Meet our team members

Nesa Zimmermann is Assistant Professor and Chair of Swiss and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Neuchâtel. She studied at the University of Neuchâtel (BLaw 2011, MLaw 2012), King's College London (LL.M. 2012) and the University of Geneva (PhD 2020). She has been invited researcher at the University of Utrecht and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law in Heidelberg.

For her thesis, she was awarded the Swiss Society of International Law Prize (2021) and the Professor Walther Hug Prize (2023). From 2012 to 2022, she worked at the Department of Public Law at the University of Geneva, where she co-directed the Law Clinic on the rights of vulnerable persons from 2017 to 2022. She was managing editor of the three-volume edited book Droit constitutionnel suisse / Verfassungsrecht der Schweiz published in 2020. From 2022 to 2024, Nesa co-lead a research project on feminist judgments (réécriture de jugements) together with Djemila Carron (UQÀM).

Nesa specializes in fundamental rights and human rights, federal systems, minority rights, vulnerability theory and feminist approaches to law.