Schindler Junior Scholars

The Institute for International and Comparative Constitutional Law has launched a program for the promotion of excellent doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in the fields of international, European and comparative constitutional law. The core of the program consists of two workshops per semester that are devoted to the discussion of the Junior Scholars’ research projects as well as academic publications. The workshops will be directed by the respective Dietrich Schindler Lecturer and a member of the Institute. The program lasts one year and is meant to foster the academic exchange with internationally renowned experts in the field.

For the academic year 2025/26 the application deadline is over. This year’s Junior Scholars are Robin Beglinger, Cécile Christen, Soheil Ghasemi and Giulia Raimondo. Congratulations!

Applications for the academic year 2026/27 will be possible after 1 May 2026. All relevant information concerning your application will be posted here.

We are delighted that Prof. David Kennedy (Harvard Law School) and Prof. Hilary Charlesworth (Melbourne Law School and International Court of Justice) have agreed to be Schindler Lecturers for the academic year 2025/26.

Robin Beglinger

Studies at the University of Zurich and University of Fribourg; dissertation project with the working title "One Country, One Vote? Voting Rights in International Organizations”; Research grant Doc.CH of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNFS)

Cécile Christen

Studies at the University of Lucerne and University of St. Gallen; attorney at law; dissertation project with the working title “Die Ausnahmenkonzeption im Sanktionsrecht der Vereinten Nationen und der Schweiz”; Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Lucerne

Soheil Ghasemi

Studies at the Geneva Graduate Institute and University of Tehran; dissertation project on “Of Revolution and Reaction: The Decolonization-Era Third-Worldism and the Politics of Knowledge Production in International Law”; Research and Teaching Fellow at the Geneva Graduate Institute

Giulia Raimondo

Studies at the Geneva Graduate Institute, McGill University, Montréal, and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan; completed dissertation project on “At the Frontiers of International Responsibility: Frontex, the European Integrated Border Management and International Law"; Lecturer and Senior Researcher at the University of Fribourg

-Farzad Fallah

-Dominik Kawa

-Janine Prantl

-Ryan Yussuf

-Marisa Beier

-Nula Frei

-Laia Guardiola

-Lizaveta Tarasevich

-Julia Meier

-Monika Plozza

-Daniel Quiroga-Villamarín

-Nils Reimann

- Ana Luísa Bernardino

- Aliénor Nina Burghartz

- Anna Forgacs

- Leo Tiberghien

- Katja Achermann

- Odile Ammann

- Damian Cueni

- Florian Weber