Personal statement
Dr Stephanie Switzer is an academic at the Strathclyde Law School and has expertise in the fields of International Trade Law and Global Health Law. She works and practices in these fields and together with colleagues, 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.
Prizes and awards
- 2018 Outstanding Paper award - Journal of International Trade Law and Policy
- Recipient
- 2018
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Qualifications
LLB (Hons), Queen's University Belfast
PhD, University College Dublin
PG Cert LTHE
Member of the Higher Education Academy
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
- Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference session on Path dependency and the failure of International environmental law
- Speaker
- 2021
- Pandemic Treaty workshop
- Participant
- 2021
- An Overview of the Trade Bill
- Speaker
- 31/8/2018
- IUCN Academy of Environmental Law 16th Annual Colloquium
- Organiser
- 7/2018
- External Advisor - Validation event - LLM in International Commercial Law, Aston Law School (Event)
- Advisor
- 1/7/2018
- World Health Organisation, in collaboration with the UN Convention on Biodiversity, closed workshop on Facilitating access and benefit sharing (ABS) for pathogens to support public health.
- Participant
- 6/2018
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Projects
- 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 - 12-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
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