Teaching

Since 2025 (fall)	International Environmental Law (lecture), Faculty of Law, Criminal Justice and Public Administration, University of Lausanne. Focus on treaty negotiations, the legal relevance of COP decisions, compliance, and judicial as well as quasi-judicial dispute resolution. Weekly lecture with roughly 30 students in the Masters’ program. Assessment: In-course assessment and oral exam.
Since 2025 (fall)	Administrative Law (lecture), Faculty of Law, Criminal Justice and Public Administration, University of Lausanne. Focus on the administrative principles and foundations, as well as administrative organization. Weekly lecture with roughly 200 students in the Bachelors’ program. Assessment: Written exam.
Since 2025 (spring)	Environmental Law (lecture), Faculty of Law, Criminal Justice and Public Administration, University of Lausanne. Weekly lecture with roughly 30 students in the Masters’ program. Focus on Swiss environmental law, federalist dimensions, planteray boundaries, system transition, and strategic litigation. 4 hrs/week. Assessment: In-response paper, oral presentation, oral exam.
2023	Basic Rights, Constitutional Law II (lecture), Institute for Public Law, University of Bern (standing in for Prof. Judith Wyttenbach). Weekly lecture with roughly 300 students in the Bachelors’ program. Focus on advanced basic rights, such as freedom of opinion and expression, communication rights, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, basic social rights, equality of rights, discrimination, and basic procedural rights, 2 hrs/week. Assessment: Preparation for Bachelors’ exam.
2022	Climate Sciences in Conversation with Climate Law (EngiL seminar), Institute for Public Law, University of Bern (together with Prof. Martin Grosjean and Prof. Christoph Raible). Weekly to bi-weekly seminar with 20 students in Master’s and Bachelors’ programmes, 2 hrs/week. Assessment: Bachelor and Master theses, presentations.
2022	New Developments in Climate Law “Code Red for Humanity” (seminar), Institute for Public Law, University of Bern (together with Prof. Judith Wyttenbach). Block seminar with 14 students in the Masters’ and Bachelors’ program. Assessment: Bachelor and Master theses, presentations.
2021	Animal Rights in Ethics, Politics, and Law, Institute for Public Law, University of Bern. 22 students on average with bi-weekly meetings. Method: seminar-style with interactive and collaborative elements. Assessment: Bachelor and Master theses, presentations.
2021	Introduction to Public Law for students of the WISO Faculty (lecture), Institute for Public Law, University of Bern (together with Prof. Andreas Lienhard, standing in for Prof. Axel Tschentscher). Focus on the law of state organization, the general doctrines of fundamental rights and basic rights. Weekly lecture with roughly 350 students in the Bachelors’ program, 2 hrs./week. Assessment: Examination (conducted by Prof. Axel Tschentscher).
2020 -2024	Case-based tutorials for Bachelor students in Law, Institute for Public Law, University of Bern, Switzerland. Average of 50-60 students per session. Method: interactive and collaborative.
2020 -2024	Case-based tutorials for first-year students in Law, Institute for Public Law, University of Bern, Switzerland. Average of 90-100 students per session. Method: interactive and collaborative.
2017 – 2022	Legal Aspects of Global Ageing (seminar), Institute for European Global Studies, Basel, Switzerland (together with Dr. Janine Dumont-Rosas, LL.M.). Average of 15 students, block seminar. Method: classic seminar-style; use of AgeMan to facilitate understandings of shared vulnerability. Assessment: Bachelor and Master theses, oral presentations.
2018	Animals and Society (class), Queen’s University, Department of Philosophy, Kingston ON, Spring 2018. 79 students, 3hrs/week. Method: North-American teaching style (Socratic method), with a focus on inclusivity and common development of knowledge; use of e-teaching tools in class. Assessment: In-response papers, final exam.
Misc.	For guest lectures, please see below.

Guest Lectures

CAS Energierecht 2024, FHNW, Zprich, by Dr. Reto Müller, Nov. 9, 2024, guest lecture on Klima- und CO₂-Gesetzgebung
Ethik für Juristinnen und Juristen, University of Bern, Bern, by Dr. Fiona Leu, Nov. 9, 2023, guest lecture on Tierrechte: Zwischen ethischer Forderung und rechtlicher Machbarkeit
Graduate Seminar Climate Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, by Prof. Christoph Raible, Oct. 18, 2023, guest lecture on Human Rights and Climate Change
Graduate Seminar Climate Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, by Prof. Christoph Raible, Oct. 18, 2023, guest lecture on International Climate Change Law
Environmental Law and Regulations, Hochschule Luzern, Lucern, by Dr. Sian Affolter, Sept. 28, 2023, guest lecture on Swiss Environmental Law: Climate Protection
Graduate School Climate Sciences, University of Bern, 21^st Young Researchers Meeting, June 8-9, 2023, guest lecture on Climate Change Litigation and Its Impact on Law and Policy: The Case of the “KlimaSeniorinnen” in Strasbourg
University of Basel, Institute for Bioethics, Mar. 29, 2022, Seminar «Ethics in Geo and Environmental Sciences» by Prof. Bernice Elger and Dr. Isabelle Wienand, guest lecture on Climate Change in the Law
HSE University Moscow, Moscow, Russia, Mar. 16, 2022, Lecture of Animal Law by Prof. Daria V. Chernyaeva, guest lecture on Global Animal Law: A Critical Evaluation of the What, Why, and How
Faculty of Law, University of Bern, 30, 2020, lecture on animal law by Prof. P.V. Kunz, guest lecture on Grundlagen der Tierethik & Politik
Cambridge University, Faculty of Law, Cambridge UK, Mar. 4, 2020, seminar on Animal Normativity
Johns Hopkins University, “Animals in Research: Law, Policy, and Humane Sciences,” Baltimore MD, Jan. 27, 2020, guest lecture on Toward Non-Invasive, Respectful Research with Animal Participants
University of Victoria, “Animals, Culture and the Law,” Victoria BC, Nov. 13, 2019, guest lecture on Globalization & Animal Law: Relationship, Antagonisms, and Future Paths
International University College of Turin, “Food, Law and Finance Curriculum,” Turin, Italy, Jun. 13, 2018, guest lecture on Global Animal Law and Multiculturalism
Queen’s University, Department of Sociology, Class “Social Psychology” SOCY 273, Kingston ON, Jan. 31, 2018, guest lecture on Morality and Altruism in Animal Ethics
International University College of Turin, “Food, Law and Finance Curriculum,” Turin, Italy, Jun. 28, 2017, guest lecture on Introduction to Global Animal Law
Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, Center for Animal Law Studies, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland OR, Oct. 27, 2016, guest lecture on Global Animal Law
M. Class, Center for Animal Law Studies, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland OR, Oct. 24, 2016, guest lecture on The Extraterritorial Protection of Animals
Institute for Biomedical Ethics (IBMB), “Current Topics in Animal Ethics,” University of Basel, Basel, Sept. 22, 2014, guest lecture on 3R for Farmed Animals