Gloria Gaggioli Appointed SNF Professor at the University of Geneva

Professor Gloria Gaggioli during an IHL class of our LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Professor Gloria Gaggioli during an IHL class of our LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

15 March 2018

We are pleased to announce that Gloria Gaggioli has been appointed Swiss National Fund (SNF) Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva (Department of public international law and international organizations).

As such, she will lead a four-year research project on ‘Preventing and Combating Terrorism and Violent Extremism: Towards an Empirico-Legal Approach’.

Gloria Gaggioli, an alumna of our LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, is currently in charge of the IHL class in our LLM. She also teaches a course on preventing and combating terrorism, the subject of her research, in our Executive Master in International Law in Armed Conflict.

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