Simone Peter joined the project on constitutionalism in September 2006. Born in 1971, she studied general history and German literature and linguistics at the Universities of Basel and Rouen (F). She received her M.A. in 1999. After some years of work in the cantonal and federal administration, she took up her law studies in 2002 at the University of Basel . She received her degree in 2006 and works now as Research Assistant at the Chair of Public International Law (Prof. Dr. Anne Peters).