Leonardo P. Barbosa

Leonardo P. Barbosa

Leonardo P. Barbosa joins IGLP as a PhD student in Economic Law at the University of São Paulo (USP). His doctoral thesis centers around international regulatory standards about artificial intelligence (AI) and the dynamics of regulatory influence exercised by states and enterprises.

Leonardo holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Sao Paulo and a Master of Law from the University of Cambridge and the University of Sao Paulo. He has been a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich and a member of the Law and Public Policy Research Group (GDPP/USP) and the Understanding Artificial Intelligence Initiative (UAI/USP).

He also specializes in competition law & economic regulation and has been a lawyer practicing in the field for the past 10 years.

Yifeng Chen

Yifeng Chen

Yifeng Chen joins the IGLP as an Associate Professor at Peking University Law School. His research aims to develop a historical account of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in its promotion of industrialism as both a desired form of economic life as well as a legitimate institution for labour governance. By focusing on labour protection through regulating the industrial conditions and industrial relations, the ILO invented itself profoundly an industrial, economic organization, as much as a humanitarian one.

His project mainly employs historical studies including research into the archives of the ILO as well as its official documents. In addition, the project, being interdisciplinary by nature, will also look into sociological studies, economics and political philosophy.

Andrei Mamolea

Andrei Mamolea

Andrei Mamolea is an Assistant Professor at Boston University in the Pardee School of Global Studies. His research examines the history of international law in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing especially on legal culture in the United States and the Americas. Prior to joining the Pardee School, Mamolea held fellowships at the University of Copenhagen, McGill University Faculty of Law, and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History.

His current project examines the role of sovereigntism in United States foreign policy between 1881 and 1945.

Peter Quayle

Peter Quayle

Peter Quayle specialises in the law, governance and effectiveness of international organizations. He advises international organizations across the world, including the European Union, International Monetary Fund, United Nations and The World Bank. Peter has also served with the US Department of Justice (2004-2012), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (2012-2016) and as Chief Counsel, Corporate, he started-up the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in Beijing, China (2016-2020). As Executive Secretary, he administers the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal (since 2021). He lectures and researches on international organizations law—including at the University of Notre Dame, London Law Programme (2006-2017), Peking University Law School (2017-2021) and the University of Cambridge, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (2021)—and relatedly, writes for and edits academic legal publications.

His research at Harvard Law School (Institute for Global Law and Policy) intends to interrelate administrative innovation by the US Presidency internally and internationally during the 1930s and 1940s, with the aim of conceptualising international organizations as executive, experimental and time-limited New Deal-inspired agencies, not ‘super-State’ successors to the League of Nations. Consequently, this project reapproaches international organizations as deliberately ‘non-democratic’ but preservatory of democracy, expediently—but transitionally—responsive to crisis and forecasting their fragmentation, reform and (ultimately) replacement.