Sebastian Held

[Translate to English:] Sebastian Held

Sebastian Held
Doctoral Student
Institute for European Global Studies
University of Basel
Riehenstrasse 154
CH-4058 Basel

  • Bilateral law between Switzerland and the EU
  • Legal enforcement and dispute settlement in international agreements
  • Rule of law and democratic theory
  • Human rights and international humanitarian law

Working title:
“Enforcement of bilateral law between Switzerland and the European Union from a comparative perspective, including in particular the protection of rights of individuals”

Since April 2026: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) PhD candidate in European Law (Prof. Dr. Christa Tobler) at the European Institute of the University of Basel

January 2026 – March 2026: University internship in the Free Movement of Persons Section at the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) in Bern

June 2023 – September 2025: Research assistant at the European Institute of the University of Basel

March 2023 – July 2025: M.A. in European Global Studies, University of Basel (magna cum laude); title of the Master’s thesis:
“‘So han ich schliesslech dr Staat chönne rette’ – An intellectual-historical and legal-historical contextualisation of state and societal pluralism according to Mani Matter using Quentin Skiner’s contextual approach”

October 2021 – January 2023: Civilian service in the International Affairs Section at the Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) in Ittigen

September 2017 – August 2021: Bachelor of Law, University of Bern

 

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