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President
Tilmann Altwicker
University of Zurich – SwitzerlandI hold the Chair of Legal Data Science and Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich as Associate Professor, and also head the Center for Legal Data Science.
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Or Brook
University of Leeds – United KingdomI am an Associate Professor of Competition Law and Policy at the School of Law at the University of Leeds, and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice.
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Urška Šadl
European University Institute – Florence, ItalyI work in the field of European Union law and institutions, especially the internal market, free movement of persons and European citizenship.
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Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska
University of Warsaw – PolandI am an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political Economy at Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw, as well as Director of CEAPS.
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Gareth Davies
Vrije Universiteit – AmsterdamI am a professor of EU law at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, particularly interested in free movement law, EU citizenship, and EU constitutional law.
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Pieter Desmet
Erasmus University Rotterdam – The NetherlandsI am professor of Quantitative Empirical Legal Studies at the Erasmus School of Law in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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Kyra Wigard
Utrecht University – the NetherlandsI am Assistant Professor at the Willem Pompe Institute at Utrecht University. As ESELS board member I publish the bi-annual newsletters and social media updates of the Society.
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Executive Secretary
As Executive Secretary I am concerned with the Society’s daily affairs. Based in the Netherlands (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Social Law), the Secretary is involved in the organization of the Society’s activities, finances, registration of memberships, updating of the website and communications. The Secretariat can be reached via contact@esels.eu.