Stefanie Schacherer is an international economic law scholar specialising in international trade and investment law at the intersection with sustainable development and climate change governance. She holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Geneva and the University of Vienna (co-tutelle) and completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore and the World Trade Institute, University of Bern, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her monograph, Sustainable Development in EU Foreign Investment Law (Brill Nijhoff), offers an account of the legal effects of sustainable development within the EU's international trade and investment law-making. Beyond academia, she has advised governments and delivered capacity-building programmes across Africa, including Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, and the African Union and has worked with UNCTAD in Geneva. She is an Associate at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), an Advisor to the UN ESCAP Research and Training Network on FDI, and an elected member of the Academic Forum on ISDS under UNCITRAL.
Qualifications
- Doctor iuris, Universities of Geneva and Vienna (co-tutelle)
- LL.M., King’s College London
- Master of Laws, University of Geneva
- Bachelor of Laws, University of Geneva
Courses Taught in SMU
- Ethics and Social Responsibility
- International Investment Law and Arbitration
- Sustainability, Multinational Corporations and International Law
Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation
- Sustainable Development in International Economic Law
- International Trade and Investment Law
- International Adjudication
- European External Relations Law
- Climate Change and Energy Transition
- Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility