Evelyne Schmid is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Basel. She holds a PhD in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, a Master of Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a Masters in International Relations from the University of Geneva. Between 2011 and 2014, Evelyne Schmid was a lecturer of international and European law at the University of Bangor, Wales, where her research explored how various branches of international law address, or don't address, harm and injury arising from armed violence. She previously completed a doctoral fellowship at Harvard Law School and was the project coordinator for the International Criminal Court's Legal Tools Project at TRIAL, the Swiss Association against Impunity, a board member of Amnesty International Switzerland and the researcher for the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Truth Commission Digital Collection. She is a member of the International Law Association Study Group on Due Diligence in International Law and previously the Committee on Reparations for Victims of Armed Conflict. Her recent publications include Taking Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Seriously in International Criminal Law (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Cambridge University Press, 2015) and 'Do No Harm'? Exploring the Scope of Economic and Social Rights in Transitional Justice (International Journal of Transitional Justice, with Aoife Nolan, 2014) or Distinguishing Types of 'Economic Abuses': A Three-Dimensional Model (Criminal Law Forum, 2015).
Trying individuals for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and aggression