Dr Marion Panizzon is an educator on the Professional Diploma in International Trade Policy on the topic of WTO Core Principles. Marion is a legal scholar researching economic migration and services trade. She is a resident senior research fellow of the World Trade Institute (WTI) at the University of Bern and an independent legal consultant on matters of EU trade, migration and asylum law. Marion holds a Doctorate in Law (Dr. iur., 2004) and an LL.M. from Duke Law School (2001). While at the WTI, Marion completed her PhD on good faith in WTO dispute settlement and spent time at Oxford University’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS). She has led several research teams on multi-year research projects covering trade and migration. Marion acts as the elected deputy chair for the advisory board of the Center for Global Migration Studies (CeMig) at Göttingen University, as a member of the board of the Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) Migration and Education at the University of Bern and is a research affiliate with the Refugee Law Initiative. She teaches international and Swiss migration law in the continued education programs of the University of Bern and the Community College Bern. Marion recently published “Migration Narratives at the UN and in West Africa”, Geopolitics (2023, with Luzia Jurt); “How Courts Politicize Bilateral Migration Diplomacy” 23(2) Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2022); “Multi-Level Governance of Migration in Times of Crisis”, 45(8) Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2018 with Micheline van Riemsdijk).
