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LL.M. Programme Director, Professor Andreas Ziegler will be teaching during the summer school “Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity in International Law: Human Rights and Beyond” at the University of Leiden.

LL.M. Programme Director, Professor Andrea Bonomi will be giving a talk "At the crossroad between state courts' litigation and international arbitration: common problems and potential crossfertilization" organised by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo.

LL.M. Programme Director, Professor Andreas Ziegler will be opening the ISDC conference "The Worldview Implication for the Purpose and Method of Comparative Law".

LL.M. Programme Director, Professor Eva Lein is giving a talk on the Comparative Law in the frame of the Conference honoring Professor Linda Silberman at the New York University School of Law.

In view of our forthcoming Call for Papers on Business and Human Rights (to be released by Professors Andreas R. Ziegler and Damiano Canapa on December 19th), our Executive Director, Shaheeza Lalani, and LL.M. candidate, Izabel Cardozo, attended the 11th Session of the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights at the Palais de Nations.

LL.M. Programme Director, Professor Andreas Ziegler will deliver a note on models of economic integration at the University in Naples.

LL.M. Programme Director, Professor Andrea Bonomi was invited by the French Committee of Private International Law to comment on a draft French Code of Private International Law. Only two foreign professors were invited by the French Committee for discussions on the draft Code.

30 September 2022

LL.M. Programme Director, Professor Andreas Ziegler will deliver a Welcome Address at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of International Law and the Swiss Branch of the International Law Association.

15 September 2022

LL.M. Programme Director, Professor Andrea Bonomi and the Centre of Comparative, European and International Law at the University of Lausanne are organising the 4th edition of the Journée de droit patrimonial international at the AULA of IDHEAP. Around 100 participants are registered to attend (physically or remotely), in particular Swiss lawyers and notaries. This year edition will deal with international inheritance law, in particular in situations involving common law jurisdictions (UK and US). Among the speakers, there are several experts from the UK and the US (in particular two English barristers and a New York attorney). The conference will be partly in English and partly in French. The programme is available here.

September   2022

LL.M. Programme Director, Professor Andrea Bonomi is delivering a key note address on the topics "Blockchain and Private International Law" at the HCCH Conference on Commercial, Digital and Financial Law Across Borders, organized by The Hague Conference of Private International Law: https://www.hcch.net/en/projects/post-convention-projects/hcch-codifi-conference. On this same topic, he is editing, together with Professor Matthias Lehmann and Dr Shaheeza Lalani, a collection of essays, in a forthcoming volume of the Unil-Brill Series "International and Comparative Business Law and Public Policy" (https://brill.com/view/serial/BLPP). The book is discussed on the Delos Tech Channel: https://delosdr.org/university-of-lausanne-legal-tech-news/.

2022

LL.M. Programme Director, Professor Andrea Bonomi publishes a new, completely updated and revised edition of the Commentary on the Swiss Private International Act, of which previous editions were written by the late Professor Bernard Dutoit, former Director of the CDCEI.

LL.M. Programme Director, Professor Andreas Ziegler is giving a teaching during the Summer School on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in International Law (The Hague and Amsterdam, 27 July – 5 August 2022).

25 June 2022

LL.M. Programme Director, Professor Andreas Ziegler is giving a teaching in the LL.M. Programme of LUISS - Law School in Rome, Italy - on the (re)regulation of international economic relations.

LL.M. Programme Director, Professor Eva Lein chaired a meeting to discuss the future activities of the Faculty's Digital Hub. Professor Lein is also a member ot the Hub's Steering Committee. 

17 June 2022

June   2022

LL.M. Programme Director, Professor Andreas Ziegler along with his PhD student, Ms. Maha Meier, published a chapter in the book on statute of limitations for international crimes under Swiss law. 

April    2022

LL.M. Programme Director, Professor Andreas Ziegler was elected president of the European Law Faculties Association (ELFA).

LL.M. Programme Director, Professor Andreas Ziegler is moderating a panel on "Artificial Intelligence and the Law" at the Annual Meeting of the European Law Faculties Asssociation (ELFA) in Warsaw.

April 2022

LL.M. Programme Director, Professor Andreas Ziegler published a chapter on sexual orientation in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights. 

8 March 2022

To commemorate International Women's Day, LL.M. Executive Director, Dr Shaheeza Lalani, took on a mentorship role with The Professional Women's Group of the global not-for-profit organization, Dress for Success. The organisation "empowers women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life." 

8 March 2022

LL.M. Programme Director, Professor Eva Lein is moderating an event co-organised with BIICL, Center for AI and Data Governance (CAIDG) of the Singapore Management University and University of Lausanne on the topic of Smart Cities, Platform Economy and how to protect the vulnerable.

March 2022

LL.M. Programme Director, Professor Andreas Ziegler is teaching a course on “Human Rights and the LGBTQI Movement” in the Human Rights Master (postgraduate programme) of the University of Vienna.

23 February 2022

We welcomed a new LL.M. class with a Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Dispute Resolution organised by one of our LL.M. Programme Directors, Professor Eva Lein, with paper presentations by scholars and experts in the field of artificial intelligence.