Franziska Sucker

Franziska is associate professor at the School of Law, and co-assistant dean (postgraduate affairs) at the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where she teaches, researches and supervises in international trade law (since 2011). She holds a doctorate in law from the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main and serves as executive co-treasurer of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL). Prior to working in South Africa, she was a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (2006‒2010) and a legal adviser in the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GTZ/GIZ), Accra, Ghana, for the Good Governance Programme (in 2006). Franziska is co-editor (with Kholofelo Kugler) of the book 'International economic law: (southern) African perspectives and priorities' (2021).