Dr Stephanie Switzer
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Law
Personal statement
Dr Stephanie Switzer is an academic at the Strathclyde Law School and has expertise in public international law, with a particular interest in global health law. She has collaborated with a number of organisations such as the Scottish Government, the European Commission, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Food and Agriculture Organisation on policy relevant research and consultancies.
Stephanie is a co-investigator in the UKRI funded One Ocean Hub and was also a founding member of the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance.
Stephanie has held a large number of leadership roles while at Strathclyde and is currently the Director of Education within the Strathclyde Law School.
Stephanie is interested in curriculum development and was previously a Member of the Law Society of Scotland's Education and Training subcommittee.
Prize And Awards
Qualifications
LLB (Hons), Queen's University Belfast
PhD, University College Dublin
PG Cert LTHE
Member of the Higher Education Academy
Publications
- The World Trade Organization and Its Contribution to the Evolution of the Law of the Sea
- Lennan Mitchell, Switzer Stephanie
- The Presence of International Organizations in the Evolution of the International Law of the Sea Thirty Years since the Entry into Force of UNCLOS (2025) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004716315_007
- Plastics and (the right to) health
- Hamley Graham, Switzer Stephanie
- Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Plastics (2024) (2024)
- Valuing Public Sector Data in Scotland and Europe : Data Governance for Economic, Environmental and Social Development
- Daly Angela, Miyake Esperanza, Porter Andy, Berti Suman Anna, Nic Daéid Niamh, Switzer Stephanie, Tetley-Brown Lucille, Valero Julián
- Science, Policy and Law Series Science, Policy and Law Series, No. 3 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.20933/100001329
- Comments on Article 12: Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) of the REVISED Draft of the negotiating text of the World Health Organization's Pandemic Agreement, 13th March 2024
- Switzer Stephanie, Eccleston-Turner Mark, Rourke Michelle, Hampton Abbie-Rose
- (2024)
- Written Submission for World Health Organization INB Interactive Dialogue on "Article 12 (Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing System)", 3 September 2024
- Switzer Stephanie, Rourke Michelle, Eccleston-Turner Mark, Hampton Abbie-Rose
- (2024)
- A technical and legal analysis of triggers for monetary benefit-sharing from digital sequence information on genetic resources : A Report for the European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Weissgold Lily, Switzer Stephanie, Eccleston-Turner Mark, Scholz Amber
- (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.2760/936096
Teaching
Global Health Law, Law of the World Trade Organisation
Research Interests
Regime interactions; special and differential treatment; Law of the World Trade Organisation; Global health Law
Professional Activities
- ‘The WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies as an Instrument of International Fisheries Law’
- Speaker
- 14/9/2023
- Pandemic Treaty - Knowledge Exchange Workshop
- Participant
- 28/4/2023
- Equity in Global Health Law
- Participant
- 27/4/2023
- ROUNDTABLE ON THE RELEVANCE OF THE WTO AGREEMENT ON FISHERIES SUBSIDIES FOR THE LEGAL PROTECTION OF SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES
- Participant
- 31/3/2023
- The WTO Fisheries Subsidies Agreement - Invited Talk
- Speaker
- 2023
- Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference session on Path dependency and the failure of International environmental law
- Speaker
- 2021
Projects
- DSI Inter-Instrument Scope Paper
- Switzer, Stephanie (Principal Investigator)
- 15-Jan-2024 - 15-Jan-2025
- Consultant (with Dalberg) on monitoring and evaluation to the World Trade Organization's FishFund
- Switzer, Stephanie (Principal Investigator)
- 02-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2024
- Consultancy for the EC Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity on legal and technical triggers for monetary benefit-sharing from digital sequence information on genetic resources:
- Switzer, Stephanie (Researcher)
- 05-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2024
- SUII - Valuing public sector data in Scotland and Europe: data governance for economic, environmental and social development.
- Miyake, Esperanza (Principal Investigator) Daly, Angela (Principal Investigator) Annie, Sorbie (Co-investigator) Switzer, Stephanie (Co-investigator) Tetley-Brown, Lucille (Co-investigator) Nic Daeid, Niamh (Co-investigator) Anna, Berti Suman (Co-investigator) Valero , Julián (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023
- RSE - Equity, the Pandemic Treaty and Pathogen Sharing
- Switzer, Stephanie (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2023
- Lessons Learned from International Funding Mechanism
- Switzer, Stephanie (Principal Investigator) Morgera, Elisa (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 15-Jan-2023