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MARIE-HÉLÈNE PETER-SPIESS

Research Associate, Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute
Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Law, University of Zurich
Spoken languages
French, German, English
Areas of expertise
  • Global Health Law
  • Medical Law
  • Food Law
  • Reproduction and the Law
  • Corporate Law

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Marie-Hélène is an affiliated researcher at the Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law at the University of Zurich.

As part of her research, Marie-Hélène has been a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge and at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center. She has also served as an adjunct lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, the Reims campus. Prior to her academic activities, she worked as an attorney-at-law in a Swiss business law firm.

Marie-Hélène holds a PhD in Law from the University of Zurich, a CAS in Legal Professions from the University of Geneva, a Master in Law from the University of Zurich, and a Bachelor in Law from the University of Fribourg. She also completed part of her studies at the East China University of Political Sciences and Law in Shanghai.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

 

  • Food regulation and public health: the case of sugar, Diss. Zürich (forthcoming)
  • Disputing Legal Fatherhood: Navigating Hurdles and Balancing Interests: Vagdalt v Hungary (App. No. 9525/19), in: European Human Rights Law Review (forthcoming)
  • Sucres ajoutés et santé publique : quelles perspectives pour une réglementation ?, in: Jusletter 26 August 2024 (link)
  • A.L. v. France: Domestic Surrogacy, Genetic Fatherhood and the Best Interests of the Child, in: Strasbourg Observers, 10 February 2023 (link)
  • Human Germline Editing: Legal Framework in Switzerland and Abroad, in: Life Science Recht, 4/2022, pp. 251–260 (with Andrea Büchler, link)
  • Surrogacy and Same-Sex Parenthood Before the European Court of Human Rights: Reflections in Light of Cases Against Switzerland, in: Swiss Review of International and European Law, 32, 3/2022, pp. 397–419 (with Elena Brodeala, link)
  • Book review of Alice Margaria, The Construction of Fatherhood: The Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2019), in: Human Rights Law Review, 22, 2/2022, pp. 1–5 (with Elena Brodeala)
  • Gender Balance on Boards: Potential and Challenges for Regulation at EU Level, in: Romanian Journal of Comparative Law, 1/2021, pp. 7–37 (with Elena Brodeala, link)
  • Acceptation de dépôts du public, émission d’obligations et ICO, in: Zeitschrift für Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht (GesKR), 3/2019, pp. 459–465 (with Jacques Iffland)