Team Multilevel Regulation

Dr. Barbara Warwas has been employed at THUAS since 2016 in roles as coordinator and lecturer at the International and European Law Programme. In 2018 she was appointed as Professor of Multilevel Regulation. In 2019, she additionally became the Director of the Global Governance Centre of Expertise. Barbara is the author of The Liability of Arbitral Institutions: Legitimacy Challenges and Functional Responses published by Springer, 2016. In 2014, she worked as a drafter, researcher, and administrator for the ground-breaking study on the Legal Instruments and Practices of Arbitration in the EU and Switzerland, commissioned by the European Parliament. Barbara has a PhD in Law from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Prior to joining The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Barbara worked as visiting counsel in the litigation department at GE Oil & Gas in Florence and in the Italian law firm Studio Legale Calabresi Guadalupi.

Dr. Agota Szabo is a Senior Lecturer in board governance and leadership at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. Her research interests lie in civic leadership, non-profit management, board behavior and good governance practices of the boardroom. Next to her academic and lecturing activities Agota serves as a board advisor to large not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations. 

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Amanda Kemshaw is both the coordinator and a lecturer in the Dispute Resolution Minor, Advocacy & Conflict Management and Trial Practice modules and has a particular research interest in alternative dispute resolution mechanisms including mediation and international arbitration. She is also a lecturer in the LAW programme. 

Member of the Confederation of European Probation, European Forum for Restorative Justice and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee. Her current research projects explore the intersection of climate change and policing, (im)possibilities of restorative justice in a time of war(s), and the role of creative assignments in higher education.  

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Kanan’s research activities center around bringing innovative thinking in the way law is practiced and created. She investigates the role of technology and human-centered design in developing newer solutions. She is also engaged with the LegalTech startup world, emphasizing the entrepreneurial and innovative thinking.

Dr. Vasileios P. Karakasis is a lecturer in European Studies at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Southeast Europe Program of ELIAMEP. He previously worked as a lecturer in International and European Governance at Leiden University, where he earned his PhD in Governance and Global Affairs.

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Sylvia’s research focuses on multi-level governance issues in the areas of climate change adaptation (especially heatwaves), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and public safety, climate change policing and environmental crime, as well as future professionals’ skills to achieve the SDGs. She is also associate professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam.