Research directions
Sociology of law: Law, Politics and Society
Law and Social Movements: legal mobilizations and strategic litigations
Law and Policy: law implementation, discretion, judicialization
International Law and Subnational Policymaking
Legal and rights Consciousness
Sociology of political institutions
Relationships to public institutions
Administrations
Parlements cantonaux
Street-Level Organizations and Street-Level Bureaucracy
Administrations
Nonprofit organizations
Legal aid services
Asylum Policies and Border Control
Analysis of asylum policies and border control in Europe
Ethnographic research on the Swiss asylum policy: administration, legal defense and the Court
History of the Swiss asylum policy: politicization of asylum and judicialization of the asylum policy
Immigration detention in Switzerland
Human Rights
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention)
UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD)
International law and subnational policymaking in Switzerland: The cases of the Istanbul Convention and the CRPD