Researchers

Erica Harper is a practitioner-academic specializing in international criminal law, human rights law and post-conflict governance.

Dr Christophe Golay's expertise relates to economic, social and cultural rights, the right to food and the rights of peasants.

Dr Andrew conducts research on the nexus of human rights law with the development of neurotechnologies, emerging issues stemming from new technologies’ use in the military domain, and the deployment of dual-use technologies by law enforcement.

Eugénie Duss is a Research Fellow at the Geneva Academy

His research interests include international humanitarian law, international cultural heritage law, human rights law, international responsibility and litigation, and the theory of sovereignty.

Florence Foster is an accomplished researcher and social justice advocate with a wealth of expertise in diplomacy, human rights, arms control, and conflict resolution.

Her areas of expertise include international humanitarian law, international criminal law, international human rights law, and the challenges raised by new technologies – in particular artificial intelligence – in these fields of international law.

Her current research areas include the regulation of trade in torture equipment and equipment capable of being misused for torture, the detention of asylum seekers and migrants, and state diplomacy.

Dr Fulya Batur conducts research on the rights of peasants, more particularly on the rights to seeds.

His areas of expertise encompass human rights law, medical law, philosophy of law, and bioethics.

Robin van der Lugt is an Associate Researcher at the Geneva Academy focusing on international law and authoritarianism, and human rights and prevention.

Her expertise and publications relate to intellectual property regimes in agriculture, agrobiodiversity, legal activism and the rights of peasants, in particular the right to seeds.

Dr Alice Jill Edwards is the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. She is also an adjunct faculty member at Oxford University’s Master of Studies in International Human Rights Law.