I am an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. I hold a PhD in law from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School.

My main areas of research are comparative public law, constitutional and administrative law, public international law, EU law, and legal theory. My research draws upon other disciplines, especially political theory, political science, and history. 

My habilitation thesis, which was accepted by the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich in 2024, analyzed the constitutional framework that applies to legislative lobbying in Europe and in the United States. My PhD thesis, which I completed in 2017, and which was supervised by Prof. Samantha Besson (University of Fribourg, now also Collège de France), provided a normative evaluation of the interpretative methods that domestic courts use in cases with an international law dimension. 

I studied law at the bilingual University of Fribourg (2007-2013), at the Center of Transnational Legal Studies in London (2011-2012), and at Harvard Law School (2015-2016, Fulbright scholar). I was a doctoral researcher at the University of Fribourg (2013-2017) and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich (2018-2021), before joining the University of Lausanne as an Associate Professor in 2021. 

I have been a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School (2016, 2022-2023), the University of Oxford (2016-2017), the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (2017), the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po Paris (2021-2022), and the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington DC (2023-2024). 

Starting in Spring 2025, I will be a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

My native languages are French and German. On this website, you will find a more detailed CV, list of publications, list of conferences, and information about selected larger projects I have conducted.

Please don't hesitate to get in touch!

Email: odile.ammann [at] unil.ch

Institutional address: 
Université de Lausanne
Faculté de droit, des sciences criminelles et d'administration publique (FDCA)
Quartier UNIL-Chamberonne, Bâtiment Internef
CH-1015 Lausanne

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