PD. Dr. iur. Marion Panizzon

Marion Panizzon, Ph.D. (U. Bern) LL.M. (Duke Law School) is resident fellow of the World Trade Institute and lecturer in the Department of Educational Sciences, University of Bern. 

Marion started out as Professor Thomas Cottier’s research and teaching assistant for the Institute of European and International Economic Law, University of Bern (1998-2000), prior to moving to North Carolina for an LL.M. at Duke Law School (2001). During that time, Marion acted as the foreign student editor of the Duke Journal of International and Comparative Law. She then took up the position of a research and editorial assistant to Professor John H. Jackson and the Journal of International Economic Law at Georgetown University Law Center. 

Upon returning to Switzerland, Marion was awarded a van Calker Stipend (Swiss Institute of Comparative and International Law, Lausanne 2003-04) to finalize her PhD as a monography published 2006 with Bloomsbury Publishing on ‘Good Faith in WTO Dispute Settlement’. 

Since, Marion led several interdisciplinary research teams within two Swiss National Science Foundation-funded multi-year programs nccr-trade regulation (2004-2014), respectively, nccr-on the move (2015-2018) on the trade-migration nexus.

Today, she teaches regularly at the University of Bern, the University of Applied Sciences Northeastern Switzerland, and the Institute of International Trade, Dublin and has supervised a number of PhD students in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Singapore and Australia. 

Since 2026 Marion is vice-president of the board for the City of Bern Office for Integration, Language and Employment (ISA Bern) providing education services and legal aid to immigrants.