Siqi Lu is a PhD researcher at the University of Mannheim. Her research interests lie at the intersection of fundamental rights theory, transnational legal pluralism, and blockchain governance.

Siqi's work at ACIL will focus on her thesis project on fundamental rights beyond the state within blockchain-based systems. Blockchain networks unsettle a basic premise of rights doctrine: they operate transnationally and polycentrically, and participants can be excluded or overruled by coded governance without any state actor involved. Against this background, the project asks what freedom under law consists of when conceived independently of the state. It further aims to identify the anchor points at which state and state-like regulators can still engage with such environments in order to fulfil their protective obligations.

Christos is a PhD Researcher and Lecturer at the Sciences Po Law School in Paris. His research interests include general public international law, with emphasis on the notion of subjecthood, international environment and climate change law and feminist and queer approaches to international law and legal theory.

Christos' work at ACIL will focus on the core of his PhD project examining the futurity narratives of international climate change law through the lens of the rights of future generations. While integral to the discipline, time has been primarily perceived as external to international law, while the future, more specifically, is understood as an open place of endless possibilities and hope. In this regard, Christos' research tries to approach the relationship between temporality and international law through a narratology lens aiming to highlight how they both interact as mediating forces of prior and future experiences in international climate change law.