Charlotte Sieber-Gasser

Biography

Charlotte Sieber-Gasser is PostDoc Fellow and Lecturer at the department of Public Law, University of Lucerne, Switzerland. Previously, she worked at the World Trade Institute (WTI), University of Bern, Switzerland, and was visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for Trade and Economic Integration at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. She teaches, among others, law and policy of trade agreements, EU law, Swiss constitutional law, and law and sustainable development.

Charlotte Sieber-Gasser studied law in Fribourg and Bern, Switzerland, and Development Studies in Manchester, UK. In her PhD (Developing Countries and Preferential Services Trade, available at Cambridge University Press) she analysed the level of compliance of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) in services with WTO law in general and the legal scope for flexibility in PTAs in services between developing countries in particular. Her current research focuses on democratic legitimation of trade policy in Switzerland and Europe.