Faculty Profile

• Doctor iuris, Universities of Geneva and Vienna (co-tutelle), 2019
• LL.M., King’s College London, 2014
• Master of Laws, University of Geneva, 2013
• Bachelor of Laws, University of Geneva, 2011

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

• Assistant Professor of Law, Singapore Management University, Jul 2022-Present

Other Positions

• Member, Academic Forum on Investor-State Dispute Settlement, UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), 2021-Present
• Advisor, Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Foreign Direct Investment, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), 2021-Present
• Associate, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), 2020-Present
• Postdoctoral Fellow, National University of Singapore, Centre for International Law (CIL), 2021-2022
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, World Trade Institute, University of Bern, 2020-2021
• Lecturer, Swiss School for International Relations, 2019-2020
• Teaching and Research Fellow, University of Geneva, Faculty of Law, 2015-2019

Honours and Awards

• CIBEL Young Scholar Prize, 2023
• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Postdoctoral Research Grant, 2020-2021
• Ernst and Lucie Schmidheiny Foundation, Research Grant, 2013-14

Courses Taught in SMU

• Ethics and Social Responsibility
• Sustainability, Multinational Corporations and International Law

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

• Sustainable Development in International Economic Law
• International Trade and Investment Law
• Investment Arbitration
• European External Relations Law
• Climate Change and Energy Transition
• Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

Selected Publications

• Google Scholar Author Page
• Stefanie Schacherer, 'The Agility Paradigm: Rethinking Regulatory Policy Commitments in Free Trade Agreements' 2025 Journal of World Trade 59:1
• Stefanie Schacherer, 'Building Responsible and Sustainable Supply Chain Frameworks: Limits of International Investment Law and the CSR Initiatives Taken by the EU and China' (2024) 32 Asia Pacific Law Review 347
• Stefanie Schacherer, Sustainable Development in EU Foreign Investment Law, Brill’s Nijhoff International Investment Law Series, 2021, 455 p.
• Stefanie Schacherer, ‘Art. 8.9 CETA-Agreement on Investment and Regulatory Measures’, in M Bungenberg and A Reinisch (eds), EU-Canada CETA Investment Law - Article-by-Article Commentary, Hart Publishing, 2022, pp 236-255.
• Stefanie Schacherer (ed. with MM Mbengue), Foreign Investment Under the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Springer International Publishing, 2019.
• Stefanie Schacherer, ‘TPP, CETA and TTIP Between Innovation and Consolidation - Resolving Investor-State Disputes under Mega-regionals’, Journal of International Dispute Settlement, 2016 vol 7(3) pp 628-653.