Bio
After law school at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Dr Marion Panizzon completed her LLM at Duke University and worked as Prof. John Jackson’s research and editorial assistant at Georgetown University Law Center. As a junior researcher, she has also visited COMPAS, Oxford University, and lead several multi-year research projects for the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Bern. Currently, she is a senior research fellow of the World Trade Institute, University of Bern and consults in the fields of trade and migration for several organisations such as the European Union Agency for Asylum, the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, the Swiss Development Agency and the EU Directorate General for Trade.
Marion advocates for expanding legal pathways, whether at the Forum of Swiss Foreign Policy or by teaching Syrian refugees at Jordan’s Azraq Camp English online with INZONE, University of Geneva. Besides lecturing on migration law for the Institute of Education Science, University of Bern, Marion co-chairs the advisory board to the Göttingen University Center for Global Migration Studies (CeMiG).
Publications
- ‘Through the Looking-Glass: The IOM Recasting the Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration Narrative at the UN and in West Africa’, Geopolitics, 2023 with Luzia Jurt.
- ‘The Rule of Law and Human Mobility in the Age of the Global Compacts’. 2022. MDPI Laws online with Daniela Vitiello and Tamas Molnar.
- ‘Adjudicating Labor Mobility under France's Agreements on the Joint Management of Migration Flows: How Courts Politicize Bilateral Migration Diplomacy’. 2022. 23(2) Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 326-373
- ‘A collective commitment to improving cooperation on migration’: analysis of a thematic consultation session for the Global Compact for Migration. 2022. Third World Quarterly, online with Micheline van Riemsdijk.
- ‘Multi-level Migration Governance in an Era of Large Movements’. 2019. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 1225-1236 with Micheline van Riemsdijk.
- The EU External Policies on Migration, Borders and Asylum, Policy Transfers or Intersecting Policy Universes? Sergio Carrera, Leonhard den Hertog, Marion Panizzon and Dora Kostakopoulou (eds.) Den Haag; Martinus Nijhoff (2019).
- ‘The EU-Jordan Compact in a Trade Law Context: Trading Preferential Access to the EU Market to ‘Keep Refugees in the Region’. Constitutionalising the External Dimensions of EU Migration
- Policies in Times of Crisis. Legality, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Reconsidered. In: Juan Santos Vera, Sergio Carrera and Tineke Strik (eds.) Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK (2019) 220-237.
- Palgrave Handbook on International Labor Migration, Marion Panizzon, Gottfried Zürcher and Elisa Fornalé (eds.) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2015).
- Multilayered Migration Governance: The Promise of Partnerships, Rahel Kunz, Sandra Lavenex and Marion Panizzon (eds.) New York: Routledge (2011).