Samantha Besson
Visiting Professor of Law
Samantha Besson specializes in European and international law, with a focus on human rights law and theory and international legal theory.
A Professor of Public International Law and European Law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), Besson joins the Duke Law faculty as a Visiting Professor in 2009. She holds a Degree in Swiss and European Law from the University of Fribourg and Vienna, a Magister Juris in European and Comparative Law from the University of Oxford, a PhD in Law from the University of Fribourg and a Habilitation in Legal Theory and Comparative, European and International Constitutional Law from the University of Bern.
Along with numerous publications in French, she is the author of the monograph The Morality of Conflict: Reasonable Disagreement and Law (Hart Publishing: Oxford, 2005), co-edited the collection of essays Deliberative Democracy and its Discontents (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2006) with José Luis Martí and is currently co-editing two forthcoming collections of essays, one on The Philosophy of International Law (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2009) with John Tasioulas and the other on Legal Republicanism: National and International Perspectives (Oxford University Press: Oxford 2009) with José Luis Martí.