Besson, Samantha (born 1973), is a legal academic in public international law and European law. Born in Beirut and a national of Switzerland and the United Kingdom, Besson has been a Professor of Law at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland since 2005.
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Besson received her initial degree in law summa cum laude in 1996 from the University of Fribourg. In 1998, she earned a Magister Juris with first class honors in European and Comparative Law from Balliol College at the University of Oxford, completing a thesis on the economic and legal impact of anti-discrimination laws. In 1999, she completed a Doctorate in Constitutional Law summa cum laude from the University of Fribourg and in 2004 a postdoctoral Habilitation at the University of Bern. Her 1999 PhD on the legal theory and Swiss application of horizontal equality was awarded prizes for being the best PhD dissertation submitted at the University of Fribourg and among the best dissertations submitted in Switzerland.
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Besson S (1998) The law and economics of anti-discrimination law. Dissertation, University of Oxford
Besson S (1999) L’égalité horizontale: L’égalité de traitement entre particuliers – des fondements théoriques au droit privé suisse. Dissertation, University of Fribourg
Besson S (2004) Reasonable disagreement and the law. Dissertation, University of Bern
Besson S (2005) The morality of conflict: reasonable disagreement and the law. Hart Publishing, Oxford
Besson S (2016a) Droit constitutionnel européen: Abrégé de cours et résumés de jurisprudence, 3rd edn. Stämpfli, Bern
Besson S (2016b) Droit international public: Abrégé de cours et résumés de jurisprudence, 3rd edn. Stämpfli, Bern
Besson S, Martí JL (eds) (2006) Deliberative democracy and its discontents: national and international perspectives. Ashgate, Aldershot
Besson S, Martí JL (eds) (2009) Legal republicanism: national and international. Oxford University Press, Oxford
Besson S, Tasioulas J (eds) (2010) The philosophy of international law. Oxford University Press, Oxford
Besson S, Ziegler AR (2012) Internationale verträge: Textsammlung in völkerrecht, 2nd edn. Stämpfli, Bern
Besson S, Ziegler AR (2016) Traités internationaux: Recueil de textes de droit international public, 3rd edn. Stämpfli, Bern
Besson S, Breitenmoser S, Sassoli M, Ziegler AR (2013) Völkerrecht/droit international public: Aide-mémoire, 2nd edn. Dike, Zürich
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Smith, S. (2017). Besson, Samantha. In: Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_189-1
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