NZCIEL alumni
Explore the NZCIEL alumni, including former visiting scholars and postdoctoral fellows who have contributed to the Centre’s research and academic legacy.
Postdoctoral fellows
2023
Nikita Melashchenko served as the NZCIEL Postdoctoral Fellow from 2023 to 2024 and now contributes to the Centre as Co-Director, supporting its organisational development and advancing its research initiatives.
2012
Associate Professor
Universitas Pelita Harapan
Associate Professor Michelle Limenta served as the NZCIEL Postdoctoral Fellow from 2012 to 2014 and continues her engagement with the Centre as a valued research affiliate.
Visiting scholars
2017
Professor
University of San Diego, School of Law
Professor Lisa Ramsey was the NZCIEL Visiting Scholar in 2017 and is currently a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, where she is a founding member of the Center for Intellectual Property Law and Markets.
Professor Ramsey teaches and writes in the areas of trademark law, intellectual property, and international intellectual property. Her scholarship focuses on the potential conflict between trademark rights and free expression in national and international laws.
Before joining the University of San Diego law faculty, Professor Ramsey was an intellectual property litigator for several years in San Diego, California.
2016
Associate Professor
Texas Tech University, School of Law
Dr Barbara Lauriat was the NZCIEL Visiting Scholar in 2016 and is an Associate Professor at Texas Tech University, School of Law. Before joining Texas Tech, she taught intellectual property law at King’s College London (2011–2022) and held a fellowship at St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford.
Dr Lauriat specialises in intellectual property law with a comparative and historical focus. She has held visiting positions at institutions such as the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, NYU, and the University of British Columbia.
Dr Lauriat holds degrees from Mount Wachusett Community College, Boston University, and the University of Oxford.
2015
Gary Born
Adjunct Professor
University of Pennsylvania, Carey Law School
Gary Born was the NZCIEL Visiting Scholar in 2015 and is currently Chair of the International Arbitration Practice Group at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, based in London, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
Widely regarded as the world’s pre-eminent authority on international commercial arbitration and international litigation, he has served as counsel in over 675 arbitrations, including some of the largest in ICC and ad hoc history. He has also acted as arbitrator in more than 250 cases.
Gary is a prolific author whose works include International Commercial Arbitration (3rd ed., Kluwer, 2020), the leading treatise in the field.
While in New Zealand, Gary presented his initiative for a Bilateral Arbitration Treaty (BAT), proposing international arbitration as the default dispute-resolution mechanism between treaty parties to address inefficiencies in cross-border litigation.
Read Petra Butler and Campbell Herbert's paper Access to Justice for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: a case for a Bilateral Arbitration Treaty regime.
As part of the NZCIEL Inaugural Senior Visiting Research Fellowship, Gary participated in two public discussion forums:
- "The Rainbow Warrior- A Game Changer? A 30 Year Retrospective" - Gary Born acted as counsel for Greenpeace in the Greenpeace v France arbitration.
- "Public forum on a Bilateral Arbitration Treaty Regime".