Stephanie Motz

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Stephanie Motz is a constitutional and international lawyer specializing in international human rights protection, migration law, criminal law, and international criminal law. She litigates before national and international courts, including the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Committees in Geneva. She began her legal career in London in 2008. Prior to that, she gained practical experience at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, the Greek Refugee Council in Athens, and the Ministry of Justice of Malawi. She has been practicing law in Zurich since 2011. Stephanie Motz earned her doctorate with honors on the refugee status of persons with disabilities. She is a lecturer in international migration law at the University of Lucerne, where she worked part-time as a research assistant from 2016 and as a post-doctoral research fellow (Caroni Chair) from 2018. Stephanie Motz regularly lectures and publishes on human rights issues.