Anna Petrig is since August 2017 Professor of International Law and Public Law at the University of Basel.
Her main research areas include maritime law, particularly maritime security, human rights at sea and the use of autonomous maritime systems, international humanitarian law, the law of international organizations, and the interaction of (transformed) international law with national law.
Anna Petrig studied in Friborg and Paris and completed her law degree with a specialization in European law at the University of Friborg in 2003. Between 2002 and 2005, as an elected member of the Constitutional Council, she was involved in drafting the Friborg cantonal constitution. Anna Petrig acquired her attorney's license from the Canton of Bern in 2006 and is admitted to practice law in the US state of New York.
In 2007, she completed her LL.M. studies at Harvard Law School as a Fulbright scholar focusing on human rights. After working as a legal attaché in the legal department of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), she conducted research as part of her dissertation project at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund, southern Sweden, and at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Affairs Criminal law in Freiburg i.Br. and received his doctorate in the field of human rights at sea from the University of Basel in 2013.
Until taking up the assistant professorship for public law and international law at the University of Zurich in February 2017, she worked on her habilitation project as part of an SNF Postdoc. Mobility scholarship.
Anna Petrig is since August 2017 Professor of International Law and Public Law at the University of Basel.
Her main research areas include maritime law, particularly maritime security, human rights at sea and the use of autonomous maritime systems, international humanitarian law, the law of international organizations, and the interaction of (transformed) international law with national law.
Anna Petrig studied in Friborg and Paris and completed her law degree with a specialization in European law at the University of Friborg in 2003. Between 2002 and 2005, as an elected member of the Constitutional Council, she was involved in drafting the Friborg cantonal constitution. Anna Petrig acquired her attorney's license from the Canton of Bern in 2006 and is admitted to practice law in the US state of New York.
In 2007, she completed her LL.M. studies at Harvard Law School as a Fulbright scholar focusing on human rights. After working as a legal attaché in the legal department of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), she conducted research as part of her dissertation project at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund, southern Sweden, and at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Affairs Criminal law in Freiburg i.Br. and received his doctorate in the field of human rights at sea from the University of Basel in 2013.
Until taking up the assistant professorship for public law and international law at the University of Zurich in February 2017, she worked on her habilitation project as part of an SNF Postdoc. Mobility scholarship.
