Karin Byland

Karin Byland is project leader at the University of Bern on the research project “Assessing legal research in Switzerland”. The project is funded by the Rectors' Conference of Swiss Universities (swissuniversities). The empirical and exploratory study focuses on procedures, evaluation methods and quality criteria for the general assessment of the scientific quality of legal research, in an international comparative perspective. Prior to that, she was a teaching and research assistant at the law faculty of the University of Geneva. She earned her Master’s degree in political science from the University of Geneva. Her doctoral research focuses on the impact of courts on the implementation of public policies. Her research interests include research evaluation, quality in legal research, knowledge production processes and qualitative and quantitative assessment methods.