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 is also a founding member of the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance. She also co-organised the XVI instalment of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law in 2018 and supervises doctoral projects in her fields of expertise.
Stephanie has held a large number of leadership roles while at Strathclyde and was Associate Dean Postgraduate (Taught) for the HaSS Faculty from 2015 until 2017 and until recently, was Director of postgraduate taught programmes at the Law School. She has also advised other UK Universities on their postgraduate offerings. She is currently the Director of Student Welfare 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. She also played a leading role in the development of Strathclyde's English Law programmes.
Prize And Awards
Qualifications
LLB (Hons), Queen's University Belfast
PhD, University College Dublin
PG Cert LTHE
Member of the Higher Education Academy
Publications
- A little fairer is not good enough : why ABS will NOT ensure equity
- Rourke Michelle, Hampton Abbie-Rose, Eccleston-Turner Mark, Switzer Stephanie
- (2023)
- Policy brief : The implementation of the WTO fisheries subsidies agreement should support the human rights of small-scale fishers
- Morgera Elisa, Switzer Stephanie, Lennan Mitchell, Webster Elaine, Bansal Tulika
- (2023)
- 'Equity' in the pandemic treaty : the false hope of 'access and benefit-sharing'
- Hampton Abbie-Rose, Eccleston-Turner Mark, Rourke Michelle, Switzer Stephanie
- International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2023)
- Equity in Global Health Law - Policy Brief
- McKenzie Kate, Lennan Mitchell, Eccleston-Turner Mark, Rourke Michelle, Hampton Abbie-Rose, Tsioumani Elsa, Ainslie Jonathan, Titi Catharine, Porter Gerard, Upton Harry, Williams Rebecca, Sekalala Sharifah, Wenton Anthony, Kolawole Oke Emmanuel, Wenham Clare, Switzer Stephanie
- (2023)
- Pathogens and Equity in the Pandemic Treaty - Key Takeaways for Negotiators
- Burci Gian Luca, Rourke Michelle, Eccleston-Turner Mark, Morgera Elisa, Harrington John, Switzer Stephanie, Upton Harry
- (2023)
- Embedding the Right to Health within International Negotiations on Plastics
- Hamley Graham, Switzer Stephanie, Morgera Elisa
- (2023)
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
- Pandemic Treaty workshop
- Participant
- 2021
Projects
- 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
- GCRF One Ocean Hub
- Morgera, Elisa (Principal Investigator) Baum, Thomas (Co-investigator) Cathcart, Alison (Co-investigator) Clark, Bryan (Co-investigator) Da Lomba, Sylvie (Co-investigator) Heath, Mike (Co-investigator) Revie, Matthew (Co-investigator) Sindico, Francesco (Co-investigator) Switzer, Stephanie (Co-investigator) Vermeylen, Saskia (Co-investigator) Webster, Elaine (Co-investigator) Laverick, Jack (Researcher)
- 13-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2024
- Nagoya Protocol Article 4(4)
- Switzer, Stephanie (Co-investigator) Morgera, Elisa (Principal Investigator) Tsioumani, Elsa (Co-investigator)
- Study on behalf of Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
- 01-Jan-2017 - 15-Jan-2018
- Legislative Study on the Right to Water for Food and Agriculture
- Switzer, Stephanie (Researcher) Morgera, Elisa (Principal Investigator) Vermeylen, Saskia (Co-investigator) Webster, Elaine (Co-investigator) Sindico, Francesco (Co-investigator)
- Legislative Study on the Right to Water for Food and Agriculture - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- 10-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2018