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Aliénor Nina Burghartz

Aliénor Nina Burghartz, Dr. iur. des., BA Econ., LL.M. (London), Rechtsanwältin

  • Guest Researcher

Curriculum Vitae

  • PhD studies in international financial and monetary law and legal sociology (August 2020 - November 2024); SNF Doc.CH fellow (May 2021 - November 2023); dissertation entitled 'Global Liquidity: A Transnational Legal Analysis', approved by the UZH Faculty of Law with highest distinction on 2 April 2025
  • Research and teaching fellow at the chair of Prof. Matthias Oesch (January 2018 - April 2021 and January - December 2024)
  • Lecturer in international trade law at the University of Zurich (HS18/FS19 and HS23/FS24)
  • Guest PhD researcher at Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law Hamburg (May - July 2022) and at McGill Faculty of Law (August 2021 - March 2022)
  • Schindler Junior Scholar at the Institute for International Law and Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Zurich (August 2020 - July 2021)
  • Admission to the Zurich Bar, Court of Appeal of the Canton of Zurich (October 2019)
  • Trainee lawyer at a business law firm in Zurich (October 2016 - November 2017)
  • Studies in law at the Universities of Zurich (MLaw 2016) and Leiden as well as at King's College London (LL.M. in Transnational Law 2016)
  • Studies in economics at the University of Zurich (BA Economics 2011)

Publications

  • 'Global Liquidity: Reflections on Constitutionalisation Processes in Global Finance' in Ioannis Kampourakis and Michal Stambulski (eds), 'Constitutionalism and Political Economy: New Trajectories and Opportunities for Socio-Legal Scholarship', Oñati International Series in Law and Society, Hart Publishing, book chapter, forthcoming
  • 'Central Bank Swaps - The Transnational Legal Infrastructure of Global Liquidity Ordering' in Marie Petersmann and Dimitri van den Meerssche (eds), 'Underworls - Sites and Struggles of Global Dis/Ordering', LSE International Studies Series, Cambridge University Press, book chapter, forthcoming
  • 'The Common Market with Switzerland' in Robert Schütze and Takis Tridimas (eds), 'Oxford Principles of European Union Law: Volume II', Oxford University Press, book chapter, forthcoming (together with Matthias Oesch)
  • 'The Jurisprudence of WTO Dispute Resolution (2024)', Swiss Review of International and European Law (SRIEL) (2025), forthcoming
  • 'International Lending of Last Resort' in Thomas Cottier and Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer (eds), Elgar Encyclopedia of International Economic Law, extended edition, forthcoming
  • 'Special Drawing Rights' in Thomas Cottier and Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer (eds), Elgar Encyclopedia of International Economic Law, extended edition, forthcoming
  • 'The Jurisprudence of WTO Dispute Resolution (2023)', 34 Swiss Review of International and European Law (SRIEL) (2024), 433-457 (together with Johannes Rohrmann)
  • The Credit Suisse Crisis and International Law II: We Live in a Swap Line World, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law (1 May 2023)
  • 'The Jurisprudence of WTO Dispute Resolution (2022)', 33 Swiss Review of International and European Law (SRIEL) (2023), 299-333 (together with Laia Roxane Guardiola)
  • 'The Jurisprudence of WTO Dispute Resolution (2021)', 32 Swiss Reivew of International and European Law (SRIEL) (2022), 489-530 (together with Rika Koch)
  • Current Developments in Central Bank Digital Currencies and the Battle for Monetary Sovereignty, The McGill Business Law Meter Blog (7 December 2021)
  • Private Digital Currencies and the Promise of Global Financial Inclusion, The McGill Business Law Meter Blog (17 November 2021)
  • 'The Jurisprudence of WTO Dispute Resolution (2020)', 31 Swiss Review of International and European Law (SRIEL) (2021), 283-312 (together with Matthias Oesch and Veena Manikulam)
  • 'EU-Schweiz' in Horst Günter Krenzler et al. (eds), 'EU-Aussenwirtschafts- und Zollrecht: Kommentar', C.H. Beck 2018 (together with Matthias Oesch)

Presentations and Talks

  • 'Swaps - The Transnational Legal Infrastructure of Global Liquidity Ordering', international conference onUnderworlds - Sites and Struggles of Global Dis/Ordering, LSE Law School and QMUL School of Law, May 2024
  • 'The Transnational Legal Infrastructure of the Global Monetary System Post-GFC', summer academy onLaw and Political Economy in Europe, Erasmus University Rotterdam, June 2023, and 2023 JIEL Junior Faculty Forum, online, September 2023
  • 'The International Legal Infrastructure of Central Bank Swap Lines', international conference on Central Banks & International Law, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, June 2023
  • Discussion of the Credit Suisse crisis from a transnational and constitutional legal perspective, together with Prof. Andreas Kley, meeting of the 'Europagruppe' at the Institute for International Law and Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Zurich, March 2023
  • 'The Global Monetary System Post-GFC: The Global FX Market and its Public Liquidity Backstop as an Interplay Between a Global "Constitution" and Non-legal International Agreements', Swiss Young Talent Forum Public Law, University of Basel, March 2023
  • 'Unequal Access to Global Liquidity: The International Legal Infrastructure of Swap(-like) Arrangements Between Central Banks', international conference on 'Contested Equality: International and Comparative Legal Perspectives', University of Zurich, October 2022
  • 'A Pledging Global Liquidity Order? The International Legal Infrastructure of Currency Swap Arrangements Between Central Banks', international conference onCentral Banking and its Discontents: The Role of Monetary Policy in Contemporary Capitalism,  Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Berlin, July 2022
  • Presentation and discussion of the 'PSPP'-decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court of 5 May 2020 at the Institute for International Law and Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Zurich, October 2020