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Professional English proofreading for University of Geneva students
Proofread my UNIGE essay. Edit my international law dissertation. Get my IR thesis proofread by a human editor who understands Geneva's international academic world — law, IR, medicine, social sciences, global health. Affordable professional proofreading Geneva students trust since 2010. AI-free. CHF pricing. 6-hour express.
Geneva's unique international academic environment — why English editing matters here more than anywhere
Why Geneva students need professional English editing
The world's most international city. One English standard — in every faculty.
Geneva is the most international city in the world by UN measure. The University of Geneva sits at the centre of a unique ecosystem — international law, IR, global health, humanitarian action. The academic English required here is not generic: it is specific to the international institutions and disciplines that define Geneva's role in the world.
For many University of Geneva students — particularly those in law, IR, and global health — English academic writing is not just a submission requirement. It is the language of their future career. A student who writes a strong thesis in clear, precise English is demonstrating the communication standard expected in UN agencies, international courts, NGOs, and multilateral institutions.
proofreadingservice.ch has been providing professional online proofreading for University of Geneva and Graduate Institute students since 2010. We understand what "international law academic English" means — not just as a genre, but in the specific register expected in Geneva submissions, treaty citations, and public international law analysis.
Services for Geneva students
Every Geneva faculty. Every document type. Specialist editors matched.
Professional English proofreading and editing matched to your UNIGE faculty and document type — from a 2,000-word IR seminar paper to a 60,000-word PhD dissertation at the Graduate Institute.
- Public international law register — "States parties", "erga omnes", "jus cogens"
- Treaty citation — Vienna Convention format and alternatives
- ICJ, ICSID, arbitral tribunal language conventions
- Human rights law, trade law, humanitarian law — specialist terminology
- IR analytical language — realism, liberalism, constructivism applied correctly
- Foreign policy analysis and multilateral institution terminology
- Quantitative and qualitative research language for IR
- Chicago and APA citation — IHEID faculty formats checked
- Chapter-by-chapter editing — submit as you write
- French→English academic transfer patterns — specialist correction
- Citation consistency — all UNIGE/IHEID faculty formats
- Individual NDA — your research fully confidential
- Public health policy language — WHO-adjacent precision
- Epidemiological research methods language
- IMRaD structure for clinical and health sciences research
- Vancouver and APA citation for health sciences
- French relative clause restructuring into English sentences
- Nominalisation correction — "the investigation of" → "investigating"
- Impersonal construction correction — "Il convient de noter que"
- Sentence length — French 40-word average → English 25-word standard
- Full NDA — unpublished international law or IR research fully protected
- Faculty-matched PhD-level editor — law, IR, medicine, social sciences
- Custom editing timeline — milestones agreed before editing begins
- Publication-standard English — journal-ready output
Editing in action — Geneva international law example
What professional international law editing looks like
A real example from a UNIGE international law dissertation on human rights treaty obligations — edited by our international law specialist. The before version is grammatically acceptable. The after version reads as international law academic English. A Geneva law professor notices the difference immediately.
Before: student draft
"The countries that signed the treaty have to follow the rules it contains. When a country doesn't do this, the human rights committee can say that there has been a violation. The committee looks at complaints from people who say their rights were not respected."
After: professional international law editing
"States parties to the treaty are bound by the obligations it enshrines. Where a state fails to comply with these obligations, the Human Rights Committee may find that a violation has occurred. The Committee examines individual communications from persons who allege that their rights have been violated."
In international law, sovereign entities are "States" — not "countries". "States parties" is the precise term for states that have ratified a treaty. "Countries that signed" signals immediately to a Geneva law examiner that the writer does not know the register.
"Bound by obligations" is the established legal formulation — not "have to follow rules." This distinction is not stylistic; it reflects the specific language of international treaty law as used in ICJ judgments, UN bodies, and Geneva faculty submissions.
"May find" is the correct verb for judicial/quasi-judicial bodies. "Violation has occurred" is the correct formulation — not "there has been a violation." Both corrections are invisible to general editors and obvious to international law specialists.
Three corrections: "people" → "persons" (formal legal term), "say" → "allege" (correct legal attribution without presupposing truth), "not respected" → "violated" (established human rights terminology). Each is standard in any Geneva human rights law submission.
Why Geneva students need international law specialists
A general proofreader would not have changed "countries that signed" to "States parties." Both are grammatically acceptable. Only an editor with international law training knows that one is correct and one signals non-specialist knowledge to every Geneva law examiner.
Many Geneva law students face two simultaneous challenges: French academic writing structures carrying into English, AND learning international law register. Our editors address both simultaneously — correcting French sentence patterns while elevating to correct IL register throughout.
Geneva law faculty and Graduate Institute examiners have read the most carefully drafted international legal English in the world — from UN treaty bodies, ICJ judgments, and ICRC publications. The bar is genuinely high. Professional specialist editing closes the gap between your research and the expression it deserves.
"States parties — not 'countries that signed.'" "Bound by obligations — not 'have to follow rules.'" Students who use our service consistently write better international law English in subsequent submissions because they understand the register corrections, not just receive them.
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What every UNIGE proofreading order includes as standard
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The process
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Most online proofreading services have never heard of IHEID. They apply general English rules to international law documents and miss "States parties" every time. Here is exactly what makes our professional proofreading Geneva students trust since 2010 different.
| Feature | proofreadingservice.ch | ProofreadingServices.com | Scribbr | Grammarly Premium |
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| Geneva & IHEID experience | ✅ Since 2010 | ❌ Not offered | ❌ Not offered | ❌ |
| International law register | ✅ Specialist editors | ❌ Not offered | ❌ Not offered | ❌ Not offered |
| French→English specialist | ✅ Geneva-specific | ❌ Not offered | ❌ Not offered | ❌ Not offered |
| 100% human — no AI | ✅ Contractual guarantee | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ AI + human hybrid | ❌ AI only |
| CHF pricing | ✅ CHF always | ❌ USD | ❌ EUR/USD | ❌ USD |
| 6-hour express, 7 days | ✅ Including UNIGE deadlines | ✅ | ❌ 12hr minimum | ✅ Instant (AI) |
| UNIGE/IHEID citation formats | ✅ IL treaty, Chicago, APA | ⚠️ Major styles only | ⚠️ Major styles only | ❌ |
| Individual NDA — thesis | ✅ All editors sign | ⚠️ Platform-level only | ✅ | ❌ Data used for AI |
| 1 free revision | ✅ 7 days — every order | ⚠️ Paid extra | ✅ | ❌ |
| Starting price | CHF 0.03/word | ~CHF 0.04–0.07/word | ~CHF 0.05–0.09/word | CHF 12/month (AI) |
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Your Geneva specialist editors
Faculty-matched human editors — international law, IR, medicine, social sciences
Every UNIGE and IHEID document is matched to a native English editor with a postgraduate background in your subject. Since 2010, our team has edited international law LLM dissertations, IHEID IR theses, UNIGE global health papers, and social science research at Geneva's standard.
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Free resources — no email required
Three free guides — from our Geneva specialist editors
Practical resources created by our Geneva-specialist editors. Useful for international law, IR, and global health students at UNIGE and IHEID. Download instantly, completely free.
Written by our international law specialist editors — the specific register requirements for UNIGE Faculty of Law and Graduate Institute legal research submissions. The vocabulary, verb choices, and citation conventions Geneva law examiners expect.
- "States parties" not "countries" — and 30 more IL register corrections
- Treaty citation — Vienna Convention format and UN document identifiers
- ICJ, ICSID, arbitral tribunal — correct attribution verbs
- Human rights, trade law, IHL — discipline-specific terminology
- Before/after examples from real UNIGE LLM submissions
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Written by our French→English specialist editors — the ten structural differences between French and English academic writing that Geneva francophone students need to understand. Geneva-specific examples from UNIGE and IHEID submissions.
- French relative clause restructuring — the most common Geneva error
- "Il convient de noter que" → correct English academic equivalents
- Sentence length — French 40-word average vs English 25-word standard
- Nominalisation correction — heavy French nouns → verbs in English
- Real before/after examples from UNIGE IR and law dissertations
Used by 320+ Geneva francophone students · No email needed
The 22-point checklist our Geneva specialist editors run through before signing off on any UNIGE or IHEID document — covering academic register, citation consistency, French→English patterns, and the specific conventions of Geneva international academic submissions.
- International law register — 8 specific IL vocabulary checkpoints
- FR→English patterns — 5 most common Geneva student errors
- Citation consistency — UNIGE law, IHEID Chicago, UNIGE medicine
- Abstract — research question, method, findings all stated
- +9 more universal academic writing checkpoints
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