Recent fellows

In 2008 the Faculty of Law included Rosalind Franklin Fellowships into the faculty's personnel policy. In 2009 the first Rosalind Franklin Fellow was appointed. 

Dr Jeanne Pia Mifsud Bonnici was born in Malta where she received her first law degrees and practiced law. She read for a PhD in Groningen researching the role of self-regulation in cyberspace. Following a period of teaching and research in the United Kingdom and at the University of Amsterdam, she was appointed as a Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Department of Economic and European Law. Her research focuses on the intersection of European Technology Law and fundamental human rights, in particular, the rights to privacy and security. She is currently involved in two European Union funded FP7 projects – CONSENT researching consumer privacy issues in online user-generated content services; and SMART researching the privacy and data protection implications of smart surveillance technologies.

More info: http://www.rug.nl/staff/g.p.mifsud.bonnici/index

Dr Caroline Fournet was born in Lyon (France) where she received her undergraduate Law degree (Université Jean Moulin – Lyon III). After two Master degrees in Sweden (LLM, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund) and France (DEA, Institut des Hautes Etudes Européennes Strasbourg), she read fora PhD in Leicester (United Kingdom) researching on the normative evolution of international crimes. Following a lectureship and senior lectureship at Exeter School of Law (United Kingdom), she was appointed as a Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Groningen.

Her research focuses on comparative and international criminal law. Her main publications include three monographs:International Crimes – Theories, Practice and Evolution, With an Introduction by Professor Malcolm N. Shaw QC (Cameron May, 2006); The Crime of Destruction and the Law of Genocide: Their Impact on Collective Memory, (Ashgate, 2007) and Genocide and Crimes against Humanity: Confusions and Amalgams in French Practice (Hart Publishing, forthcoming), which was awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant for its completion.

Her current research include an ERC funded interdisciplinary project on mass violence and genocide as well as several comparative works on international criminal law and justice.

More info: http://www.rug.nl/staff/c.i.fournet/index

Dr Olha Cherednychenko studied law in Kiev and Utrecht (1995-2002). After receiving a Master of Laws in International and European Law (magna cum laude) from Utrecht University, she joined the Molengraaff Institute for Private Law at this university as a Lecturer/Ph D Researcher (2002-2006). She obtained her doctor’s degree in 2007, with a thesis entitled ‘Fundamental Rights, Contract Law and the Protection of the Weaker Party: A Comparative Analysis of the Constitutionalisation of Contract Law, with Emphasis on Risky Financial Transactions’. From September 2006 to January 2012 Olha Cherednychenko worked as a Senior Lecturer in Private Law at the Department of Private Law of the VU University of Amsterdam where she received a three-year research grant for talented researchers. She was also a board member of the VU Amsterdam Centre for Law and Governance (VU GLC). As a visiting scholar, she did research at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London (IALS), the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the European University Institute in Florence (EUI). On 1 February 2012 Olha Cherednychenko was appointed as an Associate Professor/Reader in European Private Law and Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen, where she currently works at the Department of Private Law and Notary Law. Her research focuses on the interaction between European private law, European public law and national legal orders.

More info: http://www.rug.nl/staff/o.o.cherednychenko/index .