
Christina Neier, Dr. iur., Bsc.
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Christina Neier is manager of the Center for Migration Law and Research and a postdoctoral researcher (Habilitandin) at the University of Zurich. She studied law at the Universities of Vienna and Copenhagen, as well as economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. She then worked as a research assistant at the Chair for Public Law, European Law, and International Economic Law of Prof. Matthias Oesch at the University of Zurich, where she completed her doctoral thesis on Union citizenship and EU free movement law. Her subsequent positions included serving as a legal officer at the EEA Coordination Unit of the Liechtenstein government and as a senior research fellow at the Liechtenstein Institute. She is currently writing her habilitation thesis on solidarity in the EU and in federal states, for which she received financial support through the UZH Postdoc Grant, the UZH FAN Fellowship, and the re:constitution Fellowship. As part of this project, she conducted research stays at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. She has taught or is currently teaching at the University of Zurich, the FernUni Switzerland, the University of Fribourg, and the University of Lucerne. She also serves as an managing editor of the Swiss Review of International and European Law (SRIEL).
Publications
Book
Der Kernbestandsschutz der Unionsbürgerschaft, Baden-Baden 2019, zugl. Diss Zürich 2018
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Presentations and Conferences