Samantha Besson holds the Chair Droit international des institutions at the Collège de France in Paris. She is also a Professor of Public International Law and European Law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). She served as a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Zurich, Lausanne and Lisbon and at Duke, Harvard and Pennsylvania University Law Schools, and was a Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and at the Institut d’études avancées de Nantes. She also taught in various capacities at the Hague Academy of International Law where she gave a special course in January 2020 and will be teaching the general course in July 2027. She is an associate member of the Institute of International Law and co-chair of the ILA Study Group on the International Law of Regional Organizations. Samantha Besson’s research interests lie at the intersection of general international law, European Union institutional law and political and legal philosophy, with a special focus on human rights and democratic theory. Her recent publications include Reconstructing the International Institutional Order, Inaugural Lectures of the Collège de France, OpenEdition Books/Collège de France 2021 and Due Diligence in International Law, Special Collection of the Hague Academy of International Law, Brill/Nijhoff 2023.