history and theory of public international law, broadly understood. He received his PhD from Kent Law School in 2019 and also holds a BA in Political Science from the Pennsylvania State University, a JD from the Gonzaga University School of Law, and an LLM from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Momchil Milanov
Harshad Pathak
Harshad is an international dispute settlement practitioner and researcher with a focus on international economic law, investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), and commercial arbitration. He is a Consultant with Mayer Brown Paris, acting as counsel in ISDS proceedings, and a Visiting Faculty at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore for international investment law and arbitration.
Gor Samvel
Gor is an MSCA postdoctoral researcher at the UiT-Arctic University of Norway, Faculty of Law. He holds a PhD in International Law and Political Science from the Geneva Graduate Institute, as well as master’s degrees in law from Ghent University and Yerevan State University.
Svitlana Starosvit
Marek is inclined to see international law as an inescapable part of the richness and fluidity of the world we live in. Alongside teaching and research at the University of Łódź in Poland, he has also taught in Georgia, Kenya, and Spain, and he enjoys connecting international law debates across regions and traditions.
Kostia Gorobets, Selbi Durdiyeva - to be updated