Gloria Gaggioli

About/Bio

Dr Gloria Gaggioli is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Geneva and Principal Investigator at Counter-Terror Pro LegEm, a research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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Counter-terrorism control orders come to Switzerland: is assigned residence for ‘potential terrorists’ compatible with art. 5 ECHR?

The legislative responses to terrorist violence in Europe over the past several years have shown a new trend of circumventing proper judicial review and protections of criminal law by relying on ‘administrative measures’. Broadly, such measures can be defined as restrictions of a non-criminal nature, ordered by the executive in the name of terrorism prevention, and…

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Joint Blog Series on International Law and Armed Conflict: Are Sieges Prohibited under Contemporary IHL?

Editor’s Note: This post the final post in the joint series hosted by the ICRC Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, EJIL Talk! and Lawfare, and arising out of the 6th Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict held at the European University Institute in Florence in July. Contemporary armed conflicts in Syria, Yemen…

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