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Boisson de Chazournes Laurence, University of Geneva Print
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes has gained a wide-ranging reputation in academic circles for her contribution to international law, in such fields as the law of international organizations, international economic law and international environmental law, while at the same time being recognized for her practical work as Senior Counsel to the World Bank and as advisor to many international organizations. In the field of dispute settlement she has served as chairperson of WTO arbitration panels on pre-shipment inspections and has pleaded before the ICJ and other dispute settlement procedures. She is a member of the WTO indicative list of governmental and non-governmental panelists and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Laurence Boisson de Chazournes has been professor in, and chair of the department of, international law at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva since 1999. She is a visiting professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and at the University of Aix-Marseille III, and has been invited as guest lecturer in numerous universities in Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa and Asia.
She holds a PhD in international law from the Graduate Institute (summa cum laude), the Bar exam (France), a JD and a master degree in private law from the University of Lyon III, a BA in sociology from the University of Lyon II and a Diploma in Political Science from the Institute of Political Sciences (Lyon).
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