Visiting research academics

We have an active academic visitors program at the school that encourages scholars from across the globe to conduct research at our school.  Find out how you can apply.

2025 Visiting Research Fellows

Professor Nicholas Lord

Nicholas Lord is Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at The University of Manchester. He is the Director of the Centre for Digital Trust and Society (CDTS), which is a focal point for research that explores aspects of trust and security in the digital world and delivers the Digital Futures research platform theme Digital Trust and Security. He is also the Director of CrimRxiv, criminology's open research repository. His research contributions centre on three inter-related areas of scholarship: (Inter)national corruption and fraud, and their regulation by criminal justice and state regulatory systems, as well as potential victims and third-party actors (business and individuals); Exploring empirically and conceptually the organisation of serious crimes for gain, in particular 'white-collar crimes', 'organised crimes', illicit financial flows and money laundering, as well as their digital underpinnings; and, the transfer of social scientific modes of analysis and thinking into the operational responses of fraud enforcement authorities. He teaches in the areas of white-collar and corporate crimes, financial and economic crimes, business compliance and regulation, serious and organised crimes, and criminological research. 
 

Professor Yo Sop Choi

Yo Sop Choi is a Professor of Law at the Graduate School of International and Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul. He specialises in Competition Law and European Union Law. His research interests primarily focus on comparative studies of competition law and digital policies related to digital markets, data protection, artificial intelligence and consumer protection. He earned his Bachelor's degree from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, a Master's degree in Economics from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and LLM degrees from Erasmus University Rotterdam and Durham University. Additionally, he obtained his PhD in Law from the University of Glasgow. 
 
Professor Choi has served as a visiting scholar at various universities, including Keio University, the European University Institute, the University of Zürich, IE Law School, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Waseda University, National Taiwan University, Chiang Mai University, Osaka Metropolitan University, and Würzburg University. He is a member of the Academic Society of Competition Law (ASCOLA) and the Korean Competition Law Association (KCLA). His articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals, including the Asia Pacific Law Review, Computer Law & Security Review, IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, European Competition Law Review, European Business Organization Law Review, Journal of African Law, Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, and World Competition: Law and Economics Review.
 

Professor Nathan Chapman

Nathan S. Chapman writes and teaches about constitutional law, especially constitutional rights, and law and religion. Most recently, he is the author, with Michael W. McConnell, of Agreeing to Disagree: How the Establishment Clause Promotes Religious Pluralism and Protects Freedom of Conscience (OUP, 2023). He is a McDonald Distinguished Senior Fellow in Law and Religion (Emory Center for the Study of Law and Religion) and a Nootbaar Fellow in Law and Religion (Pepperdine School of Law). His scholarship on constitutional law has been cited in numerous U.S Supreme Court opinions.

Professor Chapman holds degrees from Duke University and Belmont University. He clerked for Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, practiced at WilmerHale in Washington, D.C., and served as the executive director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. 

He joined the University of Georgia School of Law faculty in 2013. He currently serves as the law school's associate dean for faculty development and holds the Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Law.
 

Dr Hyunsu (Lucy) KimDr Hyunsu (Lucy) Kim

Hyunsu Kim is a Public Prosecutor of South Korea, currently serving at the Suwon District Prosecutor's Office. With a decade of experience as a prosecutor, Dr Kim has handled a wide range of criminal cases, including juvenile crime and violence against women.  Her main research interests are the juvenile justice system, cyber crime, and a criminal victim support system. 


Professor Eva Lohse

Eva Julia Lohse is a law professor at the University of Bayreuth, Germany and head of the Chair for Public, European, Environmental and Comparative Law since 2016. She has studied law in Erlangen (Germany), Lausanne (Switzerland) and at the University of Kent (UK). Her dissertation treated new forms of admininistrative action in German school law from a regulatory and governance perspective, her habilitation at the University of Freiburg/Brsg. was on "Harmonisation in EU law - instruments and mechanisms of successful harmonisation of law" (2017). 

In recent years, she has done thorough research on the connection of human rights law and climate change law, rights of nature, sustainability and participation, co-production of knowledge and environmental governance with a focus on water and marine environments and published widely in this field. Two recent publications are "Sustainability through Participation? Perspectives from National, European and International Law" (Brill, 2023) and "You cannot have the cake and eat it - how to reconcile liberal fundamental rights with answers to the climate crisis (with Maria Valeria Berros), ICL Journal 2023, 1-25, https://doi.org/10.1515/icl-2022-0018.

Eva visits the University of Queensland under the Bavarian-Queensland Seed Grant 2024/25 on renewable energies and climate change and pursues a comparative research project with Professor Justine Bell-James on communities and differences in the EU and Australian approaches to climate change policy (conservation of CO2-sinks, biodiversity and mitigation of CO2-emissions by certificate trade).