Raphaela Cueni (*1988) is Assistant Professor of Administrative Law at the University of St Gallen. Previously, she worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the University of Basel. Her research and teaching activities focus on Swiss and comparative constitutional law, in particular in the field of fundamental rights and human rights and media law. Her academic work has led Raphaela Cueni to universities in Switzerland and abroad, where she has worked on projects to protect satire within the framework of freedom of expression, the (fundamental) legal assessment of begging prohibitions, or the constitutional regulation of abortions. A current research project is devoted to questions of transparency in Swiss constitutional law.  

Raphaela Cueni studied law at the Universities of Basel and Geneva and at Columbia University Law School. She lives in St Gallen.

Languages: German, French, English, Italian; basic knowledge of Spanish and Russian.