September has been a very fruitful month for the Graduate Institute PhD community. The following ten theses have been successfully defended:

Mr Wolfgang ALSCHNER
The americanization of investment treaties: An empirical, law-as-data investigation of state-driven change and arbitral responses (International Law)
Thesis director: Joost PAUWELYN
Committee members: Thomas SCHULTZ, Stephan SCHILL (University of Amsterdam)

Mr Jon STRANDQUIST
Exploring the constitutive dynamics of foreign policy program transfer: US paramilitary operations as grammar (International Studies)
Thesis director: David SYLVAN
Committee members: Ravinder BHAVNANI, John PADGETT (University of Chicago)

Mr Adil Hasan KHAN
Inheriting persona: Narrating the conduct of Third World international lawyers (International Studies)
Thesis co-directors: Andrea BIANCHI, Isabelle SCHULTE-TENCKHOFF
Committee members: Nico CRISH, Matthew CRAVEN (University of London)

Ms Sumon VANGCHUAY
The meaning of “substantive equality” in international law: A jurisprudential appraisal of human rights treaty practice (International Studies)
Thesis director: Vincent CHETAIL
Committee members: Andrea BIANCHI, Patrick THORNBERRY (Keele University)

Mr Emmanuel DALLE MULLE
The nationalism of the rich: Discourses and strategies of separatist parties in Catalonia, Flanders, Scotland and Padania (International Studies)
Thesis director: Andre LIEBICH
Committee members: Annabelle LITTOZ-MONNET, Anwen ELIAS (Aberystwyth University)

Mr Gregory LICKER
Le religieux au cœur du débat identitaire européen: la controverse sur les racines chrétiennes de l’Europe (International Studies)
Thesis director:  Bruno ARCIDIACONO
Committee members:  Davide RODOGNO, Antonio VARSORI (Université de Padoue)

Mr Sohaib SHAHID
Three essays on international trade (International Economics)
Thesis director: Richard BALDWIN
Committee members: Nicolas BERMAN, Patrick LOW (University of Hong Kong)

Ms Merih ANGIN
A two-level principal-agent model of IMF program design: The Turkish case (International Studies)
Thesis co-directors: Cédric DUPONT, Charles WYPLOSZ
Committee members: Liliana ANDONOVA (president), James Raymond VREELAND (Georgetown University)

Ms Céline GLUTZ
The United Nations approach to the rule of law: On the legal and normative developments of a global value (International Studies)
Thesis director: Andrea BIANCHI
Committee members: Andrew CLAPHAM, Jan WOUTERS (University of Leuven)

Mr Selahattin Selsah PASAL
Woman in Turkish household: Three essays on gender and development (Development Economics)
Thesis director: Jean-Louis ARCAND
Committee members: Martina VIARENGO, John STRAUSS (University of Southern California)