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.
Please send your application for the academic year 2025/26 by 31 July 2025 to: ivr-jsp@ius.uzh.ch (including a pdf-file with a motivation letter, a CV and university transcripts).
The Junior Scholars Program is also open to doctoral and post-doctoral researchers from other Swiss universities.
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.
Schindler Junior Scholars 2024-2025

We are delighted that Prof. Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki) and Prof. Eyal Benvenisti (Tel Aviv University) have agreed to be Schindler Lecturers for the academic year 2024/25.
Farzad Fallah
Studies at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID) and Allameh Tabatabaie University in Teheran; dissertation project on "Islamic Imperialism: History, Administration, Law"; Research and Teaching Assistant at the Geneva Graduate Institute
Dominik Kawa
Studies at the University of Zurich, Jagiellonen University in Krakow, King's College London; attorney at law; dissertation project with the working title “Rechtspolitische Sphärentrennung am Beispiel der Schweizerischen Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit”; Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Zurich
Janine Prantl
Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Columbia Law School in New York, University of Vienna; habilitation project with the working title “Demokratie und Nachhaltigkeit bei der Bewältigung globaler Herausforderungen”; Senior Assistant at the University of Fribourg
Ryan Yussuf
Studies at the University of Zurich, Maastricht University and Hasselt University (Belgium); dissertation project with the working title “Between Non-Refoulement and Territorial Asylum: Legal and Normative Foundations of the Principle of Non-Rejection at the Frontier"; Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Zurich
Impressions from the Workshops

Schindler Junior Scholars 2023/2024
-Anna Laura Elmer
-Pranav Ganesan
-Carl Jauslin
-Ana Srovin Coralli
Schindler Junior Scholars 2022/2023
-Marisa Beier
-Nula Frei
-Laia Guardiola
-Lizaveta Tarasevich
Schindler Junior Scholars 2021-2022
-Julia Meier
-Monika Plozza
-Daniel Quiroga-Villamarín
-Nils Reimann
Schindler Junior Scholars 2020-2021
- Ana Luísa Bernardino
- Aliénor Nina Burghartz
- Anna Forgacs
- Leo Tiberghien
Schindler Junior Scholars 2019-2020
- Katja Achermann
- Odile Ammann
- Damian Cueni
- Florian Weber