Institute of European and International Economic Law

Team

Prof. Dr. Michael Hahn

Managing Director

Department of Economic Law

Phone
+41 31 684 34 32
E-Mail
michael.hahn@unibe.ch
Postal Address
Hallerstrasse 6
CH-3012 Bern
Consultation Hour
Meetings by appointment or with the secretariat +41 31 684 36 25

Prof. Michael Hahn became the Managing Director of the Institute for European and International Economic Law of the University of Bern Law School in 2015; he also is a Director at the World Trade Institute. Before joining Bern University, Michael held the chair of European law at the University of Lausanne and was a Professor of Law at the University of Waikato, Hamilton (New Zealand); he remains affiliated with both institutions. He has been a visiting professor in all continents, inter alia at the Universities of Bonn, Fukuoka, Ghent, Macerata, Paris, Zurich, at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, the Europa-Institut Saarbrücken, Murdoch University Perth, PUCP Lima, the Universidad de Chile, the University of the Witwatersrand and UNSW. Michael teaches and publishes in English, French and German and advises sovereign and private clients in questions of international economic law and EU internal market and foreign relations law. He received his basic legal training in Germany, and holds a doctorate from the University of Heidelberg and a master’s degree from the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor.

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Autumn Spring
Europarecht I Case Studies in European Law (English)
Einführung ins öffentliche Recht Trading in and with Europe (EU Law II)
International Trade Regulation(English) Recht der bilateralen Beziehungen Schweiz-EU
Berner Rechtsdebatten Seminar im Europa- und Wirtschaftsvölkerrecht

Michael’s latest pertinent publications include:  The World Trade Organization – Law, Practice, and Policy, 3rd edition, OUP: 2017 (paperback) [with M. Matsushita, T. Schoenbaum & P. Mavroidis]; The Future of Trade Defence Instruments: Global Policy Trends and Legal Challenges [with Marc Bungenberg, Christoph Herrmann, Till Müller-Ibold], European Yearbook of International Economic Law. Special issue: Vol. 2018., Springer 2018 , The Shifting Landscape of Global Trade Governance [with Manfred Elsig and Gabriele Spilker], Cambridge University Press 2019; The Common Commercial Policy – 10 Years after Lisbon [authored and edited with Guillaume van der Loo], Brill 2021. His latest articles deal with the relationship between Switzerland and its neighbour (Je t’aime ... Moi non plus: Current legal issues concerning Swiss-EU relationship [In German: Je t’aime ... Moi non plus: Rechtsfragen des Verhältnisses Schweiz – EU, Zeitschrift des Bernischen Juristenvereins ZBJV 157 (2021), the Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the EU (The Theoretical framework of bilateral trade agreements, in: European Yearbook of International Economic Law -- Special issue: the Australia-EU FTA (2021) and systemic issues of international global (economic) governance (Interesting Times: Soft Law in International Economic Governance, in: Asian Yearbook of International Economic Law (1) 2021).