Tobias Naef
Professional affiliation
Wilson Center Projects
Data Protection without Data Protectionism
Full Biography
Tobias Naef is a doctoral student at the University of Zurich. He holds degrees in law (MLaw, BLaw) and political science (BArts) from the Universities of Bern and Zurich. In 2018 he received a scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation to conduct research for his doctoral thesis as a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge and the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam. He previously worked for the Swiss Foreign Ministry, a boutique law firm in New York, the World Trade Institute at the University of Bern and the Europe Institute at the University of Zurich. Tobias Naef is a co-founder and current board member of Zurich based foreign policy think tank foraus - Forum Aussenpolitik.
Major Publications
Trade Defence Instruments and Switzerland: The Big Sleep, European Yearbook of International Economic Law, Special Issue Trade Defence Instruments, 2019 forthcoming, with Matthias Oesch
Popular Initiatives Contrary to International Law. A Swiss Dilemma, in: Andreas Kellerhals/Tobias Baumgartner (eds.), Rule of Law in Europe – Current Challenges, Schulthess, Zurich 2017, pp. 241-271.
EU-Grundrechte, der EuGH und die Schweiz, (2) Zeitschrift für Schweizerisches Recht 2017, pp. 117-144, with Matthias Oesch.