Georges Baur
is a research fellow with the Liechtenstein-Institut. Previously he served as the Assistant Secretary General of efta and as Deputy Head of Mission of the Liechtenstein Mission to the EU, both in Brussels. He obtained his PhD from Zurich University and is a guest lecturer with various European Universities. Georges’ main research interests are EU relations with neighbouring (groups of) countries, such as efta, UK-EU and Switzerland-EU.
Mattia Brugger
is a graduate student at the University of Oxford. Previously, he was Junior Research Fellow at the Chair of Public Law, European Law and International Economic Law at the University of Zurich.
Merijn Chamon
is Assistant Professor of EU Law at Maastricht University and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges). He obtained his PhD at Ghent University. Merijn’s research interests encompass EU constitutional law, EU institutional law and the law of EU external relations.
Michael Hahn
is Professor of Law at the University of Bern, Managing Director of its Institute of European and International Economic Law and a Director at its World Trade Institute; he is an Adjunct Professor at the Europa-Institute of Saarland University, where he is also co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Europarechtliche Studien (ZEuS) and an Honorary Professor at the University of Waikato School of Law (Hamilton, NZ). He holds degrees from the University of Heidelberg and the University of Michigan Law School. Michael is on the list of arbitrators for ceta, cptpp, the sadc-eu Economic Partnership Agreement and the tca and teaches, researches and consults on international trade law, Swiss-EU bilateral relations and EU external relations law.
Christophe Hillion
is Professor of European Law at the University of Oslo; and senior adviser at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (sieps) in Stockholm. He has published on the constitutional law and external action of the European Union. He is co-editor of the Common Market Law Review, and a member of the Advisory board of Państwo i Prawo, and Anti-Discrimination Law Review.
is a retired partner of ey and a certified tax advisor and has spent the last 28 years working in tax consulting for banks and financial service providers. He is also a lecturer at the Universities of St. Gallen, Vaduz and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. He studied at the University of St. Gallen, where he also received his doctorate. Jochen was intensively involved in the negotiations of Switzerland and Liechtenstein with the US in the area of fatca and the implementation of various transparency initiatives (most recently the automatic exchange of information and the dac6 regulations). He was also a member of various joint working groups of the Swiss Federal Department of Finance.
Christine Kaddous
is Professor of EU law at the University of Geneva, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, Director of the Centre d’études juridiques européennes (ceje) and of the Master in European and International Governance (meig Programme). She is also Visiting Professor at the University Paris ii (Panthéon Assas) and has been Visiting Professor at different universities and the College of Europe (Bruges/Natolin). She holds degrees from the Universities of Neuchâtel, Cambridge and Libre de Bruxelles. She practised law in the field of Commercial and trade law. She is on the list of chairpersons for arbitrations and tsd expert panel proceedings for dispute settlement under the trade agreements concluded by the EU with third countries. She teaches, researches and consults on international trade law, internal market law, judicial protection, Swiss-EU bilateral agreements and EU external relations law. She has published extensively. Among her recent publications: Some Thoughts on the EU New Generation of Free Trade Agreements (2022); Die Zusammenarbeit zwischen der EU und der Schweiz (2022); Directive 2004/38 on the free movement of citizens (2020).
Marc Maresceau
(Ghent University) is visiting professor College of Europe, Bruges-Natolin; “Full fellowship”, The Johns Hopkins University (Bologna); “Boursier de la Conféderation Suisse”; Leverhulme Fellow, Edinburgh University; British Academy Visiting Fellowship; Belgian Chair, King’s College, London; Course Hague Academy of International Law; “professeur invité”: Bordeaux, Rennes, Paris ii, Nice; professore a contratto : Bologna, Pisa (Scuola Sant’ Anna); visiting professor China University of Political Science and Law; Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Roma Tre. Founder and General Editor Studies in EU External Relations (seur), Brill.
is a tax advisor at EY Switzerland, where she provides tax consultancy services to banks and other financial service providers in all areas of Swiss taxation, with a focus on Swiss operational taxes. She is a Swiss-certified tax advisor and holds a Master’s degree in Law and Economics from the University of St. Gallen.
Pauline Melin
is Assistant Professor of EU Law at Maastricht University where she obtained her PhD on the external dimension of EU social security coordination in 2018. Prior to her current position, she combined a lectureship at Maastricht University teaching internal market law with a postdoctoral position at KU Leuven. Pauline Melin is also responsible for writing reports on the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union for the European Journal of Social Security.
Matthias Oesch
is Professor of Public Law, European Law and International Economic Law at the University of Zurich. Previously, he worked as Attorney-at-Law at Homburger AG, Zurich, as an Assistant Professor at the University of Bern and as Legal Counsel at the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco) in Bern, Switzerland. He has published extensively in the field of EU Law and Swiss-EU Bilateral Relations, including the following two books: Europarecht, Band i: Grundlagen, Institutionen, Verhältnis Schweiz-EU, 2nd ed. (Stämpfli, 2019); Switzerland – European Union: General Framework, Bilateral Agreements, Autonomous Adaptation (dike/Nomos, 2018).
Kurt Pärli
is a Full Professor of Private Social Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Basel since February 2016. His research focuses on discrimination protection law, labour and international labour law, social security law and data protection law. Kurt Pärli is also President of the Swiss Section of the International Association for Labour and Social Security Law (islssl), which was founded in 2017.
Benedikt Pirker
is a Senior Lecturer at the Chair for European Law, International Law and Public Law of the University of Fribourg. He read EU and international law, among others, at the College of Europe and the Graduate Institute Geneva. He taught, among others, at the Universities of Ottawa, St. Gallen and Bern and conducted
René Schwok
is a full professor at the Global Studies Institute and the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Geneva. He has been Director of the Global Studies Institute and of the Master in European Studies. He is Director of the Master of Advanced Studies in International Security. He holds a Jean Monnet Chair in Political Science. He specialises in issues related to the external dimension of the European Union, Swiss-European Union relations and security in Europe.
Christa Tobler
is Professor of European Law at the Universities of Basel (Switzerland) and Leiden (the Netherlands). Her publications focus in particular on EU non-discrimination law and EU-Swiss legal relations, seen in the broader context of EU association law; most recently ‘Citizenship of the Association’: the examples of Turkey and Switzerland’, in: Dora Kostakopoulou/Daniel Thym (eds.), Research Handbook on European Union Citizenship Law and Policy. Navigating Challenges and Crises (Edward Elgar, 2022), 320-342 (together with Narin Idriz).
Peter Van Elsuwege
is Professor of EU law and Jean Monnet Chair at Ghent University, where he is also co-director of the Ghent European Law Institute (geli). In addition, he is a visiting professor at the College of Europe (Natolin Campus) and a board member of the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (cleer) at the Asser Institute in The Hague. His research activities essentially focus on the law of EU external relations and EU constitutional law.