Attorney at law
Zurich, 2017
Dr. iur. (PhD)
University of Zurich, 2015
Lic. iur. (MLaw)
University of Zurich, 2008
Contact
burri@riselaw.ch
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, documents and litigates human rights violations and advises regularly NGOs and public 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 Radio and 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’s programme in International Law at the University of St. Gallen.
Languages
German, English, Spanish, French
Memberships
Vorstandsmitglied Avocat.e.s pour le Climat
Member of the Swiss Expert Pool for Civilian Peacebuilding of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)
Member of “Arbeitskreis Völkerstrafrecht”
Member of the Swiss Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
Member of Democratic Lawyers Switzerland and Democratic Lawyers Zurich
Member Unser Recht
Publications (selection)
2025
Elevating Women’s Voices in Transnational Climate Litigation: The Case of Asmania et al. v Holcim, in: Maria Antonia Tigre, Melanie Murcott and Susan Ann Samuel (eds), Climate Litigation and Vulnerabilities: Global South Perspectives, Routledge, p 163 ff, with Laura Duarte Reyes
2025
Eine Entschuldigung genügt nicht: Bei der Verfolgung der Jenischen sollte sich die Schweiz ihrer Geschichte stellen, 21 May 2025, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, with Nadja Capus
2023
Transnational corporate liability in the era of loss and damages: the case of Asmania et al v Holcim, in: Stefano Zirulia, Lidia Sandrini and Cesare Pitea (eds), What future for environmental and climate litigation? Exploring the added value of a multidisciplinary approach from international, private and criminal law perspectives, Milano University Press, p 97 ff, with Laura Reyes Duarte
2023
Kriegsverbrechen: Erstes Urteil aus Bellinzona, Plädoyer 4/2023, p 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
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, Handeln, foraus-publications and reports for Bread for all and HEKS.