Attorney at law
Zurich, 2017

Dr. iur. (PhD)
University of Zurich, 2015

Lic. iur. (MLaw)
University of Zurich, 2008

Nina Burri is a legal advisor on business and human rights at the Swiss NGO HEKS and counsel at RISE Attorneys at Law. Her main areas of practice and research are international criminal law, international human rights protection and international humanitarian law. She investigates and documents human rights violations and regularly advises NGOs and authorities.

Previously, Nina Burri worked in the Prosecution Division of the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, at various law enforcement authorities in the Canton of Zurich and at the Institute for International Law and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Zurich. She gained her first professional experiences in a newsroom of Swiss National Television (SRF) and at the Swiss Embassy in Argentina.

Nina Burri holds a PhD in international law. Her dissertation on the protection of news providers in armed conflicts was awarded with the Guggenheim Prize in International Law and the Professor Walther Hug Prize. Nina Burri is a lecturer in the master programme 'International Law' at the University of St. Gallen.

Languages
German, English, Spanish, French

Memberships

Vorstandsmitglied Avocat.e.s pour le Climat

Vorstandsmitglied GROUP50:50

Member of the Swiss Expert Pool for Civilian Peacebuilding of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)

Member of the Swiss Branch of the International Law Association and the Swiss Society for International Law

Member of “Arbeitskreis Völkerstrafrecht”

Member of Democratic Lawyers Switzerland and Democratic Lawyers Zurich

News reports & interviews (selection)

Swissinfo, 21 December 2022 (Portrait, climate litigation, loss and damages)

Kontext, 24 May 2021 (Interview, International Criminal Investigations and the ICC)

Echo der Zeit, 3 December 2020 (Interview, War crimes trial against Alieu Kosiah in Bellinzona)

Echo der Zeit, 6 September 2020 (Interview, US-sanctions against the ICC)

Plädoyer, 5 February 2020 (Portrait)

St. Galler Tagblatt, 8 September 2015 (Interview, "Zeugen sind oft unerwünscht")

Publications (selection)

2023
Kriegsverbrechen: Erstes Urteil aus Bellinzona, Plädoyer 4/2023, S. 22 ff.

2021
La lutte contre l’impunité au cœur de la politique étrangère de la Suisse, Le Temps, 14 July 2021

2019
Landesverweisung und Freizügigkeitsabkommen – Bundesgericht vertagt Entscheid über Normenkonflikt (Kommentar zu den Urteilen des Bundesgerichts 6B_1152/2017 vom 28. November 2018 und 6B_235/2018 vom 1. November 2018), suigeneris 2019, p 64 ff

2017
Landesverweisung und Freizügigkeitsabkommen, together with Valerio Priuli, in: AJP 07/2017, p 886 ff

2015
Bravery or Bravado? The Protection of News Providers in Armed Conflicts, International Humanitarian Law Series, Vol. 45, Brill/Nijhoff 2015

2015
Rassismusbekämpfung im europäischen Rechtsraum: Neue Impulse durch den Europäischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte, together with Daniel Thürer, in: Daniel Thürer, Europa als Erfahrung und Experiment, Grundidee Gerechtigkeit, Band 3, Zürich 2015, p 285 ff (first published in: Coexistence, Cooperation and Solidarity, Liber Amicorum Rüdiger Wolfrum, Holger P. Hestermeyer, Doris König, et. al. (eds), Leiden 2011, p 605 ff)

2013
Kriegsberichterstattung im Kreuzfeuer der Interessen, The Zurich Globalist, N 4 (2013), p 26 ff

2011
Menschenrechte: Literaturspiegel 2006-2011, together with Oliver Diggelmann, in: Zeitschrift für Schweizerisches Recht 130 (2011) I, p 479 ff

Several contributions in the areas of human rights, constitutional and international law, namely in Tages-Anzeiger, Perspektiven, foraus-publications and reports for Bread for all.