Velkommen til Mikkel, Sean, Lesley og Stefanie

(In English below)

I løbet af juli og august er følgende fire medarbejdere blevet tilknyttet Juridisk Institut: Mikkel Lyng Kolenda, Sean Beagan, Lesley Akua Twum Wittendorff og Stefanie Vickweshan.

Mikkel Lyng Kolenda er startet som videnskabelig assistent i privatretsgruppen på instituttet.

Han er netop blevet færdig som cand.merc.jur. på SDU og har haft flere studenterjob både på og uden for universitete. Han har bl.a. arbejdet som instruktor i de formueretlige fag i mange år, og disse kommer han til at dyrke videre i sit arbejde som videnskabelig assistent, hvor han bl.a. skal undervise i fagene Formueret, Kreditsikring og Civil tvangsfuldbyrdelse samt Erhvervsret. Mikkel har bl.a. en særlig passion for informations- og IT-retlige emner, herunder rets- og kontraktøkonomiske problematikker. 

Sean Beagan er fra Skotland and er blevet ansat på instituttet som videnskabelig assistent. Før sin ansættelse på SDU underviste han på folkeretsinstituttet på Johannes-Gutenberg Universitetet i Mainz, Tyskland. 

Sean’s forskningsinteresser er international købelovgivning og international voldgift. Han har igennem sin karriere også haft fokus på “moot courts” (dvs. fiktive retssager for jurastuderende, organiseret som konkurrencer) og vil derfor blive en del af teamet af moot court-coaches på instituttet. 

Lesley Akua Twum Wittendorff er blevet ansat som ph.d.-studerende. Hun blev uddannet cand.jur. fra Aalborg Universitet i 2019 og kommer fra en stilling som juridisk fuldmægtig ved Erhvervsstyrelsen, hvor hun har beskæftiget sig med EU-statsstøtteregler samt erhvervsfremmeprojekter.

Lesleys ph.d.-projekt er inden for IP-retten (dvs. Intellectual Property Rights, som er den engelske betegnelse for immaterialret) og omhandler dens materielle bestemmelser. Projektet har til formål at undersøge forholdet mellem IP-retten og brugen af kunstig intelligens og at undersøge, hvordan udviklingen af kunstig intelligens kan udfordre den IP-retlige regulering.

Lesley er tilknyttet forskningsgruppen Privatret, og professor mso Torsten Bjørn Larsen er hovedvejleder på hendes projekt.

Stefanie Vickweshan er blevet ansat som videnskabelig assistent og er tilknyttet forskningsgruppen Retten i samfundet.

Hun er uddannet cand.jur. fra SDU, og i løbet af sin studietid havde hun en særlig interesse for strafferetten, straffuldbyrdelse og International Human Rights. Hun tilegnede sig viden inden for disse områder via både studiet og sit arbejde som studentermedhjælper ved Fyns Politi. Stefanies bachelorprojekt handlede om uberettigede overførsler af indsatte, og emnet i specialet var kønsminoriteters rettigheder i kriminalforsorgens institutioner.

Stefanie har haft mulighed for at beskæftige sig med en bred vifte af juridiske problemstillinger og tvister i kraft af sit frivillige job som retshjælpsleder ved den virtuelle retshjælp Retshjælperen.

På Juridisk Institut skal Stefanie udarbejde forskningsansøgninger og understøtte sin forskningsgruppes aktiviteter, herunder bidrage til diverse undervisningsrelaterede opgaver.

Hjerteligt velkommen til jer alle fire! Vi glæder os til at arbejde sammen med jer.

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During July and August, the following four employees have joined the Department of Law: Mikkel Lyng Kolenda, Sean Beagan, Lesley Akua Twum Wittendorff and Stefanie Vickweshan.

Mikkel Lyng Kolenda has started as a research assistant in the private law group at the department.

He has just graduated with a Master of Business Law from SDU and has held several student jobs both at the university and outside of it. He has worked as an instructor in property law courses for many years, and he will continue to focus on these areas in his work as a research assistant, where he will teach courses such as Propefgt6 Law, Credit Security and Civil Enforcement and Business Law. Mikkel has a particular passion for information and IT law topics, including legal and contract economic issues.

Sean Beagan is from Scotland and joins the department as a research assistant. Prior to his job at SDU, Sean taught in the international private law department at the Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. 

Sean’s research interests include international sales law and arbitration. Throughout his career, he has also focused on moot courts (i.e. simulated court cases for law students, organized as competitions) and will therefore join the team of moot court coaches at the department.

Lesley Akua Twum Wittendorff has been hired as a PhD student. She graduated with a Master of Laws from Aalborg University in 2019 and comes from a position as a legal officer at the Danish Business Authority, where she dealt with EU state aid rules and promotion of trade projects. 

Lesley’s PhD project deals with IP L aw (i.e., Intellectual Property Rights) and concerns its substantive provisions. The project aims to investigate the relationship between IP law and the use of artificial intelligence and to examine how the development of artificial intelligence can challenge IP law regulation. Lesley is affiliated with the Private Law research group, and Professor MSO Torsten Bjørn Larsen is the main supervisor of her project.

Stefanie Vickweshan has been hired as a research assistant and is affiliated with the Law in Society research group.

She graduated with a Master of Laws from SDU, and during her studies, she had a particular interest in criminal law, criminal enforcement, and International Human Rights. She gained knowledge in these areas through both her studies and her work as a student assistant at the Funen Police. Stefanie’s bachelor’s project dealt with unjustified transfers of inmates, and the topic of her thesis was gender minorities' rights in the institutions of the criminal justice system. Stefanie has had the opportunity to deal with a wide range of legal issues and disputes through her voluntary job as a legal aid leader at the virtual legal aid service Retshjælperen. At the Department of Law, Stefanie will prepare research applications and support her research group’s activities, including contributing to various teaching-related tasks.

We welcome all of you and look forward to working with you!