Publications

This page provides an overview of my publications, which are listed by category.
(* = peer-reviewed)

Some of these publications are available on Academia.edu, ResearchGate, and/or my institutional website.

Monographs and longer publications
  • Influencing Lawmakers: A Comparative Constitutional Analysis of Legislative Lobbying, habilitation thesis, submitted
  • *Domestic Courts and the Interpretation of International Law – Methods and Reasoning Based on the Swiss Example, PhD thesis, Leiden/Boston: Brill/Nijhoff 2019 (401 pages), open access, <brill.com/view/title/55800?rskey=Sj6X2s&result=4>
  • La pratique suisse relative à la détermination du droit international coutumier, Legal Opinion for the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs at the Request of the International Law Commission, Freiburger Schriften zum Europarecht = Cahiers fribourgeois de droit européen, Fribourg: European Law Institute 2016, 189 pages, <www.unifr.ch/ius/euroinstitut_de/forschung/publikationen/freiburger_schriften> (with S. Besson)  

Journal articles
  • *‘The Participation of Civil Society in European Union Environmental Law-Making Processes: A Critical Assessment of the European Commission’s Consultations in Connection with the European Climate Law’, (2023) 14:2 European Journal of Risk Regulation 235-252 (with A. Boussat)
  • ‘Who Gets Heard? The Participation of Academic Experts in Hearings Held by the Swiss Parliament’s Specialist Committees’, Swiss Young Academy (Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences), (2023) 18:3 Swiss Academies Communications (53 pages) (with Reja Wyss, Silvia Maier, Servan L. Grüninger, and Darius Farman; translation by the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences)
  • ‘Qui est entendu ? Communauté scientifique et auditions des commissions thématiques du Parlement’, Swiss Young Academy (Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences), (2023) 18:3 Swiss Academies Communications (57 pages) (with Reja Wyss, Silvia Maier, Servan L. Grüninger, and Darius Farman)
  • ‘Wer wird gehört? Wissenschafter:innen in den Anhörungen der parlamentarischen Sachbereichskommissionen’, Swiss Young Academy (Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences), (2023) 18:3 Swiss Academies Communications (58 pages) (with Reja Wyss, Silvia Maier, Servan L. Grüninger, and Darius Farman)
  • *‘Zoom-Fatigue? Methoden zur Aktivierung von Studierenden der Rechtswissenschaften im digitalen Unterricht’, (2022) 9:4 Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Rechtswissenschaft 329-341
  • *‘Language Bias in International Legal Scholarship: Symptoms, Causes, Risks, and Remedies’, (2022) 33:3 European Journal of International Law 821-850
  • *‘Zur unscharfen Grenze zwischen Wissenschaftsfreiheit und Meinungsäusserungsfreiheit: Eine verfassungsrechtliche Analyse universitärer Social-Media-Richtlinien’, (2021) 2:3 Recht und Zugang 194-229 (upon invitation)
  • *‘Transparency at the Expense of Equality and Integrity: Present and Future Directions of Lobby Regulation in the European Parliament’, (2021) 6:1 European Papers 239-268 (reprinted in: S. Hummelbrunner/L. Kirchmair/B. Pirker/A.-C. Prickartz/I. Staudinger (eds), Shaping the Future of Europe, Vienna: Jan Sramek Verlag 2022, 15-51)
  • *‘Passports for Sale: How (Un)Meritocratic Are Citizenship by Investment Programmes?’, (2020) 22:3 European Journal of Migration and Law 309-337
  • *‘Regulatory Uncertainty Over Emergency Powers in Switzerland’, Comparing Nations’ Responses to COVID-19 (Series), The Regulatory Review, 29 May 2020, <www.theregreview.org/2020/05/29/ammann-regulatory-uncertainty-over-emergency-powers-switzerland>
  • *‘L’interprétation du droit international par les tribunaux nationaux : méthodes et raisonnement à la lumière de l’exemple suisse’, (2020) 5:1 ex ante 27-31 (dissertation summary)
  • ‘Nationale Gerichte und die Auslegung des Völkerrechts: Methoden und Argumentation am Beispiel der Schweiz’, (2020) 30:1 Swiss Review of International and European Law 119-121 (dissertation summary)
  • *‘Agricultural Exceptionalism and Industrial Animal Food Production: Exploring the Human Rights Nexus’, (2019) 15:2 Journal of Food Law and Policy 92-151 (with C. Blattner)
  • *‘How Do and Should Domestic Courts Interpret International Law? Insights from the Jurisprudence of H.L.A. Hart and Duncan Kennedy’, (2019) 10:3-4 Transnational Legal Theory 385-420
  • *‘The Thoughtful Judge: A Timely Reminder under Populism’, (2019) Ancilla Juris 96-100
  • ‘Drittplattformverbote im selektiven Vertrieb – Das Coty-Urteil und dessen Rezeption aus Sicht der Schweiz’, (2019) 5 sic! (Swiss Review of Intellectual Property Law, Information Law, and Competition Law) 293-303 (with M. Sturny)
  • *‘International Law in Domestic Courts Through an Empirical Lens: The Swiss Federal Tribunal’s Practice of International Law in Figures’, (2018) 4 Swiss Review of International and European Law 489-516
  • ‘Iris von Rotens “Frauen im Laufgitter” sechzig Jahre später: has been oder stets aktuell? Buchbesprechung: Iris von Roten, Frauen im Laufgitter – Offene Worte zur Stellung der Frau, 6. Aufl., eFeF-Verlag, Wettingen, 2014 (Originalausgabe 1958), (2018) 5 Swiss Law Review = Zeitschrift für Schweizerisches Recht 579-598
  • ‘When Are Judges Influenced by Public Opinion? Switzerland and the US Compared’, (2017) Jean Monnet Working Paper Series, <jeanmonnetprogram.org/papers/paper-serie/2017>
  • ‘Verhältnis von nationalem und internationalem Recht in den USA – eine Analyse aus der Perspektive des Völkerrechts und des IPR’, (2017) 1 Aktuelle juristische Praxis 90-98 (with N. Meier)
  • *‘International Legal Interpretation as a Game: A Compelling Analogy?’, (2016) 5 Harvard International Law Journal (Online Edition), <www.harvardilj.org/2016/05/international-legal-interpretation-as-a-game-a-compelling-analogy>  

Contributions to edited volumes
  • *‘Residency by Investment and Citizenship by Investment: Just the Tip of the Iceberg? The Pervasiveness of Meritocratic Considerations in Immigration and Citizenship Law’, in D. Kochenov/M. Sumption/M. van den Brink (eds), The Politics of (Il)Legality of Citizenship and Residence by Investment, Oxford: Hart Publishing, in press (upon invitation)
  • *‘The Influence of Agricultural Production Interest Groups on Legislative Processes’, in A. Peters/K. Stilt/S. Stucki (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Global Animal Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025, in press (upon invitation)
  • ‘Gute Rechtsetzung: Ein Kommentar unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Lobbyings privater Akteure’, Tagungsband ZfR, 2024, in press
  • *‘Switzerland: The (Missing) Role of Parliament in Times of Crisis’, in M. C. Kettemann/K. Lachmayer (eds), Pandemocracy in Europe: Power, Parliaments and People in Times of Covid-19, Oxford: Hart Publishing 2021, 179-200 (with F. Uhlmann)
  • ‘Transparente Politikfinanzierung in der direkten Demokratie: Überflüssig oder überfällig? Zur Tragweite von Art. 34 Abs. 2 BV in der Transparenzdebatte’, in N. Braun Binder/L. P. Feld/P. M. Huber/K. Poier/F. Wittreck (eds), Jahrbuch für direkte Demokratie 2020, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2021, 88-113 (upon invitation)
  • ‘Sollten die höchsten Richterinnen und Richter im Losverfahren bestimmt werden? Überlegungen zur richterlichen Unabhängigkeit unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der schweizerischen «Justiz-Initiative»’, in J. Urbanik/A. Bodnar (eds), Περιμένοντας τους Bαρβάρους. Law in the Days of Constitutional Crisis, Studies Offered to Mirosław Wyrzykowski, Munich/Baden: C.H. Beck/Nomos 2021, 7-22 (upon invitation)
  • *‘Das freie Mandat (Art. 38 Abs. 1 S. 2 GG) – ein verfassungsrechtliches Fossil? Von der unzureichenden Berücksichtigung des parlamentarischen Lobbyismus in der zeitgenössischen deutschen Verfassungslehre’, in Zugang zu Recht, 61. Junge Tagung Öffentliches Recht, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2021, 371-392
  • *‘Food Security and Symbolic Legislation in Switzerland: A False Sense of Security?’, in H. Schübel/I. Wallimann-Helmer (eds), Justice and Food Security in a Changing Climate, Proceedings of the 2021 EurSafe Conference, Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers 2021, 349-355 (with C. Blattner)
  • ‘Le lobbying en temps de pandémie : quelques réflexions sur une pratique en pleine mutation’, in C. Ewert/L. Heyne (eds), One Year With COVID-19, Zurich: DemocracyNet 2021, 75-80
  • ‘Rechtswissenschaft und Politik: Fliessende Grenzen?’, in C. Mertens/T. Köhler (eds), Jahrbuch für politische Beratung 2019/2020, Vienna: mezzogiorno 2020, 139-157 (upon invitation)
  • ‘Lobbying et corruption : des liaisons dangereuses ?’, in B. Perrin/P. Meylan/G. Fiolka/M. A. Niggli/C. Riedo (eds), Droit pénal et criminologie – Mélanges en l’honneur de Nicolas Queloz, Basel: Helbing & Lichtenhahn 2020, 229-242 (upon invitation)
  • *‘The European Court of Human Rights and Swiss Politics: How Does the Swiss Judge Fit In?’, in M. Wind (ed), International Courts and Domestic Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018, 262-295
  • ‘The Court of Justice of the European Union and the Interpretation of International Legal Norms: To Be or Not to Be a “Domestic” Court?’, in S. Besson/N. Levrat (eds), The European Union and International Law / L’Union européenne et le droit international, Geneva, Zurich and Basel: Schulthess 2015, 153-178
  • ‘L’interprétation des accords bilatéraux Suisse-UE – Une lecture de droit international’, in A. Epiney/S. Diezig (eds), Annuaire suisse de droit européen 2013/2014 – Schweizerisches Jahrbuch für Europarecht 2013/2014, Zurich: Schulthess 2014, 331-358 (with S. Besson)
  • ‘La non-discrimination, principe charnière d’interprétation: l’exemple de l’art. 2 ALCP’, in S. Besson/A. Ziegler (eds), Egalité et non-discrimination en droit international et européen – Equality and Non-Discrimination in International and European Law, Geneva, Zurich and Basel: Schulthess 2014, 55-75

Book reviews
  • *‘Book Review: Nathalie Clarenc Bicudo, Florian Couveinhes Matsumoto, Raphaëlle Nollez-Goldbach and Anne-Thida Norodom (eds), Un droit international français? Pratiques françaises du droit international, Paris: Pedone 2022’, (2023) 22:3 International Journal of Constitutional Law, in press
  • *‘Book Review: Yuji Iwasawa, Domestic Application of International Law: Focusing on Direct Applicability, Leiden/Boston: Brill 2022’, (2023) 60 Canadian Yearbook of International Law = Annuaire canadien de droit international 454-460 (upon invitation)
  • ‘Book Review: Jörg Paul Müller, “Dialog als Lebensnerv der Demokratie – Vom Athen des Sokrates zur Politik der Gegenwart” (Basel: Schwabe Verlag 2021’, (2021) 5 Swiss Law Review = Zeitschrift für Schweizerisches Recht 607-611 (upon invitation)
  • *‘Review of Jon Elster, Roberto Gargarella, Vatsal Naresh & Bjorn Erik Rasch (eds), “Constituent Assemblies” (Cambridge 2018)’, I·CONnect (Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law), 12 February 2019, <www.iconnectblog.com/2019/02/book-review-odile-ammann-on-constituent-assemblies>

Case reports
  • *Case Report, ILDC 3193 (CH 2020), Decision of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, no. 1C_37/2019, of 5 May 2020 (KlimaSeniorinnen case), partly published in BGE 146 I 145, in A. Nollkaemper/A. Reinisch (eds), Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2023 (on whether, given that global warming was expected to reach 1.5°C approximately by the year 2040, the failure of the Swiss authorities to take measures to achieve reductions of emissions sufficiently affected the appellants’ right to life and right to privacy and family life to warrant legal protection under Article 25a of the Federal Act on Administrative Procedure), <opil.ouplaw.com/home/oril> (with C. Marti)
  • *Case Report, ILDC 2968 (2018), Decision of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, no. 1C_443/2017, of 28 August 2018 (on whether a domestic anti-begging law violates art. 7, 8, 9, 10, and 14 ECHR), in A. Nollkaemper/A. Reinisch (eds), Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2019, <opil.ouplaw.com/home/oril>
  • *Case Report, ILDC 2961 (2018), Decision of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, no. 4A_398/2017, of 16 October 2018 (on the Russian-Ukrainian investment treaty and the ‘moving treaty frontiers rule’), in A. Nollkaemper/A. Reinisch (eds), Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2019, <opil.ouplaw.com/home/oril>
  • *Case Report, ILDC 2835 (2015), Decision of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, no. 2C_121/2015, of 11 December 2015, partly published in BGE 142 I 49 (on the prohibition for female pupils to wear headscarves in a public school), in A. Nollkaemper/A. Reinisch (eds), Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018, <opil.ouplaw.com/home/oril>
  • *Case Report, ILDC 1933 (2012), Decision of the Swiss Federal Criminal Court, no. BB.2011.140, of 25 July 2012, partly published in TPF 2012 97 (on whether a former foreign Defence Minister enjoys jurisdictional immunity), in A. Nollkaemper/A. Reinisch (eds), Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018, <opil.ouplaw.com/home/oril>
  • *Case report, ILDC 2564 (2014), Decision of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, Second Social Law Chamber, no. 9C_810/2013, of 15 September 2014, partly published as BGE 140 I 305 (on paternity leave or parental leave under Swiss and international law), in A. Nollkaemper/A. Reinisch (eds), Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018, <opil.ouplaw.com/home/oril>
  • *Case report, ILDC 2372 (CH 2012), Decision of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, Second Public Chamber, no. 9C_540/2011, of 15 March 2012, partly published as BGE 138 I 205 (on the rights of members of the Roma community in terms of social security payments), in A. Nollkaemper/A. Reinisch (eds), Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016, <opil.ouplaw.com/home/oril>  

Conference reports
  • ‘“Zugang zu Recht”: Tagungsbericht zur 61. Jungen Tagung Öffentliches Recht in Münster’, (2021) 2 Rechtswissenschaft 264-271 (with F. Bottega, C. Rausch, and M. Wilhelm)
  • ‘Back to Beginnings: Revisiting the Preambles of European Treaties’ (introduction to the special issue published in relation to the Fourth Young European Law Scholars Conference, 2021), (2021) 31 Swiss Review of International and European Law 687-690 (with C. Neier, M. Beier, R. Walther, and K. Achermann)

Edited books and special issues
  • Co-editor of the Online Commentary of the Swiss Constitution (with S. Schlegel; contributions published on a rolling basis, following several rounds of editorial review and a double-blind external peer review process)
  • Co-editor of Verantwortung und Recht, Conference proceedings of the 62nd Young Public Law Scholars’ Conference (62. Junge Tagung Öffentliches Recht), Baden-Baden: Nomos 2022 (18 contributions) (with J. Bukovac, F. Bottega, I. Lehner, J. Meier, C. Rausch, R. Piskóty, M. Rehmann, L. Schneider, R. Weder, and M. Wilhelm)
  • Co-editor of a special issue in relation to the conference ‘Back to Beginnings: Revisiting the Preambles of European Treaties’, (2021) 31 Swiss Review of International and European Law (4 scholarly articles) (with C. Neier, M. Beier, R. Walther, and K. Achermann)  

Legal opinions
  • Legal Opinion on Selected Administrative Law Questions, commissioned by the Government of a Swiss Canton, 2023, in French (109 pages) (with S. Weerts)
  • Legal Opinion on the Preliminary Draft of the New Constitution of the Canton of Valais (Switzerland), commissioned by the Constituent Assembly of the Canton of Valais, 2022, published in French (19 pages) and translated into German (19 pages, with an annex of 41 pages) (with P. Mahon)
  • Legal Opinion on the Swiss Practice Pertaining to Customary International Law, commissioned by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs at the Request of the International Law Commission, 2016, published in French (189 pages) (with S. Besson)  

Outreach, policy papers, newspaper articles, and blog contributions
  • ‘Nur vom Volk abhängig? Warum die Regulierung des parlamentarischen Lobbyismus nicht vom Tisch ist’, Unser Recht, 8 July 2024, <unser-recht.ch/nur-vom-volk-abhaengig>
  • ‘Nur vom Volk abhängig? Warum es in der Schweiz wohl eine Volksinitiative braucht, um den parlamentarischen Lobbyismus zu regulieren’, Verfassungsblog, 5 June 2024, <verfassungsblog.de/nur-vom-volk-abhangig>
  • ‘La Jeune Académie est indispensable’ / ‘Die Junge Akademie ist unerlässlich’, Portrait in the 2022 annual report of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences (French version: <akademien-schweiz.ch/fr/publications/rapport-annuel>, p. 34 f.; German version: <akademien-schweiz.ch/de/publications/jahresberichte>, p. 34 f.)
  • *‘Function Follows Form: Die Digitalisierung juristischer Kommentare als Labor für den Funktionswandel des Rechts’, Verfassungsblog, 14 June 2023, <verfassungsblog.de/function-follows-form> (with S. Schlegel)
  • ‘Civil Society Participation in EU Climate Law-Making: A Critical Evaluation of the European Commission’s Consultations in Connection with the European Climate Law’, REALaw (blog of the Review of European Administrative Law), 10 March 2023, <bit.ly/3laHVCV> (with A. Boussat)
  • ‘Höher, schneller, weiter? Ein paar Gedanken zur Zukunft der JTÖR’, JuWiss, 29 June 2022, <www.juwiss.de/32-2022> (with K. Chatziathanasiou)
  • ‘Qui dirige la Suisse ? Une perspective de droit constitutionnel’, décodage (blog of the Swiss Academy of the Humanities and Social Sciences), 27 June 2022, <bit.ly/3nm04Ly> (reprinted in: (2022) 2 Bulletin SAGW (Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften) 15-17)
  • ‘Richterinnen und Richter sollten keine Parteienvertreter mehr sein’, Unser Recht, 11 November 2021, <unser-recht.ch/2021/11/11/odile-ammann-und-markus-schaerli-richterinnen-und-richter-sollten-keine-parteienvertreter-mehr-sein> (with M. Schärli)
  • Interview on the differences between common law and civil law systems, ‘Zwei Rechtssysteme im Vergleich’, Fokus Rechtsguide (Tagesanzeiger), 4 November 2021, p. 12, <fokus.swiss/business/recht/zwei-rechtssysteme-im-vergleich>
  • ‘3 Preisgekrönte im Interview’ (interview on the article ‘Passports for Sale: How (Un)Meritocratic Are Citizenship by Investment Programmes’, in connection with the Silver Prize for Young Researchers 2021 of the Swiss Academy of the Humanities and Social Sciences), (2021) 2 Bulletin SAGW (Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften) 17
  • ‘Wissenschaftsfreiheit als Pflicht zur Ergebnisoffenheit: Verfassungsrechtliche Politikberatung in der Schweiz’, Verfassungsblog, Symposium on ‘Constitutional Expertise in the Political Arena’ (‘Verfassungsrechtliche Expertise im politischen Raum’), 10 April 2021, <verfassungsblog.de/wissenschaftsfreiheit-als-pflicht-zur-ergebnisoffenheit> (upon invitation)
  • ‘Switzerland and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Look Back and a Look Into the Future’, Verfassungsblog, 2021 COVID-19 Symposium, 1 March 2021, <verfassungsblog.de/switzerland-and-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-look-back-and-a-look-into-the-future> (with F. Uhlmann)
  • Answer to questions about lobbying, published as part of the article by Blandine Guignier and Alexandre Wälti, ‘Pourquoi les PME doivent s’intéresser au lobbying’, PME Magazine, February 2021, 44-47
  • ‘Der Stiftungsrat begrüsst Odile Ammann als neue Alumni-Vertretung’, 16 April 2020, <www.studienstiftung.ch/blog/2020/04/16/der-stiftungsrat-begruesst-odile-ammann-als-neue-alumni-vertretung>
  • ‘Die Schweiz fällt in die schwächste Kategorie’, Interview on recent amendments to Swiss lobbying law, Lobbywatch (Swiss NGO working on the regulation of lobbying), 19 December 2019, <lobbywatch.ch/de/artikel/schweiz-faellt-schwaechste-kategorie> (upon invitation)
  • ‘Profile: Marlese von Broembsen’, ATLAS Women, 10 December 2019, <www.atlaswomen.org/profiles/2019/12/10/marlese-von-broembsen>
  • ‘Wie wichtig sind Lobbyisten?’, (2019) 108 Vögele Kulturbulletin 35-37 (Culture Magazine of the Vögele Museum), <www.voegelekultur.ch/bulletins/bulletin-108> (upon invitation)
  • ‘Réglementation du lobbying : un chantier encore à peine entamé’, Le Temps, 15 October 2019, <www.letemps.ch/opinions/reglementation-lobbying-un-chantier-peine-entame>
  • *‘On the Interpretability of Customary International Law: A Response to Nina Mileva and Marina Fortuna’, Opinio Juris, 7 October 2019, <opiniojuris.org/2019/10/07/on-the-interpretability-of-customary-international-law-a-response-to-nina-mileva-and-marina-fortuna>
  • ‘Soixante ans plus tard, les mots d’Iris von Roten résonnent encore’, Le Temps, 24 December 2018, <www.letemps.ch/opinions/soixante-ans-plus-tard-mots-diris-von-roten-resonnent>
  • *‘Die Umsetzung der schweizerischen Volksinitiative “gegen Masseinwanderung”: Ein Vergleich mit dem Brexit’, Völkerrechtsblog, 17 February 2017 (upon invitation)
  • *‘Dualism Is Overrated – As Is Monism: A Response to Julian Ku’, Opinio Juris, 15 November 2016, <opiniojuris.org/2016/11/15/dualism-is-overrated-as-is-monism-a-response-to-julian-ku/> (with B. Pirker)
  • ‘L’UDC n’abandonnera pas son combat contre le droit international’, Le Temps, 23 June 2016  

Translations
  • Samantha Besson, Zum Wiederaufbau der internationalen Institutionenordnung, Antrittsvorlesung am Collège de France, Basel: Helbing Lichtenhahn 2022 (translation from French into German, 48 pages) (with D. Wohlwend)  

Collaboration
  • Collaboration for S. Besson/A. Ziegler, Traités internationaux (et droit des relations extérieures de la Suisse), 3rd edn, Bern: Stämpfli 2016, 1746 pages
  • Collaboration for N. Queloz/M. A. Niggli/C. Riedo (eds), Droit pénal et diversités culturelles : Mélanges en l’honneur de José Hurtado Pozo, Zurich: Stämpfli 2012, 588 pages  

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