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Dr. iur. Monika Plozza is a senior research associate (postdoc) and lecturer, specializing in public law. In the academic year 2024/2025, she is teaching courses in Public International Law, Migration Law, International Human Rights Law, and International Humanitarian Law.

In addition, she serves as an advisor on the human right to science for the Geneva Science Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA), an independent foundation established by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). Prior to commencing her doctoral studies, she was employed at the Legal Department of the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM).

Monika Plozza studied law at the Universities of Lucerne and Edinburgh. With the support of the Mobility Grant for Doctoral Students, she conducted research stays at the Universities of Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Oxford. In the academic year 2021/2022, she was selected as one of four Schindler Junior Scholars, a prestigious programme designed to promote outstanding doctoral students in Switzerland, at the Institute for International and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Zurich. She completed her doctorate at the University of Lucerne in 2024, graduating with highest distinction. Her dissertation, «The Human Right to Science – Down to the Core: Promoting its Justiciability in International Law», was awarded the University of Lucerne’s prize for the best doctoral thesis and will be published as a monograph.

She is the president of the Swiss Network of young Migration Scholars (SNyMS) and is regularly contributing to the academic self-governance of the University of Lucerne through her involvement in the Association for Scientific Staff Members (MOL), the Senate, the Faculty Assembly, and the Working Group for Diversity.

A list of Monika Plozza’s publications can be found here. A short video presentation of her completed doctoral project is available online.

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Swiss Junior Researchers' Forum for Public Law

Swiss Junior Researchers' Forum for Public Law offers junior researchers in the field of public law a cross-university framework for exchange. The main activity is an annual meeting at which ongoing research projects and other aspects of academic work are discussed.

If you would like to be added to the forum's mailing list, please send an e-mail to monika.plozzaremove-this.@remove-this.unilu.ch.

Organising team: Monika Plozza (Universität Luzern), Micol Ferrario (Università della Svizzera italiana), Marc-Olivier Busslinger (Université de Genève)