Prof. Dr. Nicolas Bueno
Nicolas Bueno is assistant professor at the French-speaking faculty of law of UniDistance Suisse.
He completed his doctorate in international public law at the University of Lausanne after a research stay at Columbia Law School in New York (2012-2013, Fulbright) scholarship. He then conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Louvain (2016) and at The London School of Economics (2017) with a Postdoc.Mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and at the University of Zurich (2018-2021) with an SNSF-Ambizione research grant. He also taught International Economic Law at the University of Lausanne and the University of Zurich, and Public International Law at the University of Lugano.
His fields of research are Law and Economic Globalization, Business and Human Rights, Labour Law and Political Economy. His resaerch has been published in journals, such as the International Labour Review, Business and Human Rights Journal, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities or le Journal of World Investment and Trade. He works on his current project, Political Economy of Labour Law: Workers Rights from Classical Liberalism to Post-Growth Economics and is the editor of Labour Law Utopias: Post-Growth and Post-Productive Approaches (Oxford University Press 2024). As a practitioner, he led strategic disputes in economy and human rights at the Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin (2014-2015), and he worked in the division of international investments and multinational business at the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).
Aktuelles
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Wie sieht die Zukunft der Arbeit in Zeiten der Digitalisierung und der Sinnsuche der jüngeren Generationen aus?
Arbeit in einer «Postwachstums»-Logik
Verantwortungsvolle Unternehmen, ist die Schweiz bald isoliert? Prof. Dr. Nicolas Bueno spricht in der Sendung «Forum»
Arbeit ohne Wirtschaftswachstum?
Lehre
M09 | Approfondissement en droit européen Master en droit |
M07 | Droit international public et européen Bachelor en droit |
Funktionen an der FernUni Schweiz
Fakultät Recht
- Assistenzprofessor
Recht, wirtschaftliche Globalisierung und nachhaltige Entwicklung
- Assistenzprofessor
Fakultätskollegium Recht
- Assistenzprofessor
Publikationen
Scientific journal articles
- Bueno Nicolas, Anil Yilmaz Vastardis, Isidore Ngueuleu Djeuga, Investor Human Rights and Environmental Obligations: The Need to Redesign Corporate Social Responsibility Clauses, 24 Journal of World Investment & Trade (2023) 176 doi: 10.1163/22119000-12340278
- Bueno Nicolas, From Productive Work to Capability-Enhancing Work: Implications for Labour Law and Policy, 23(3) Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (2022) 354-372 doi: 10.1080/19452829.2021.1951186
- Bueno Nicolas, Freedom ‘at’, ‘through‘ and ‘from’ Work : Rethinking Labour Rights, 160 (2) International Labour Review (2021) 311-329. doi: 10.1111/ilr.12192
Books
- Bueno Nicolas, Beryl ter Haar, Nuna Zekic (eds), Utopias and Labour Law: Post-Growth and Post-Productive Approaches (Oxford University Press 2024)
- Bueno Nicolas, Le droit international de la démocratie et l’avenir des droits politiques (Berne, Paris: Staempfli, L.G.D.J. 2015), 484 p. / Law Faculty Prize, University of Lausanne
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Recht und wirtschafltiche Globalisierung
- Wirtschaft und Menchenrechte
- Arbeitsrecht und Politische Ökonomie
- Recht und Nachhaltigkeit