Marion Panizzon read law at the University of Fribourg, obtained an LLM at Duke Law School and earned a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Berne in 2004, followed by her postdoctoral habilitation in 2014. Before joining the WTI in 2005, Dr. Panizzon was a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center and at the Institute for Comparative Law, University of Lausanne.
She served as Assistant Professor of Law from 2009-2013. Her primary field of interest is the law of migration. In parallel with her NCCR Trade Work Package leadership, Dr. Panizzon conducted a study sponsored by the Swiss Science Foundation on the theoretical law foundations and transformative processes in international law-making on migration. Her teaching experience spans WTO trade law, international migration law and legal foundations. She has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, the Institut du Développement Durable and the Migration Policy Institute.