Education and work experience
Work experience
CV Eva Lein
Eva Lein is Professeur ordinaire at the Faculté de droit, des sciences criminelles et d'administration publique de l'Université de Lausanne. Her fields of expertise include private international law, international dispute resolution and comparative law. She also is a Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) in London.
She is a qualified German lawyer, fluent in English, French, Italian, Spanish and German and has been lecturing in various countries. She is Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and at Queen Mary University of London, Institute in Paris and was Visiting Professor at different institutions, including the University Paris II (Panthéon-Assas).
Eva Lein has published extensively on topical issues of comparative and private international law with a special focus on international litigation and European conflict of laws. Recent publications include 'Unchartered Territory? A few Thoughts on Private International Law post Brexit', 17 YbPIL (2016), p. 33 ff, the co-edited commentary 'The Brussels I Regulation Recast', Oxford University Press 2015 and the co-edited volume 'Collective Redress in Europe - Why and How', BIICL 2015. Her PhD on European, international and comparative contract law was graded summa cum laude.
She also regularly speaks at international conferences and seminars and is is engaged in international research projects in collaboration with foreign scientific institutions. Eva Lein is also an advisory board member of the Yearbook of Private International Law.
Since 2016 she has been specialising on the legal consequences of Brexit and has acted as an expert for the House of Commons and the Law Society of England and Wales on Brexit in a cross-border context. She was also an expert for the UK Ministry of Justice, the UK Parliament, the European Commission, the European Parliament and Swiss Authorities.
