Christine Kaddous

Christine Kaddous is Professor at the University of Geneva since 2002 and was visiting Professor at the Montesquieu University in Bordeaux, Nice Sophia Antipolis and Paris II (Panthéon Assas). She is Director of the Centre d’études juridiques européennes (CEJE, Center for European Legal Studies) and holds a Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, « EU Constitutional and Substantive Law ».

Christine Kaddous pursued her legal studies in Switzerland (BA and PhD at the University of Neuchâtel), the United Kingdom (MA in Law, LL.M. (Cantab) at the University of Cambridge) and Belgium (MA in European Studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles). She was admitted to the Bar of Neuchâtel and was a practicing lawyer for a number of years in the field of Commercial Law, first in Neuchâtel, then in Geneva.

She pursues her teaching and research activities in EU Law and International Law, Dispute Settlement, External Relations of the EU with an emphasis on the EU-WTO relations, and on the EU-Switzerland Bilateral Agreements.

Christine Kaddous is President of the Swiss Society of International LAw (Société Suisse de droit international, SSDI-SVIR) since 2008,  Vice-President of the Association suisse pour le droit européen (ASDE) and a member of the Executive Committee de l’Association suisse d’étude de l’intégration européenne (ECSA-Suisse) as well as of the Steering Committee of the Centre européen de la culture. She is also member of many national and international associations or societies related to her areas of expertise such as la Société française de droit international (SFDI), the International Law Association (ILA), the European Society of International Law (ESIL), the Commission pour l’Etude des Communautés européennes (CEDECE) and the Swiss Association Arbitration (ASA).

Since 2001, she is editor of the Collection ‘Dossiers de droit européen’ (DDE), published by Helbing/Bruylant/LGDJ (Basel/Geneva/Brussels/Paris) and member of a number of scientific review committees, namely of the Swiss Review of International and European Law (SRIEL, Revue suisse de droit international et européen - RSDIE), the Journal du droit européen (JDE) and the Austrian Journal of Public and International Law (Zeitschrift für öffentliches Recht).

She is currently taking part in research projects in the fields of EU-Switzerland Bilateral Relations, the free movement of persons and services, as well as in the field of consumer protection and multilingualism.

Areas of expertise

EU Law, International Law, European and International Dispute Settlement, International Economic Law (including Investment Law), European Human Rights Law, International Agreements concluded by the EU, EU-WTO Relations, EU-Switzerland Relations, Law and Politics in the Areas of Free Movement of Goods, Persons, Services and Capital, Air and Land Transport, Public Procurement, Technical Obstacles to trade, Environment and Health Protection.

List of publications