Evelyne SCHMID is a professor of international law at Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. She was previously based at the Universität Basel, Bangor University and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID).
She also acted as the project coordinator for the International Criminal Court's Legal Tools Project at TRIAL in Geneva. She is the author of Taking Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Seriously in International Criminal Law (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, 2015; Christiane-Rajewsky award 2016).
From 2020 to 2022, she was Vice-President of the European Society of International Law (ESIL). She is one of the Swiss experts for the Moscow Mechanism of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (since 2023).
She led the interdisciplinary project Bypassing the Nation State? How Swiss Cantonal Parliaments Deal with International Obligations (2019-2024; supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation).
