Introducing guest researcher Paul P. Stewens

Paul P. Stewens is a guest researcher at the Faculty of Law's Department of Criminal Law and Criminology (until 4th of July 2022) , working with MACCH affiliated researcher Donna Yates among others. His work focuses on the illicit trade in fossils and its regulation under public international law to counteract harmful extractive practices in palaeontology (such as parachute science) and to address the widespread phenomenon of colonial fossil looting. He is an undergraduate student of international relations at Technische Universität Dresden and an incoming student of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. If you are interested in his research or would like to collaborate with Paul, please reach out to paul.stewens@maastrichtuniversity.nl.