Faculty, researchers and students of the Law School of the University of Geneva focus their research and publications in the field of international law on issues of the law produced by, applicable to and enforced by many of the world's international organizations based in Geneva. This covers areas such as:

• International Organizations, United Nations Law, the League of Nations, WTO law, European Law
• International Dispute Settlement, International Environmental Law, International Economic Law, in particular aspects such as: Integration, Environment, Labour, Human Rights, WTO, NGOs, Fragmentation, Coherence
• International Humanitarian Law, its relationship with International Human Rights Law, its application to and by non-State actors such as armed groups and private military companies
• International and European Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, International and European Social Security Law, International Intellectual Property Law, International Contract Law and Conflict of Laws

Major Research Projects funded by outside sources are:

• Mutual Assistance between States and International Organizations; International Law and Freshwater Resources (both directed by Laurence Boisson de Chazournes)
• Private Companies in International Humanitarian Law: Challenges and Perspectives (directed by Marco Sassòli)
• The International Protection of Prisoners of War: Application and Developments of the provisions of Geneva Convention III (directed by Robert Kolb)
• The Promotion of the Cross-border Exchange of Intellectual Assets between China, Japan and Switzerland - The Case of Music and Trade Secrets; International and comparative law on transboundary transfer of intangible assets; The Law of Software Contracts - a Transatlantic Perspective (all directed by Jacques de Werra)
• What Future for the Bilateral Way between Switzerland and the European Union? Agenda Definition and Consequences of a Possible Framework Agreement (directed by Christine Kaddous)

Recent publications of note by faculty members:

Laurence Boisson de Chazournes:

• International Trade Law, United Nations Law, and Collective Security Issues (with T. Boutruche), in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW (D. Bethlehem, D. McRae, R. Neufeld and I. Van Damme, eds., Oxford Univ. Press, 2009) pp. 695-722.
• Precaution in International Law: Reflection on Its Composite Nature, in LAW OF THE SEA, ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES? LIBER AMICORUM JUDGE THOMAS A. MENSAH (T. M. Ndiaye and R. Wolfrum, eds., Nijhoff, 2007) pp. 21-34.
• The Bretton Woods Institutions and Human Rights: Converging Tendencies, in ECONOMIC GLOBALISATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS (W. Benedek, K. De Feyter and F. Marrella, eds., Oxford Univ. Press, 2007) pp. 210-242.

Pierre-Yves Greber:

• SECURITE SOCIALE : ASPECTS DE DROIT NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL ET EUROPEEN (with B. Kahil-Wolff) (Dossiers de droit européen, N° 14, Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Bruylant, and L.G.D.J, 2006) 389 pp. (Social Security: National, International and European Law).
• Le droit international de la sécurité sociale, in SCHWEIZERISCHES BUNDESVERWALTUNGSRECHT, BAND XIV: SOZIALE SICHERHEIT (Ulrich Meyer, ed. (2d edn), Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 2007) pp. 83-147 (International Social Security Law).
• Le droit international de la sécurité sociale relatif à la réadaptation des personnes vivant avec un handicap (Cahiers genevois et romands de sécurité sociale, 40-2008) pp. 71- 94 (International Social Security Law regarding the re-adaptation of persons living with disabilities).

Maya Hertig:

• L'exécution des arrêts de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme à la lumière de l'arrêt Verein gegen Tierfabriken Schweiz (VGT) c. Suisse du 4 octobre 2007, PRATIQUE JURIDIQUE ACTUELLE no. 6, 2008, p. 651-664 (with Xavier-Baptiste Ruedin) (The execution of judgments rendered by the European Court of Human Rights in the Light of the VGT v. Switzerland judgment of 4 October 2007).
• La nouvelle loi sur l'asile à l'épreuve des droits de l'homme, in JUSLETTER 28 April 2008. (The New Asylum Law Under Human Rights Scrutiny).
• Der Schutz von Grundrechten und individuellen Freiheiten in der Europäischen Union aus schweizerischer Sicht , I REVUE DE DROIT SUISSE 2007, pp. 487-527 (The Protection of Fundamental Rights and Individual Liberties in the European Union from a Swiss Perspective).

Christine Kaddous:

• Role and position of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy under the Lisbon Treaty, in THE LISBON TREATY EU CONSTITUTIONALISM WITHOUT A CONSTITUTIONAL TREATY? (Stefan Griller and Jacques Zillers, eds., Springer Verlag, 2008) pp. 205-221.
• Effects of International Agreements in the EU Legal Order, in EU FOREIGN RELATIONS LAW: CONSTITUTIONAL FUNDAMENTALS (Marise Cremona and Bruno de Witte eds., Hart Publishing, 2008) pp. 291-312.
• The Relations between the EU and Switzerland, in LAW AND PRACTICE OF EU EXTERNAL RELATIONS (Alan Dashwood and Marc Maresceau eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008) pp. 227-269.

Robert Kolb:

• AN INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF ARMED CONFLICTS (Hart, 2008) (with Richard Hyde).
• INTRODUCTION AU DROIT DES NATIONS UNIES (Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 2008) (Introduction to the Law of the United Nations).
• THE COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS - A COMMENTARY, IN REGARD OF UNITED NATIONS LAW (forthcoming in 2011).

Gabrielle Marceau:

• Institutional Challenges to Enhance Policy Coordination -How WTO Rules Could Be Utilized to Meet Climate Objectives?, in PROCEEDINGS OF THE WORLD TRADE FORUM 2007, INTERNATIONAL TRADE ON A WARMING GLOBE: THE ROLE OF THE WTO IN THE CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE, 2008 (with Mireille Cossy).
• A Guide to the World Trade Organization Law of Domestic Regulation of Goods and Trade and labour: Rematching an old divorced couple? (2 chapters), in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW (D. Bethlehem, D. McRae, R. Neufeld, and I. van Damme eds, Oxford Univ. Press, 2009 (forthcoming)). (Guide co-authored with Joel Trachtman).
• Fragmentation in International law: The Relationship between WTO Law and General International Law - a Few Comments from a WTO Perspective or the Search to Understand Non-WTO Dispute, FINNISH YEARBOOK ON INTERNATIONAL LAW 2006, p. 31 (forthcoming).

Robert Roth:

• Article VII (extradition) , in COMMENTARY ON THE GENOCIDE CONVENTION (P. Gaeta ed. Oxford Univ. Press, 2009 (forthcoming)).
• Ne bis in idem transnational: vers de nouveaux paradigmes? in QUEL CONTROLE JUDICIAIRE POUR L'ESPACE PENAL EUROPEEN? (Which judicial control for the European penal area?) (S. Braum and A. Weyembergh, eds., Editions ULB, 2009) (Transnational ne bis in idem: towards new paradigms?).
• Politiques pénales et évaluation: des défis renouvelés, in THE EVALUATION OF EUROPEAN CRIMINAL LAW: THE EXAMPLE OF THE FRAMEWORK DECISION ON COMBATING TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN BEINGS, (V. Santamaria and A. Weyembergh, eds. Editions ULB, 2009) (Criminal policies and evaluation: new challenges).

Marco Sassòli:

• HOW DOES LAW PROTECT IN WAR? (with A. Bouvier) 2d ed. (Geneva, ICRC, 2006) 2473 pp., also published in French, Chinese, Russian and Serbian.
• Terrorism and War, 4 JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE (2006), pp. 959-981.
• The relationship between international humanitarian law and human rights law where it matters: admissible killing and internment of fighters in non-international armed conflicts, 871 INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THE RED CROSS (2008) (with Laura M. Olson).

Jacques de Werra:

• Fighting Against Biopiracy: Moving From the Obligation to Disclose to Effective Benefit Sharing, 42 VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW (forthcoming January 2009).