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Teresa Silva holds an LLB and a PhD in Constitutional Law, and her area of expertise is in European Union Constitutional Law and Latin America integration; and, she am licensed to practice law with more than fourteen years of experience in Civil and Public Law. Teresa has taught modules including constitutional law, human rights and EU law, at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Teresa is currently an independent legal researcher, advising law firms, academics and public bodies in comparative law; and, she is a Blended Law Tutor and a Law Module Author at Arden University. Teresa has a significant publications record including one book in Comparative Constitutional Law, a book in Human Rights, as well as a large number of articles. Her articles are published in journals in Argentina, Mexico, Spain as well as Uruguay, giving her a wide platform of publishing across a number of Latin American as well as Spanish speaking counties. Teresa is also a monthly columnist on the latest European Constitutional Law Developments for an Argentine Law Review. Teresa was the winner of the “Estimulo” prize in Human Rights Law granted by the Argentina Academy of Law and has also won the “Accésit” prize in Constitutional Law, granted by the Argentine Bar Association.

Purnima Kumar completed her Bachelors of Engineering in Applied Chemistry at Kyushu University, Japan. As part of her Bachelor Research, she worked on treating inflammatory diseases in particular atopic dermatitis with the help of phospholipid microparticles.

The work from her research got published in the Journal of Biomedical Sciences, Polymer Science edition (2014). She then moved to Oxford for obtaining a Masters in Pharmacology. During this time she also travelled to Australia (University of Queensland) to complete her research Project which focused on studying Bronchiolitis in infants. She is now doing her DPhil in Pharmacology under the supervision of Professor Angela Russell, specializing on treating Leukemia with the stem cell approach. Purnima worked as an academic support worker for disabled students during her DPhil in Oxford. She has also assisted several seminar and practical classes for Medicine students at Oxford. She also worked to teach underprivileged students in India.