Our members

Denis started his career in the Refugee-Law-Clinic Bochum, as a legal consultant. He is the author of several articles published by the Human Rights League of France. Denis has been a delegate for ELSA international NGO in the committee on enforced disappearances. He graduated from the Strasbourg University as a Master of fundamental Rights. Since then he is pursuing his second Master degree in Human Rights and international humanitarian law at the Pantheon-Assas university in Paris. 

Dorota Pudzianowska graduated in law and sociology. Currently she is Associate Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw. She specializes in public law with special interest in human rights, law on nationality and statelessness and anti-discrimination law. In years 2006-2020 she worked at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Poland where she led strategic litigation of discrimination cases. Currently she works as an attorney (Warsaw Bar). She is a leading author in Poland on statelessness.

Eric Fripp is a barrister practicing in asylum, immigration, and nationality work, and more widely in public law and human rights cases. He is cited as a Leading Junior in Chambers UK and the UK Legal 500 and listed in the Best Lawyers in the UK. A longstanding focus of his work concerns the interrelation of statelessness with international, European, and domestic laws concerning refugee status.  Important past cases include ST (Ethnic Eritrean- nationality- return) Ethiopia CG [2011] UKUT 00252 (IAC) (deprivation of nationality by Ethiopia from 1998), MA (Ethiopia) [2009] EWCA Civ 289; [2010] INLR 1 (question not how claimant would be treated if returned to country of former nationality, but whether she faced exclusion which prevented her return), and EB (Ethiopia) [2007] EWCA Civ 809; [2009] QB 1, (1951 Refugee Convention covers adverse measures including, where a Convention reason arises, arbitrary deprivation of nationality and attached rights).

He is statelessness contact person for the Fahamu Refugee Resource Centre. He is the Editor (with Rowena Moffatt and Ellis Wilford) of The Law and Practice of Expulsion and Exclusion from the United Kingdom (Hart, 2014), and sole author of Nationality and Statelessness in the International Law of Refugee Status (Hart, 2016).

Erika Kalantzi past and current roles include Attorney-at-Law at the High Court of Greece 1990-1996: legal counselor at the Greek Council for Refugees 1998-3/2001: participation – representing UNHCR’s office in Athens - to second instance committee for the regularization of illegal migrants in Greece. 2000-2008: participation to second instance committees for the examination of submissions filed by rejected asylum seekers. 1998 till 2015: editing of the Yearbook of Refugee and Aliens Law (issued by the Publisher Ant. N. Sakkoulas in Greece).

Eva Ersbøll is a lawyer, SENIOR RESEARCHER, EMERITA AT THE DANISH INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. Formerly she worked as a legal assistant to the Danish Parliamentary Ombudsman and an analyst to the Commissioner of the Council of the Baltic Sea States on Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Including the Rights of Persons belonging to Minorities. Her PhD is on Danish Nationality in an International and Historical Perspective. She has published on a number of other topics, including Union citizenship, nationality law in Europe, equality and non-discrimination. She has been working with statelessness for many years, in a national and Nordic context, and as a consultant for UNHCR.

Frances Meyler is a Law Lecturer and Co-Director of Liverpool Law Clinic at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, specialising in refugee, immigration and human rights law. She is also a part-time judge of the First-tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber).  She practised at the Bar (called 1999, Middle Temple) and spent several years working at a senior level at Refugee & Migrant Justice (also known as 'Refugee Legal Centre'). She ran 'not in accordance with the law' grounds in relation to unremovable Stateless cases, including a case that reached the Supreme Court: MS (Palestinian Territories) v SSHD [2010] UKSC 25. She also developed policy and training for the RLC in relation to the Early Legal Advice Pilot in Solihull. Frances is currently an examiner on the Law Society's Immigration and Asylum Law Accreditation Scheme.

Guy S. Goodwin Gill is a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and Professor of International Refugee Law. He is also a Barrister and a member of Blackstone Chambers, practising in public international law, human rights, and refugee and asylum law. He is the Founding Editor of the International Journal of Refugee Law, and his recent publications include  the introductory notes to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness in the ‘Historic Archives’ section of the UN Audio-Visual Library of International Law : http://www.un.org/law/avl/; The Limits of Transnational Law, with Hélène Lambert, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010; Brownlie’s Documents on Human Rights, 6th edition with the late Sir Ian Brownlie, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010; and The Refugee in International Law, 3rd edition with Jane McAdam, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Haqqi Bahram is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) of Linköping University, Sweden. His research focuses on the legacy of statelessness and identity formation in post-statelessness and forced displacement contexts. His work engages experiences of stateless Syrian Kurds in Europe to study stateless standpoints and activism, social and political inclusion and transitional justice. Haqqi teaches on citizenship, exclusion and conflict and he has previously worked as a senior officer on humanitarian aid and development programmes implemented in Syria.

Helena-Ulrike Marambio is a human rights advocate, holding a Magister in political science (University of Cologne, Germany) and a LLM in human rights (University of York, United Kingdom). She is researching issues related to the protection of stateless persons in Europe, and especially in Germany. She previously hold different positions in Amnesty International in Chile and the UK. She also worked with asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in Chile.

Hilkka was senior solicitor with the Immigrant Council of Ireland – Independent Law Centre from 2002 to 2004 and again from 2006 to March 2015. She continues to work with the Immigrant Council in a consultancy role, focussing on EU free movement and statelessness. Hilkka is a graduate of law of the University of Hamburg and is qualified to practice law in Ireland and Germany. She teaches immigration and citizenship law at the Law Society of Ireland and is a member of the Law Society’s Human Rights Committee. Hilkka was appointed a Member of the Irish Refugee Appeals Tribunal in November 2013; she also is an alternate member of the Editorial Team of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges (Europe) which is charged with the development of core judicial training materials on asylum in cooperation with the EASO.