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Samantha Besson, born on the 30th of March 1973 in Be irut, is a Law Professor specialized in Public International Law and European Law,. She hold the Chair "Droit international des institutions" (International Law of Institutions) at the Collège de France (Paris) and is a Part-Time Professor at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).

Biography
Originally from the Vaud canton in Switzerland, she studied at the universities of Fribourg (Bachelor and Master's degree in 1996 and doctorate in 1999), Oxford (Magister Juris in 1998) and Berne (habilitation in Legal Theory and in Swiss, Comparative, European and International Constitutional Law in 2004). She then worked for Oxford University (2001-2003) and the University of Geneva (2001-2005), before becoming a Professor at the University of Fribourg (since 2004). She has also been a Visiting Profesor at the Universities of Zurich (2007-2010), Lausanne (2010), Lisbon (2010-2019), Duke (2009), Harvard (2014) and Pennsylvania (2019). From 2011 to 2012, she was a Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Furthermore, she has taught in various capacities at The Hague Academy of International Law (2009-2013; 2013; 2020). She is currently a member of the Scientific Council of the Nantes Institute for Advanced Study Foundation, a member of the Board of the Swiss Academy of Human and Social Sciences, and was the very first delegate for Human Rights at the Swiss Academies of Sciences. She is also the co-chair of the ILA Study Group on the International Law of Regional Institutions.

In 2019, she was named at the Collège de France (only woman out of twelve nominations ) as holder of the Chair "Droit international des institutions". Her inaugural lecture took place on the 3rd of December 2020, and was titled "Reconstruire l'ordre institutionnel international" (Reconstructing the International Institutional Order),.

Samantha Besson's research interests lie at the intersection of general international law and legal philosophy, and in particular: international and European human rights law; international and European law on sources and responsibility; comparative domestic, regional and European Union external relations law; international and European citizenship law and democratic theory.

Publications
''Disclaimer: This bibliography contains Samantha Besson's main works. A comprehensive bibliography is kept up to date on the Collège de France's website , as well as many articles available online.''