Course instructors
Jean Zermatten
President of the Juvenile Court of the Canton of Valais from 1980 to 2005; founder and Director of the International Institute for the Rights of the Child (IDE) in Sion (1995–2014); lecturer at the University of Fribourg (Faculty of Law) and at the Interf…
Philip D. Jaffé
Philip D. Jaffé is Professor Emeritus at the University of Geneva. He co founded its Interfaculty Centre for Children’s Rights and directed it from 2008 to 2019. In 2018, he was elected to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, and he is…
Michelle Cottier
Michelle Cottier has been a Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva since 2015 and has served as Director of the Centre for Legislative Studies, Techniques and Evaluation (CETEL) since 2019. Her areas of specialization include fam…
Thomas Gabriel
Thomas Gabriel, professeur pour l'enfance, la jeunesse et la famille, depuis 2015 directeur de l'Institut de l'enfance, de la jeunesse et de la famille au département du travail social de la Haute école des sciences appliquées de Zurich (ZHAW). Entre 2009…
Ersilia Gianella
Ersilia Gianella, docteure en droit et titulaire du brevet d’avocat, travaille dans le domaine de la protection de l’enfant et de l’adulte au Tessin depuis 2014. Elle a travaillé d’abord comme inspectrice auprès de l’Autorité de surveillance sur les APEA …
Roberta Ruggiero
Dr. Roberta Ruggiero is Director of the Children’s Rights Academy and Academic Coordinator of the Children’s Rights European Academic Network (CREAN) at the Interfaculty Centre for Children’s Rights (CIDE) of the University of Geneva. Her publications and…
Zoë Moody
Zoë Moody is a Professor at the “Haute école pédagogique du Valais” (HEP VS) and a researcher at the Interfaculty Centre for Children’s Rights at the University of Geneva. Her work focuses on the psychosocial development of children and adolescents in the…
