Law and sustainable economic development in developing countries and LDC’s, law and multilayered economic and trade governance in Switzerland and Europe, international economic law and sustainability, and law and reconciliation of (direct) democracy with economic globalisation.
Coming in 2025:
– The Internationalisation of Law in Switzerland – State Order and Generational Justice (Habilitation)
– “Sustainable Development” in Swiss Law (edited volume, together with E. Bürgi Bonanomi & R. Koch)
– Greenwashing – from General Suspicion to Offence (edited volume, together with D. Dedeyan)
– Sustainability in Trade between Europe and Latin America (edited volume, together with R. Cezar)
Full list of publications here.
Trade and Democracy
Please, Reboot – Small Economies and the WTO Appellate Mechanism in Times of Trade War and COVID-19
Book Review: Jens Lehne, Crisis at the WTO: Is the Blocking of Appointments to the WTO Appellate Body by the United States Legally Justified?
The Dialectical Relationship of Preferential and Multilateral Trade Agreements (with T. Cottier & G. Wermelinger)
Variationen der regionalen Personenfreizügigkeit
Flexibility in International Economic Law vs Pacta Sunt Servanda: Maintaining Legitimacy Over Time
Democracy and Globalization: Legal and Political Analysis on the Eve of the 4th Industrial Revolution (with A. Ghibellini)
Switzerland and the EU
Handelsbeziehungen Schweiz-EU im globalen Kontext
The European Court of Justice and European Third Country Integration
Democratic Legitimation Without Transparency? The Peculiar Case of Modern Trade Agreements
Andocken der Schweiz an Handelsabkommen der Europäischen Union: Mitsprache und Demokratische Legitimation
Wirtschaften im rechtlichen Graubereich – Herausforderungen im Umgang mit Uber, Airbnb und Co.
«Offene Strategische Autonomie» in der EU-Handelspolitik: Auswirkungen auf europäische Drittstaaten
Trade and Development
Developing Countries and Preferential Services Trade
How Special and Differential Treatment is (Un)Able to Prevent Marginalisation of Low Income Economies
The Legal Character of Sino-African Tied Aid – Cunning Fox or Wise Dragon?
Labour Migration, Trade and Investment: From Fragmentation to Coherence (with T. Cottier)
Sustainable Development Goals vs Non-Discrimination in WTO Law: Does the End Justify the Means? (with S. Kalra & A. Vishwas Sheth)
Palmöl in der EFTA-Indonesien Wirtschaftspartnerschaft
Services Trade Liberalisation in the Australia-EU FTA: Progress but no Quantum-Leap
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