International Law and Diplomacy

You will have a unique opportunity to visit the United Nations, the World Trade Organisation, the World Intellectual Property Organisation, the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent and others.

The Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva, opened in November 2001, possesses one of the world’s most prestigious watch collections.

About 2,500 timepieces, jewels and portrait miniatures on enamel invite visitors on a fabulous journey through five centuries of Geneva, Swiss and European watchmaking and offer a panoramic overview of Patek Philippe production since 1839.

© Photos: Patek Philippe

Byron, Dostoevsky, Karamzin, Andersen, Hugo, Rousseau, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Hemingway, Romain Rolland, Miles Davis and other famous musicians and writers loved to vacation on the Swiss Riviera. And Vladimir Nabokov, Charlie Chaplin, and Freddie Mercury spent the last years of their lives here.

For more than a century Switzerland has enjoyed the status of the capital of international sport. Since 1915, Lausanne has been home to the International Olympic Committee, developing dozens of sports. FIFA and IIHF are based in Zurich and UEFA in Nyon.

Lausanne is also home to the headquarters of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

The program includes lectures by foreign law professors, representatives of international organizations such as the United Nations, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the World Trade Organization, as well as practicing lawyers from Swiss banks and law firm partners.