Professor Maya Hertig
Maya Hertig Randall holds a Ph.D. from the AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ of Fribourg, a first class LL.M. degree from the AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ of Cambridge, UK, and was admitted to the Geneva bar in 2002. She joined the Law Faculty of the AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ as Professor of constitutional law in 2007. Previously she had been a junior and senior research fellow, and later Assistant Professor of European and International Economic Law, at the AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ of Berne. Moreover, she was a visiting scholar at the Central European AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ in Budapest, Hungary, and the AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her main fields of research and publications in French, German and English are international and comparative human rights, in particular freedom of speech and religious freedom, judicial review, international constitutionalism and federalism, and diversity acommodation. From 2012 to 2023, Maya Hertig Randall was a member and during the last four years Vice-President of the Swiss Federal Commission Against Racism. She is co-director of the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Human Rights at the AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ and member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), as well as responsible for the Law Clinic of Vulnerable Persons at the Geneva Law Faculty.