Stephanie Switzer

Dr Stephanie Switzer has expertise in the fields of International Trade Law and Global Health Law. She works and practices in these fields and together with colleagues, has collaborated with international organisations such as the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Food and Agriculture Organisation on policy relevant research and consultancies. She was also recently invited to participate in a closed-door workshop organised by the World Health Organization on access and benefit sharing of pathogens. Stephanie’s work is at the intersection of the law and policy of the World Trade Organisation, health law and regulatory governance. She is a founding member of the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance and a Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde Law School in Glasgow, Scotland. She has held a large number of leadership roles while at Strathclyde and was Associate Dean Postgraduate (Taught) for the HaSS Faculty from 2015 until 2017. She is currently the Director of the LLM in International Commercial Law and has advised other UK Universities on their postgraduate programmes. She also co-organised the XVI instalment of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law in 2018 and supervises doctoral projects in her fields of expertise. She was previously a Member of the Law Society of Scotland's Education and Training subcommittee and played a leading role in the development of Strathclyde's English Law programmes. 

Global Health Law, Law of the World Trade Organisation 

LLB (Hons), Queen's University Belfast

PhD, University College Dublin

PG Cert LTHE

Member of the Higher Education Academy

Regime interactions; special and differential treatment; Law of the World Trade Organisation; Global health Law