Speakers info & video
Sacha Garben
In 2010, Professor Garben obtained her Phd at the European University Institute, winning the Jacqueline Suter Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in European Law from 2009 – 2011. In 2008, she spent a semester at Harvard Law School as a visiting scholar. She has since then worked at the Court of Justice of the European Union and at the London School of Economics.
Furthermore, she worked as a Legal Officer on EU labour law on the European Commission from 2013, until joining the College of Europe in 2015. Additionally, Professor Garben teaches the seminar Constitutional and Substantive Aspects of the Division of Competences between the EU and the Member States, as well as the Legal Methodology Course.
Thomas Devine
Thomas Devine is an incoming Trainee Solicitor at the London office of Linklaters, an international law firm. Upon joining, he is hoping to focus on international finance and insolvency, which are the fields he specialised in during his LLM at the London School of Economics last year.
In Maastricht, Thomas obtained his European Law School LLB in 2018. Alongside, he also completed the Corporate Finance Law honours track and was a research assistant for the Cross-Border Corporate Mobility in the EU project. Outside of the law faculty, Thomas worked part-time for UM’s Student Project Team and was President of Rhetorica Debating Society.
Thomas will be sharing his advice and strategies for securing a Training Contract in an international commercial law firm in London as a UM student (studying law or otherwise).
Twan van Erp
Twan van Erp currently works as a Policy officer on EU staffing issues as a part of the permanent representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the EU at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Previously, he worked at the European Commission as a Blue book trainee, where he worked on projects on internal communication and internal control and risk management. For his education, he studied at Radboud University Nijmegen, where he received a Bachelor in Communication and Information Sciences, a pre-master in Public Administration and a MSC in Comparative Public Administration and Society.
Caroline Calomme
Caroline Calomme is a European Law School graduate from Maastricht University (cum laude) and obtained a Magister Juris from the University of Oxford (with distinction).
She is an advocate for legal innovation, who is behind the launch of the ‘Legal Hackers’ movement in Belgium. Aside from this she also has previous experience as a private law lecturer, software product manager, data protection researcher and startup co-founder. She works as a freelancer for and has come into contact with many companies, such as Lexigogo.
Rabea Lingier
Rabea Lingier earned a Bachelor as well as a Master of Laws degree from the University of Maastricht. Rabea Lingier is an associate at the Düsseldorf office of Baker McKenzie. She specialises in transfer pricing, reorganisation and supply chain transformation for multinationals, and has particular expertise in the taxation of permanent establishments.
Rabea Lingier’s practice focuses on defending transfer price regimes in tax audits and court proceedings and in mutual agreement and arbitration procedures, advance pricing agreements and tax rulings. As a certified tax adviser, Rabea Lingier is admitted to the German tax bar.
Before joining the Firm in 2016, she worked in the International Tax / Transfer Pricing team at a Big Four accounting firm.
She is also currently writing her PhD thesis on the topic Permanent Establishment discrimination at Radboud University in Nijmegen.
