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Profile
Dr Stefanie Schacherer is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for International Law (CIL). Dr Schacherer holds the degrees of Doktorin der Rechtswissenschaften from the University of Vienna and Docteure en droit from the University of Geneva (summa cum laude, July 2019). The thesis was written as part of a cotutelle de thèse between the two universities.
Dr Schacherer obtained an LLM in International Business Law from King’s College London (2014, funded by the Ernst and Lucie Schmidheiny Foundation), a Master in International and European Law (2013) and a Bachelor of Laws (2011) both from the University of Geneva. Prior to joining CIL, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the World Trade Institute (WTI), University of Bern.
Dr Schacherer is the author of numerous publications on sustainable development and international investment law, the European Union’s investment policy and the investment regime of Africa. Her monograph on Sustainable Development in EU Foreign Investment Law (Brill’s Nijhoff International Investment Law Series, forthcoming 2021) offers an account of the legal effects of sustainable development within the EU’s international investment law-making and global investment governance.
Current Research Project
Dr Schacherer’s postdoctoral research project examines regulatory cooperation and regulatory coherence commitments under preferential trade agreements with a particular focus on mega-regional trade agreements and their impacts on international economic law governance. The project has received funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
Practice
Dr Schacherer has provided technical assistance and capacity-building for several developing countries, and worked for governmental and non-governmental organizations, including the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the European External Action Service, the African Union and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).
Working Languages
English, French and German.
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Research Interests
- International investment law and arbitration
- EU law and EU external relations law
- Regional and international organizations
- Regional integration
- Global economic governance
- Sustainable development
- Development cooperation
- Corporate responsibility
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Selected Publications
Books
Stefanie Schacherer, Sustainable Development in EU Foreign Investment Law, (Brill/Nijhoff, forthcoming 2021)
Makane Moïse Mbengue and Stefanie Schacherer (eds), Foreign Investment Under the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Springer International Publishing, 2019; https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-98361-5
Stefanie Schacherer, International Investment Law and Sustainable Development – Key Cases from the 2010s, e-book, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), 2018; https://www.iisd.org/library/international-investment-law-and-sustainable-development-key-cases-2010s
Articles
Stefanie Schacherer, ‘The Uncertain Future of the Energy Charter Treaty: Belgium asks the European Court of Justice to Rule on the Compatibility of the Modernized ECT with EU Law’, Investment Treaty News, 2021, n° 1
Makane Moïse Mbengue and Stefanie Schacherer, ‘Systemic Implications of the RCEP for the International Economic Law Governance, AfronomicsLaw, February 2021 https://www.afronomicslaw.org/category/analysis/systemic-implications-rcep-international-economic-law-governance
Stefanie Schacherer, ‘Facilitating Investment through IIAs: The Case of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement’, Columbia FDI Perspectives No 295, January 11, 2021, file:///Users/s3/Downloads/No-295-Schacherer-FINAL-1.pdf
Makane Moïse Mbengue and Stefanie Schacherer, ‘The ‘Africanization’ of International Investment Law: The Pan-African Investment Code and the Reform of the International Investment Regime’, Journal of World Investment & Trade (2017) vol 18, n° 3, pp 414-448; https://brill.com/view/journals/jwit/18/3/article-p414_4.xml?language=en
Stefanie Schacherer, ‘TPP, CETA and TTIP Between Innovation and Consolidation – Resolving Investor-State Disputes under Mega-regionals’, Journal of International Dispute Settlement, (2016) vol 7, n° 3, pp 628-653; https://academic.oup.com/jids/article/7/3/628/2473219
Stefanie Schacherer, ‘The EU as a Global Actor in Reforming the International Investment Regime in Light of Sustainable Development’, Geneva Jean Monnet Working Paper No 01/2017; http://www.ceje.ch/files/9715/1057/7250/Schacherer_Stefanie_FINAL.pdf
Stefanie Schacherer, ‘Independence and Impartiality of Arbitrators – A Rule of Law Analysis’, International Investment Law and the Rule of Law, University of Vienna, Paper Jan/2018; https://deicl.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_deicl/VR/VR_Personal/Reinisch/Internetpublikationen/Schacherer.pdf
Stefanie Schacherer, ‘Can EU Member States Still Negotiate BITs with Third Countries?’, Investment Treaty News, 2016, vol 7, n° 3
Stefanie Schacherer, ‘La première affaire CIRDI contre la Guinée est rejetée pour défaut de compétence’, Investment Treaty News, 2016, vol 7, n° 2
Stefanie Schacherer, ‘La Cour de justice apporte des précisions quant à la portée de l’expression « mouvements de capitaux » au sens de l’article 64 TFUE’, Actualités du Centre d’études juridiques européennes, 2015
Stefanie Schacherer, ‘La question de la compatibilité de l’arbitrage d’investissement des litiges intra-UE demeure ouverte’, Actualités du Centre d’études juridiques européennes, 2015
Book chapters
August Reinisch and Stefanie Schacherer, ‘The Definition of Investor and Investment’, in Cordonnier Segger MC and Stephenson S (eds), Research Handbook on Investment Law and Sustainable Development, Edward Elgar Publishing (accepted, to be published in 2021)
Stefanie Schacherer, ‘Art. 8.9 CETA-Agreement on Investment and Regulatory Measures’, in Bungenberg M and Reinisch A (eds), CETA Investment Law – Article-by-Article Commentary, Nomos Verlangsgesellschaft mbH (accepted, to be published in 2021)
Makane Moïse Mbengue and Stefanie Schacherer, ‘International Investment Law before African Courts’, in Ruiz Fabri H and Stoppioni E (eds), International Investment Law: An Analysis of Major Decisions, Hart Publishing (accepted, to be published in 2021); https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3547602
Stefanie Schacherer, ‘The Investment Court System proposed by the European Union – What does it mean for Africa?’, in Hodu Y and Mbengue MM, African Perspectives to International Law, Manchester University Press, 2020; https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526151261/
Makane Moïse Mbengue and Stefanie Schacherer, ‘Evolution of International Investment Agreements in Africa: Features and Challenges of Investment Law “Africanization”’, in Chaisse J, Choukroune L and Jusoh S (eds), Handbook of International Investment Law and Policy, Volume IV: Trends in International Investment Rulemaking and Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Springer International Publishing, 2019; https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-981-13-5744-2_77-1
Stefanie Schacherer and Rhea Tamara Hoffmann, ‘International Investment Law and Sustainable Development’, in Krajewski M and Hoffmann RT (eds), Research Handbook on Foreign Direct Investment, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019, pp 563-595; https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/research-handbook-on-foreign-direct-investment
Stefanie Schacherer, ‘The CETA Investment Chapter and Sustainable Development: Interpretative Issues’, in Mbengue MM and Schacherer S (eds), Foreign Investment under the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Springer International Publishing, 2019, pp 207-238; https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-98361-5_9
Makane Moïse Mbengue and Stefanie Schacherer, ‘Africa and the Rethinking of International Investment Law: About the Elaboration of the Pan-African Investment Code’, in Roberts A, Stephan PB, Verdier PH and Versteeg M, Comparative International Law, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp 547-569; https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190697570.001.0001/oso-9780190697570-chapter-25
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Conference Presentations
Regulatory Integration through Mega-Regionals – New challenges for Global Economic Governance’ European Society of International Law (ESIL) Annual Conference, Stockholm, 9-11 September 2021
‘Investment Treaty Reform in Asia: Rule Makers, Takers or Brakers?’, CIL-USALI Conference on Investment Law Reform: The View from Asia (online), 16 June 2021
‘Intergenerational Solidary’ ESIL Research Forum, Catania (online), 15 April 2021
‘The AfCFTA Investment Protocol: An Opportunity to Converge and Propel the Pan African Investment Code’, 2nd AAA Annual Conference, Accra (online) 14 April 2021
‘Investment Facilitation Provisions in the RCEP’, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (UNESCAP) (online), 23 February 2021
‘Economic Cooperation under the RCEP’, World Trade Institute Bern (online), 26 January 2021
‘Environmental Impact Assessments in Mining Investments’, Eighth Annual Conference of the African Society for International Law (AfSIL), Durban, South Africa, 26 October 2019
‘Investment Law in African Courts’ Book Preparation Workshop, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg, 7 June 2019
‘Sustainable Development and the International Investment Law Making of the European Union’, Round Table, University of Vienna, 18 December 2018
‘The EU as a Global Actor in Reforming the International Investment Regime in Light of Sustainable Development’, 3rd Jean Monnet Doctoral Workshop, University of Geneva, 7 July 2017
‘Philip Morris v. Uruguay: The Standard of Review’, UNIGE-IISD Lunch Series on Investment Disputes, University of Geneva, 22 June 2017
‘The Investment Court System proposed by the European Union – What does it mean for Africa?’, Fifth Annual Conference of the African Society for International Law (AfSIL), Accra, Ghana, 29 October 2016
