Chercheurs invités

Tarcisio GAZZINI (formerly professor at the Free University of Amsterdam and at the University of Glasgow; Professor at the University of East Anglia and Guest Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva), spent three years as Visiting Research Fellow and Project Leader for the Project "Foreign Investment in Africa" [SNF-funded project] from 2014-2017 at our Centre. More...

Duina PORTO joins us from our partner university UFPB (Universidade Federal da Paraiba) in João Pessoa (Brazil). She works on the reform of the legal system required to accomodate intimate relationships that are not exclusive with respect to other sexual or intimate relationships, with knowledge and consent of everyone involved, i.e. polyamory. She contributes to our work on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law (LGBTI). More...

Bojun LI joins us from Xiangtan University (Hunan Province, China) where he is an associate professor of public international law and international relations and acts as the Director of the Centre for the Law of War and Armed Conflict. He works currently on current problems of international humanitarian Law (IHL), inparticular the role of the ICRC and modern conflicts and contributes to our work in this field. More...

Vandanet HING visited the Chair of International Law at the CDCEI from May to July 2017 as part of the EU Project Horizon 2020 as a guest researcher. Ms. Hing is a lecturer and researcher at Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE), Cambodia. Ms. Hing specializes in international humanitarian law (IHL) and human rights law. Alongside her research and teaching role, she coaches RULE students to participate in IHL Moot national and international round. She also provides IHL trainings to pre-deployment Cambodian peacekeepers.Ms. Hing holds a Master of Laws in Human Rights from the University of Hong Kong and a Bachelor of law from RULE. More...

Annuska MACEDO SANTOS DE FRANCA PAIVA visited the Chair of International Law at the CDCEI from July to December 2017. She is a Law Professor at the Instituto Federal de Paraiba and a Ph.D. Candidate in Brazil. Her research is focused on how States can address Corporate Social Responsibility using regulations and public policies. The visiting researcher, hosted by  Professor Andreas  Ziegler, was granted a CAPES/Brazil scholarship for a 6 months period at UNIL. More...

Alphonse MULEEFU visited the Chair from September 2017 to June 2018. He is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law of the University of Rwanda and a member of Rwanda Bar Association - Partner at Premier Law Chambers Ltd. He will be conducting a Post doctorate research at the UNIL and is an External Research Fellow at the International Victimology Institute of Tilburg University. More...

Phuong AN NGUYEN visited The Centre of Comparative, European and International Law at the University of Lausanne as a fellow researcher for two months. She is a teacher and researcher in International Law at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Law. Her fields of interest are Human Rights and Public International Law. Phuong An was invited to Lausanne through the EU Project Horizon 2020 by Prof. Andreas R. Ziegler, under whom she conducted a research

Hoàng Thai Hi NGUYEN visited The Centre of Comparative, European and International Law at the University of Lausanne as a fellow researcher for two months. He is a teacher and researcher in International Commercial Law at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Law. His fields of interest are International Sale of Goods Contract Law, International Investment Law, WTO Law, Competition Law and Policy, Law and Economics, ASEAN Law and International Dispute Settlement. Hoang Thai Hy was invited to Lausanne through the EU Project Horizon 2020 by Prof. Andreas R. Ziegler, under whom he conducted a research.

Piya WONGPIT visited the Chair of International Law at the CDCEI from June 2017 to May 2018 as part of the EU Project Horizon 2020 as a guest researcher. He is a researcher at the University of Lao and holds a Doctor in Economic Development and Policy from Kobe University in Japan. His research interests are micro finance, international trade and economic development.  More.

Boutsakhone KEORODOM visited the Chair of International Law at the CDCEI as part of the EU Project Horizon 2020 as a guest researcher from September 2018 to December 2018. She is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Economic and Business Management at the National University of Laos (NUOL). She obtained a Master in Development, Environment and Societies at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Gembloux in Belgium. Her research interests are tourism management, marketing and entrepreneurship and business in the field of agriculture. More...

Alay PHONVISAY visited the Chair of International Law at the CDCEI as part of the EU Project Horizon 2020 as a guest researcher from September 2018 to December 2018. He is a Lecturer with the Faculty of Economic and Business Management at the National University of Laos (NUOL), where he teaches econometrics, development studies, and regional economic integration. Alay holds a Masters Degree in Economics and PhD in Economics from the Graduate School of International Studies at Kobe University. Prior to joining NUOL, he was a Data Analysis and Evaluation Specialist with the Poverty Reduction Fund. He has worked with both national and international organizations in conducting impact assessments for development projects across the Lao PDR. Alay’s primary areas of expertise include monitoring and evaluation, policy and program analysis, and applied economic research with a focus on health, industrial policy, trade and poverty reduction. He has conducted numerous research projects in the fields of health economics, economic development, and international trade. Alay is experienced in developing and implementing complex field projects using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Alay is fluent in Lao, Thai, English, and Japanese. More...

Lay KONG visited the Chair of International Law at the CDCEI as part of the EU Project Horizon 2020 as a guest researcher from September 2018 to December 2018. Mr. Lay Kongis a deputy head department of accounting and management, and he is also a researcher at the Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE), Cambodia. He specializes in business management. His research interests are business management and staff motivation. During his research visit, he conducted a research. Mr. Lay Kong hold a Master in Business Management from Charles Sturt University. More...

Barbara MATEO (Expert on the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation) visited the Chair of International Law at the CDCEI as part of the Platform onn Business and Human Rights as a guest researcher from October 2018 to April 2019. She has worked closely with Governments, the United Nations of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the InterAmerican Development Bank (IADB) to operationalize these rights under their areas of competence, including laws, projects, policies, programmes and general performance. She is an active member of several Working Groups in the WASH sector, such as, UNICEF & WHO (on affordability criteria), or UNECE (on equitable access to water and sanitation). She obtained a Masters in International Relations and Economy at the Spanish Diplomatic School, and a Postgrade Diploma in International Commerce and Advanced Management Skills in Spain. She is a qualified lawyer (5 years degree) in Spain, with a Diploma in International Law from the City University in the United Kingdom. Her research interest is the implementation of human rights and business in the field of WASH (and related areas).

Mr. THORNG Tedya Raksmey is a researcher from University of Law and Economics, Cambodia. He holds a master degree in insurance law from University of Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France, and he is doing his Phd at the same university in civil liability law. His research focus on insurance law, contractual and tort liability, especially the compensation of damages (moral, bodily injury, and property).

Mrs. Nguyen Thi Lan Huong is the Deputy Head of Department of International Trade Law and a lecturer in the Faculty of International Law, Ho Chi Minh city University of Law (HCMUL). She received a Master's degree in law from Nagoya University, Japan in 2012 within the framework of  human resources development scholarship funded by the Japanese government. She is currently a PhD Candidate at UNIL. Her dissertation relates to international investment law and sustainable development. Huong teaches and researches in the area of international trade law, international sales contract, WTO law, international investment law with a particular focus on the balance between trade and environment. Huong’s most recent books is “Investor-State dispute settlement: legal issues and practice in the context of intergartion”, 2018 (Co-editor and Co-author). She is a co-author of several chapters in the Text book on International Trade Law Part I and Part II, HCMUL. She is also a co-author of the book "Understanding WTO Law through a number of cases on subsidies" (Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Tran Thi Thuy Duong).

M. LE Tran Quoc Cong,  Professeur et chercheur à L’Université de Droit de Ho Chi Minh Ville, Vietnam depuis 2014. Actuellement, il donne des cours sur le droit international du commerce, le droit de l’arbitrage vietnamien, le droit du contrat international de marchandises et règlement des litiges de commerce international. Il a obtenu un Master 2 en Droit international et comparé des affaires par l’Université de Bordeaux dans le cadre de coopération entre l’Université de Bordeaux, l’Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, l’Université Lyon 3 Jean Moulin et l’Université de Droit de Ho Chi Minh Ville. Ses recherches portent principalement sur le droit international du commerce électronique et le droit commercial international. Prof. Andreas R. Ziegler l'a invité en qualité de chercheur et à travailler à l'UNIL pour une période de trois mois dans le Cadre du programme HR2020.

Trong Luan NGUYEN  Actuellement enseignant de la Faculté de Droit Civil à l’Université de Droit de Ho Chi Minh Ville au Vietnam. M. Trong Luan Nguyen est titulaire d'un Master 2 en droit de l’immatériel et des technologies de l’information délivré par l’Université Toulouse 1 Capitole. Son principal domaine de recherche est l’ensemble des problèmes juridiques relatifs à la propriété intellectuelle et à la protection des biens incorporels (droit d’auteur, droits voisins, brevet d’invention, marque, dessins et modèles industriels, indication géographique, obtention végétale, etc.). Par ailleurs, il s’intéresse aussi à un autre domaine, celui de la responsabilité délictuelle. Il est invité par Prof. Andreas R. Ziegler en qualité de chercheur à l’Université de Lausanne pour une période de 3 mois dans le cadre du programme HR2020.

Dr. Dina Chhorn received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Bordeaux in France, where he has also taught Econometrics and Statistics. In Cambodia, he has taught Public Economics, Inferential Statistics and World Economic History at Royal University of Law and Economics. In Switzerland, he pursues Postdoc Research in the Economics of Globalization, Inequality and Poverty in Asia at University of Lausanne.  

Soulita Tiengmany visited the Chair of International Law at the CDCEI as part of the EU Project Horizon 2020 as a guest researcher from September 2019 to February 2020. She is a Lecturer with the Department of Finance and Banking, Faculty of Economics and Business Management at the National University of Laos (NUOL), where she teaches English for finance, Basic and Advance finance, Banking and Insurance - Risk management. Soulita holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from NUOL and Master Degree in Business from Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand. Her research interests are microfinance, microinsurance, risk management and researches in the field of insurance.

Valérie Wyssbrod is a Visiting Fellow at the Chair of Public International Law at the Law School of the University of Lausanne (1-12/2020). She currently works on different topics in international environmental law. Apart from her research activity, she teaches “Biotechnologies et environnement juridique des sciences de la vie” at the University of Neuchâtel during the spring semester 2020. Her main research interests lie in the fields of the environmental law, law of the sea, biotechnology law, international governance and intellectual property law. Previously, Valérie worked as a Postdoc researcher at the Stockholm Environmental Law and Policy Centre at Stockholm University in Sweden (2018-2019) on her own project on protected areas and sustainable development with the support of the SNF (Early PostdocMobility). She has a PhD in Law (summa cum laude 2017) from the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland (Thesis subject: Marine genetic resources from areas beyond national jurisdictions). She was a researcher at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada (2014), and at the Queen Mary University London (QMUL) in the United Kingdom (2014-2015) with a fellowship from the SNF (DocMobility). She also worked as a teaching and research assistant at the Centre for Innovation Law and at the Health Law Institute of the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland (2010-2015). Valérie made her studies in Neuchâtel in Switzerland, Heidelberg in Germany and Newcastle in Australia and has obtained two masters, one MA in Law (2009) and one MA in Social Sciences (Journalism and Communication/ Sociology/ Psychology) (2005). More...

Benedict Vischer is a Visiting Fellow at the Chair of Public International Law at the Law School of the University of Lausanne (3-6/2020). He is a PhD student at Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany) and  a "re:constitution"-Fellow. He has previously been visting at the Hungarian Academyof Sciences in Budapest and is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (Germany),

Dr Belén Olmos Giupponi is an Associate Professor of Law and a Barrister (Abogada), qualified in Spain. Throughout her career, Dr Belén Olmos Giupponi has undertaken research in international economic law, dispute resolution and environmental law. She has extensively analysed labour, and environmental standards in the EU trade and investment policy, EU state aid, and Brexit legal implications, modelling alternative solutions for EU-UK trade and investment relations. As a visiting scholar at the University of Lausanne, Dr Olmos Giupponi is working on a project examining the relevance of international standards and non-trade issues in International Trade Law in the COVID10 context. Dr Olmos Giupponi is co-convener of the Interest Group on International Business and Human Rights at the European Society of International Law and has authored several articles in peer-reviewed journals and books such as International Environmental Law Compliance in Context (Routledge 2021), Trade Agreements, Investment Protection and Dispute Settlement in Latin America (Wolters Kluwer 2019), Rethinking Free Trade and Human Rights in the Americas (Hart 2016), and a Chapter on EU Common Commercial and Investment Policy in The Law of the EU (Oxford University Press 2015). From November 2021 Dr Olmos Giupponi will take up a Chair in Law at the University of Portsmouth.

Xuanyu Shang is a visiting fellow at the Chair of Public International Law at the Law School of the University of Lausanne (11/2022-11/2023). He is a Ph.D. candidate in International Economic Law from Shandong University, his current research focuses on the development of international economic law in the digital age, especially the obligations and responsibilities of the state in international trade and investment.

Christelle Molima, currently FNS Senior Researcher at the CDCEI-UNIL, obtained her PhD in Law from the University of Geneva. She holds a Master's degree in "Droit privé, parcours carrière judiciaire, option droits de l'enfant" from the Université Lumière Lyon 2 (Lyon, France) and a Master's degree in "Histoire des droits de l'homme, parcours recherche" from the Université Pierre-Mendès-France (Grenoble, France). She graduated from the Catholic University of Bukavu (Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo) with a Bachelor's degree (Bac+5) in Public Law, specialising in International Public Law. Through the analysis of two cases, Sierra Leone and Timor-Leste, Christelle Molima's research examines how national juvenile justice systems could have contributed to improving international justice responses, and thus international law, to crimes committed by child soldiers during armed conflict.

Michał Swarabowicz is an FNS Senior Researcher at the CDCEI-UNIL. He works at the intersection of international economic law, private international law, and comparative law. Having developed a critique of investment law and arbitration, Michał explores this regime’s historical role in internationalizing Western legal principles. He also dissects contradictions embedded in current operation of investment law, for instance by showing how investment law and arbitration exempts business interests from the liberal constitutional order it purports to enforce. Another strand of his research concerns international institutions' role in shaping legal architectures of market economies with a particular geographical focus on Central & Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. Michał earned his PhD in international law from Geneva Graduate Institute. He holds a master degree from Sciences Po Paris focused on transnational litigation as well as an LLM in International Dispute Settlement from Geneva. In addition, he completed a joint undergraduate degree in economics from Sciences Po Paris and SGH - Warsaw School of Economics. In Paris he also worked at a multinational law firm on energy-related arbitrations. He is fluent in English, French, Polish, Russian, and Italian. He also has basic proficiency in Mandarin Chinese.