• International human rights law and private actors
• Global health law
• International law and new technologies 

Professional Experience 

2025-present: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel

2024-2025: Postdoctoral researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Digitalization and Access to Justice, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

2022-2024: SNSF Doc.CH fellow at the Centre of Comparative, European and International Law, University of Lausanne

2020-2022: Graduate assistant at the Centre of Comparative, European and International Law, University of Lausanne

2020: Academic Intern at the Permanent Representation of Switzerland to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

Education: 

2020-2024: PhD in Law summa cum laude, SNSF Doc.CH grant, mention “laureate de l’Université”, Centre of Comparative, European and International Law, University of Lausanne

2024: Ecole d’avocature (ECAV), University of Geneva 

2023: Visiting PhD candidate at the Laboratory of Biomedical Ethics and Public Policy, University of Osaka 

2022: Visiting PhD candidate at the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX), University of Oxford

2018-2020: Master of Law, University of Lausanne

2015-2018: Bachelor of Law, University of Lausanne

Manz, Carlotta. The Use of Genetic Data by Private Parties: Threats to Human Rights (monograph, forthcoming). 

Manz, Carlotta. “MAGA” vs. Global Health? The Potential Impact of the Second Trump’s Administration”, Journal of Global Health Law 2(1), https://doi.org/10.4337/jghl.2025.01.08.

Manz, Carlotta. “Underrepresentation in Genetic Databases, Intersectionality and the Right to Benefit From Scientific Progress”, OpinioJuris (21 July 2025), https://opiniojuris.org/2025/07/21/underrepresentation-in-genetic-databases-intersectionality-and-the-right-to-benefit-from-scientific-progress/.

Manz, Carlotta. “Senator, I Can’t Give You a Yes or No Answer”: The International Right to Health in 2025 for the United States”, Völkerrechtsblog (10 March 2025), https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/senator-i-cant-give-you-a-yes-or-no-answer/ (10.17176/20250311-000825-0.)

Nakasato Kate, Manz Carlotta, Kato Kazuto, Access, Autonomy, and Affordability: Ethical and Human Rights Issues Surrounding Multigene Panel Testing for Cancer in Japan and Switzerland, Frontiers in Genetics (2024), https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/genetics/articles/10.3389/fgene.2024.1343720/full.

Manz, Carlotta. The Use of Genetic Data by Private Parties: How Does the New Swiss Legislation Address the Human Rights Threats? ex/ante no. 2/2021 (2021), https://www.dike.ch/ex-ante-2-2021.

Manz, Carlotta. Commerce et sécurité nationale : une raison légitime pour violer ses engagements internationaux? Jusletter (2021), https://jusletter.weblaw.ch/juslissues/2021/1076/commerce-et-securite_711702a930.html.

• Interdisciplinary Analyses in European Global Studies
• Global Health Law