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 holds a PhD in law magna cum laude (2004) and obtained her habilitation to teach and to supervise PhD students in the fields of international trade and international and EU migration law from the University of Bern in 2016. She has a bilingual French/German Master’s in law from the University of Fribourg with a specialization in EU law. Marion started out as 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 was elected 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 to complete her PhD from the Swiss Institute of Comparative and International Law, Lausanne (2003-04). Since, Marion led several interdisciplinary research teams within two Swiss National Science Foundation-funded multi-year programs at the universities of Berne nccr-trade regulation (2004-2014), respectively, Neuchatel nccr-on the move (2015-2018), in addition to her SNSF individual project grant for her habilitation research. 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 PhD students in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Singapore and Australia. Pro bono, Marion has taught B2-C1 level online English for adult refugee learners of Azraq Camp, Jordan and in Niamey, Niger for INZONE, University of Geneva (2019-2025). Amongst her consultancies, were projects of the World Bank, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, the Migration Policy Institute Washington DC, the EU Asylum Agency and EU DG Trade. As an author, she has recently published “How Courts Politicize Bilateral Migration Diplomacy”, Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2022); “Migration Narrative at the UN and in West Africa”, Geopolitics (2023, with Luzia Jurt) and “Multi-Level Governance of Migration in Times of Crisis”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2018, with Micheline van Riemsdijk), an entry in the Edward Elgar Concise Encyclopedia on Migration and Asylum Law (2025 with Amanda Bisong), and a legal commentary on Article 100 of the Swiss Foreigners and Integration Act in the German Commentary on the Swiss Foreigners and Integration Act (2025), edited by Martina Caroni and Daniel Turnheer.