Annyssa Bellal (Swiss), Research Assistant, Law Faculty of the University of Geneva

Annyssa Bellal was born in 1973 and is of Swiss nationality. She obtained a first degree in international relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. As she became more interested in human rights law, she received a second degree in Law from the University of Geneva, and a Masters Degree in Philosophy of Law from the Universities of Lyon/Grenoble, France. After a three months experience in a human rights NGO in Colombia, she came back at the Graduate Institute of international relations where she obtained her Masters Degree in Public International Law. Annyssa Bellal begun her doctoral thesis in 2000, on the influence of human rights on the evolution of public international law, while working as a research and teaching assistant at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva. She is currently a Global Research Fellow within the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU