Schindler Junior Scholars

The Institute for International and Comparative Constitutional Law has launched a program for the promotion of excellent doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in the fields of international, European and comparative constitutional law. The core of the program consists of two workshops per semester that are devoted to the discussion of the Junior Scholars’ research projects as well as academic publications. The workshops will be directed by the respective Dietrich Schindler Lecturer and a member of the Institute. The program lasts one year and is meant to foster the academic exchange with internationally renowned experts in the field.

For the academic year 2024/25 the application deadline is over. This year’s Junior Scholars are Farzad Fallah, Dominik Kawa, Janine Prantl and Ryan Yussuf. Congratulations!

Applications for the academic year 2025/26 will be possible after 1 May 2025. All relevant information concerning your application will be posted here.

The Junior Scholars Program is also open to doctoral and post-doctoral researchers from other Swiss universities.

We are delighted that Prof. Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki) and Prof. Eyal Benvenisti (University of Cambridge) have agreed to be Schindler Lecturers for the academic year 2024/25.

Farzad Fallah

Studies at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID) and Allameh Tabatabaie University in Teheran; dissertation project on "Islamic Imperialism: History, Administration, Law"; Research and Teaching Assistant at the Geneva Graduate Institute

Dominik Kawa

Studies at the University of Zurich, Jagiellonen University in Krakow, King's College London; attorney at law; dissertation project with the working title “Rechtspolitische Sphärentrennung am Beispiel der Schweizerischen Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit”; Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Zurich

Janine Prantl

Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Columbia Law School in New York, University of Vienna; habilitation project with the working title “Demokratie und Nachhaltigkeit bei der Bewältigung globaler Herausforderungen”; Senior Assistant at the University of Fribourg

Ryan Yussuf

Studies at the University of Zurich, Maastricht University and Hasselt University (Belgium); dissertation project with the working title “Between Non-Refoulement and Territorial Asylum: Legal and Normative Foundations of the Principle of Non-Rejection at the Frontier"; Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Zurich

-Marisa Beier

-Nula Frei

-Laia Guardiola

-Lizaveta Tarasevich

-Julia Meier

-Monika Plozza

-Daniel Quiroga-Villamarín

-Nils Reimann

- Ana Luísa Bernardino

- Aliénor Nina Burghartz

- Anna Forgacs

- Leo Tiberghien

- Katja Achermann

- Odile Ammann

- Damian Cueni

- Florian Weber