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Global & Senior Global Research Fellows
Academic Year 2005-2006
Dr. Frank Haldemann
Global Research and Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Fellow
Dr. Frank Haldemann is a Global Research Fellow and Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Fellow. His research encompasses international human rights law, international criminal law, constitutional law, legal history, legal philosophy and bioethics. He is particulary interested in exploring issues at the border between law and ethics. At NYU School of Law, he will work on the question of transitional justice as an emerging field of international law.
In 1999, Dr. Haldemann received his lic.iur., cum laude, from University of Fribourg, Switzerland, after completing a year in the Erasmus Exchange Program at the University of Vienna, Austria. From 1999 to 2001, he worked as a legal researcher for the Independent Commission of Experts: Switzerland–Second World War. In 2002, he obtained his LL.M. degree in Legal Theory and History, with merit, from the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, where he was awarded the British Chevening Scholarship. He wrote a doctoral thesis in the field of legal philosophy and constitutional law titled Responsibility as a Constitutional Principle and, in February 2004, earned his Ph.D. in Law, magna cum laude, from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. In 2003, he became a research assistant/junior lecturer (maître assistant) at the Bioethics Center of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Haldemann has carried out several research and consulting projects for the Swiss Federal Administration. He is a committee member of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Ethics.