Désirée Klingler

Désirée Klingler is an LL.M. Candidate at Yale Law School (2020) and a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (2018-2020). She holds a Master and Bachelor of Law from the University of Zurich (2011 and 2012 respectively) and an LL.M. in Corporate and Financial Law from the University of Hong Kong (2013). Désirée’s research interests are in the economic analysis of law (law & economics), with a focus on public procurement, administrative and competition law, in theory of law and political economy. Her Ph.D. thesis analyzes and measures the efficiency and fairness of the Swiss, EU and U.S. public procurement regulations and is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her most recent research interests are the legal & macroeconomic analysis of public procurement, and agency decision making. During her research stay at Yale Law School, Désirée was editor of the Yale Journal of Regulation (2019) and is a current member of the Thurman Arnold Project on antitrust law and big tech. Before starting her Ph.D. degree, Désirée was a public sector consultant (2016-2018) and a law clerk at the Swiss Federal Administrative Court, working on cases in public procurement, antitrust and financial market law (2013-2014).