| Christine Kaufmann is a Professor of International, Constitutional and
Administrative law at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. From 1991-2000,
she first served in the legal department and then as a Director of Human
Resources at the Swiss Central Bank. During that time she was a member of the
EFTA expert groups on financial services and free movement of capital and
services and represented the Swiss Central Bank in the negotiations on the
European Economic Area. After a stay as a research scholar at the University of
Michigan’s Law School and before joining the law faculty in Zurich, she was
Director of Legal Research at the World Trade Institute in Berne. She is a
member of the Bar Association Examination Panel of the Canton of Zurich. Her
main research interests include the linkages between international trade law and
human rights, the relationship between the international trade and international
financial systems and the implications of globalization on constitutional law.
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