Eva 

BELSER

Eva Maria Belser holds a Chair for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Fribourg and a UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Democracy. She is Co-Director of the Institute of Federalism and a Board Member of the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Human Rights. Her research interests are in the field of Swiss and comparative constitutional law, federalism, decentralisation and globalisation, human and minority rights and democracy as well as constitution making and conflict resolution. She regularly accepts mandates to serve as a Swiss expert in international cooperation and consultancy projects. Her recent consultancy activities were related to the Horn of Africa, Iraq, Sri Lanka and Syria. Eva Maria Belser is a member of the Group of Independent Experts of the European Charter of Local Self-Government, Swiss experts for the Moscow Mechanism of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and on the United Nations Development Programme list of constitutional experts (UNDP Constitution Making Experts Roster). She was awarded the Swiss federalism prize in 2019.

Swiss and Comparative Constitutional law, Federalism, Decentralisation and Globalisation, Human and Minority Rights and Democracy, Constitution Making and Conflict Resolution