Dr Stephanie Switzer
Reader
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 multiple meanings of ‘delinking’ and ‘decoupling’ to describe multilateral access and benefit-sharing
- Rourke Michelle, Eccleston-Turner Mark, Humphries Fran, Switzer Stephanie, Hampton Abbie-Rose, Lawson Charles
- Transnational Environmental Law (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s2047102526100296
- What Can International Disaster Law Learn from Global Health Responses? : Workshop Report and Briefing Document
- O'Donnell Therese, Switzer Stephanie, Sadowski Mirosław M, Mitchell Lynsey, Lines Katie, Cubie Dug, Devaney James, Brown Rebecca, Harrington John, Wenton Anthony, Perrie Yvonne, Robertson Chris, MacDougall Audrey, Hill Conor, Shucksmith-Wesley Christy, Strobeyko Adam, Breau Susan, Carolei Domenico, Kaur Kirndeep, Sindico Francesco, Grez Hidalgo Pablo
- (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00095041
- Negotiating Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) : recommendations and priority issues
- Switzer Stephanie, Strobeyko Adam, Eccleston-Turner Mark, Aubry Sylvain, Rourke Michelle
- (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/9r3g7_v1
- The Emperor's New Clothes : the amendments to the World Health Organization's International Health Regulations
- Switzer Stephanie, Eccleston-Turner Mark
- Journal of Global Health Law Vol 2, pp. 26-54 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.4337/jghl.2025.01.02
- Fate Unknown : The Pandemic Agreement's Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing
- Eccleston-Turner Mark, Rourke Michelle, Switzer Stephanie
- (2025)
- Navigating the Global Landscape of Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) on Digital Sequence Information (DSI) Regulation : Dealing with Scope Confusion through Mutual Supportiveness
- Switzer Stephanie, Rourke Michelle, Eccleston-Turner Mark
- (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.13456.52488
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
- Interview for Geneva Graduate Institute Publication - PABS 101: FOUNDATIONS OF PATHOGEN ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING UNDER THE PANDEMIC AGREEMENT
- Recipient
- 9/2025
- ‘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
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