Training Courses
Trainers
Ms. Katharina Braun
Free University of Berlin
Ms. Katharina Braun is a PhD candidate at Freie Universität Berlin and a legal trainee at the Higher Regional Court of Berlin. She holds a German law degree (1st state exam) and an LL.M. in Human Rights & Social Justice from the University of Connecticut School of Law. Her areas of interest include international criminal law, animal rights law, and legal theory. She has participated in the Day of Crisis Competition (Best Negotiations Team, 2018) and Hours of Crisis Competition (Best Written Advice Team, Winter 2019) and acted as arbitrator and judge in the VIS Moot Court and the ICC Moot Court Competition.
Dr. Laura Ausserladscheider Jonas
Swiss Federal Office of Justice
Dr. Laura Ausserladscheider Jonas is an award-winning international criminal law, humanitarian law, public international law and human rights law expert with extensive experience in Africa, Asia and Europe. She currently works as a legal expert for the Swiss Federal Office of Justice. She holds a Magister Juris (MJur or LLM) from Oxford University and was awarded the title of Doctor of Laws by the University of Pretoria in 2021.
Dr. Eduardo Kapapelo
Centre for Human Rights | University of Pretoria
Dr. Eduardo Kapapelo is a Project Manager and Researcher at the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. With a focus on a variety of critical topics, Dr. Kapapelo is currently working on issues relating to climate justice and human rights. In his work, Dr. Kapapelo extends the idea of human rights beyond anthropocentric notions of justice while encouraging and recognizing the historical entanglements of extractivism, race, property and environmental destruction and how they manifest themselves in changing climates and planetary conditions today.
Mr. Altamush Saeed
Charity Doings Foundation | Environmental and Animal Rights Consultants LLP Pakistan | World Moot on International Law and Animal Rights | University of Central Punjab
Mr. Altamush Saeed BA-LLB (LUMS) LLM (UMich) LLM (L&C) LLM (L&C) is an Animal Law LLM Graduate from the Center for Animal Law Studies, Lewis and Clark Law School. He is currently pursuing an Environmental Law, Natural Resources, and Energy Law LLM at Lewis and Clark. He holds an LLM from the University of Michigan Law School, a BA-LLB from Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan. Mr. Saeed is a Co-Founder/Director of Charity Doings Foundation and holds various positions in animal welfare and legal organizations.
Ms. Ankita Shanker
World Moot on International Law and Human Rights | University of Basel | University of Helsinki
Ankita Shanker LLB (R'dg) BCL (Oxf) BPTC (BPP) is a social entrepreneur and legal researcher specialised in Public International Law, Animal Law, and Legal Philosophy and Theory. She earned her post-graduate degree in law from Oxford University and qualified as a barrister at the Bar of England and Wales. Ms. Shanker is now working towards her doctorate in Animal Rights Legal Philosophy and Theory at the Universities of Basel and Antwerp. She is the Founder and Director of the first world moot on International Law and animal rights.
Mr. Wing So
Rede Chambers | University of Oxford
Mr. Wing So has a focus on international arbitration and cross-border litigation, covering mainly commercial, construction, maritime, and aviation disputes, and more recently also investment disputes. He also has a particular expertise on costs disputes, and experience with town planning and licensing work. Prior to joining the Hong Kong Bar, Mr. So has been a legal academic conducting research and teaching around the globe since 2010, including at Oxford, New Delhi, Luxembourg, Moscow, Kazan, Beijing, and Hong Kong.
Ms. Michaela Tafani
High Court of South Africa | Animal Law Reform
Ms. Michaela Tafani is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa with several years of legal practice experience. Ms. Tafani holds a Bachelor of Laws degree (2018), and a Master of Laws degree (2022) in environmental law with a specific focus on animal rights, from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Ms. Tafani is the Programme Lead for Animal Law Reform South Africa's Corporate Accountability Programme, which aims to shed light on the realities of the egg industry of South Africa.