Sports and Human Rights

Véronique Boillet is an associate professor at the Law School of the University of Lausanne. She was previously a lawyer at the Lausanne’s Bar (2011-2013) - practical experience of legal proceedings and network among lawyers and judges – and has just been elected to the Board of the Swiss Institution for Human Rights (2023-2027). As a scholar, she has in-depth knowledge of the European and Swiss constitutional system, which she has been teaching since 2017 and which she has analyzed in several contributions published in leading European and Swiss law journals. 

Sophie Weerts is an associate professor of public law at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, University of Lausanne. She holds a doctorate in law from the University of Louvain and has a background in law and ethics. Sophie was previously a visiting professor at the University of Geneva and the University of St-Louis-Brussels and a lecturer at the University of Neuchâtel and the University of Louvain (Uclouvain). She practiced law for several years at the Brussels bar and worked as an expert for the federal government. Her research lies at the crossroads of legal theory, constitutional law, and European law. She is currently focusing on issues relating to digital transformation and its impact on public law. In this context, she is particularly interested in the business and human rights perspective on the management of technological issues.

Andreas R. Ziegler is currently a Professor of International Law at the University of Lausanne and Director of its LLM Program in International Business Law. He holds a conjoint professorship at the Law School of the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) as well as visiting appointments at the Universities of St. Gallen and of the Saarland (Saarbrücken) as well as ETH Zurich and the Geneva Academy. Previously he was a civil servant working for several Swiss Ministries (Foreign Affairs, Trade) and international organizations (EFTA, EU). He has widely published on Swiss, international and European law (including “Swiss LGBT Law”, 2nd edn. 2017) and regularly advises Governments, International Organizations, NGOs and private clients and has represented them before various domestic and international courts and arbitral tribunals. He is on the permanent roster of panelists of the WTO and a Member of the European Commission of Sexual Orientation Law (ECSOL). He is the President of the Swiss Chapter of the International Law Association (ILA) and on the Board of the Swiss and the German Societies of International Law and the European Law Faculties Association - ELFA). He founded and manages the blog “sogiesc.law.blog” on international and comparative SOGIESC law.