Professor Dr. Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi
Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi is Professor of Law and Governance at the University of Groningen, Faculty of Law, since 2010. Previously, she was a senior researcher and senior lecturer at the University of Bremen in Germany, and a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford. She authored and (co-)edited several publications in European and comparative law, including books published by Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. Since 2014 she is the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance (EJCL), which is a Web of Science journal published by Brill.
Since November 2019 she is the academic director of the Groningen Law Faculty’s centre of expertise “Rethinking Public Interests in Private Relationships” (REPP), funded by the Law Sector Plan of the Dutch Government.
Mr Ian Forrester KC
Mr Ian Forrester KC, a graduate of Glasgow University and Tulane University, Louisiana, joined the Faculty in 1972, and took silk in 1988. He enjoyed a distinguished career, during which he also became a member of the New York State bar, the bar of England and Wales, and the Brussels bar.
Among his many appointments has been Honorary Professor of European Law at Glasgow University, and as well as appearing in Scottish, English and Belgian courts, he conducted cases before the three European Community Courts and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
In 2015, Mr Forrester was appointed to the EU General Court in Luxembourg and served until January 2020.
Mr Forrester lectures on EC trade, competition, legal and policy topics to various academic and private bodies in Amsterdam, Brussels, Cannes, Chicago, Edinburgh, Florence, Glasgow, Lausanne, Leyden, London, Madrid, New York, Nice, Osaka (including the Kankeiren), Paris, Salzburg, Santander, Seoul, Seville, Tokyo (including the Keidanren), Vienna, Washington; courses on EC law in Grenoble and Paris (under the auspices of Tulane University); Salzburg (McGeorge University); Edinburgh (Law Society of Scotland, Edinburgh University); Glasgow (University of Glasgow); author or co-author of articles on EC competition and trade topics, and of translations of the German Civil Code, Commercial Code, and Introductory Law.
