Nathan Ehrenfreund

Institution: McGill University and University of Lausanne

Period of stay: 8 October - 25 September 2025

Contact: ne314@cam.ac.uk

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-ehrenfreund-6981a8196

Profile: 

Nathan Ehrenfreund is a visiting scholar specializing in public international law and global regulation theory. He is currently completing his doctoral degree at McGill University and the University of Lausanne, under the joint supervision of Prof. Jaye Ellis and Prof. Andreas Ziegler. He holds a bilingual bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Fribourg (french/german) and a master’s degree from the University of Lausanne.

Throughout his doctoral studies Nathan has been awarded with a Mobi.doc mobility fellowship from the University of Lausanne, a doctoral grant from the Société Académique Vaudoise, an Associate Supervisory Fellowship from McGill University, a Grad Excellence Award from McGill University as well as a doctoral scholarship from the Fonds de recherche du Québec (Québec Research Fund) (FRQ).

Research Area:

Global Regulation Theory; Law and Infrastructures; Supply Chain Regulation; Hybridity and Fragmentation

Research Title:

Normative Hybridity in the Regulation of Global Issues: from Coexistence to Coordination

Research Outline:

Nathan’s research revolves around the theorization of “normative hybridity” as a key phenomenon in the regulation of "global issues", understood as the de facto co-action of multiple normative systems in the regulation of a single global challenge. He studies the intertwined relations between non-state transnational norms and state-made law in different global regulatory regimes, focusing on the functional characteristics, interactions, complementarities and interferences between coexisting but mostly uncoordinated normative systems. He seeks to better map the phenomenon and to offer a methodological framework that should allow for a more conscious and functional grasp on the regulation of "global issues".

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