Born in Egypt on 9 June 1933, Georges Michel Abi-Saab is Honorary Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva (having taught there from 1963 to 2000); Honorary Professor at Cairo University’s Faculty of Law; and a Member of the Institute of International Law.
Category Archives: All Authors
Maya Ackermann
Maya Ackermann studied political science at the Universities of Zurich and Bern. From 2014 to 2018 she was a Research Assistant at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bern, where she obtained her doctorate in political science in 2018. Since then she has been a Research Associate for the Swiss Alzheimer’s Association.
Felix Addor
Felix Addor read law at the University of Berne and completed his studies as a research assistant in private international law with a Ph.D. He joined the Swiss Intellectual Property Institute ((Swiss Ministry of Justice) in 1994, and in 2007 was appointed Deputy Director General, General Counsel and Director of the Legal and International Affairs Division.
Heinz Aemisegger
Heinz Aemisegger (born 1947) studied law at the University of Zurich, was admitted to the bar in Schaffhausen in 1972 and received his doctorate from the University of Zurich in 1975. After working as a legal assistant for the Swiss Association for Regional Planning, he served as justice on the High Court of the Canton of Schaffhausen from 1975 to 1987, and as part-time judge at the Federal Supreme Court from 1984 to 1987. From 1987 to 2014 he was a member of the Federal Supreme Court, which he presided over from 2003 to 2004. Since resigning as federal judge he has been a legal consultant for a major law firm. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Zurich in 2014. In his work on the bench and a legal theorist he focused in part on addressing spatially related matters (spatial planning, building law, environmental protection, etc.).
Marc Amstutz
Born: 1962
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Marc Amstutz is a tenured professor for private and commercial law as well as legal theory at the University of Fribourg’s Law Faculty.
Richard Bäumlin
Richard Bäumlin, born 9 September 1927 in Berne, retired in Erlenbach im Simmental, did his studies in jurisprudence at the Universities of Berne and Göttingen, before presenting his doctor’s thesis in Berne in 1954, where he taught as a private lecturer starting 1957.
Carl Baudenbacher
Prof. Dr. iur. h.c. Carl Baudenbacher is a Full Professor of Civil, Commercial and Business Law and the Managing Director of the Institute of European and International Business Law at the University of St. Gallen HSG. He is the President of the EFTA Court. Baudenbacher received his doctoral degree from the University of Bern in 1978 and his habilitation from the University of Zürich in 1982.
Arthur Baumgarten
Arthur Baumgarten, born 31 March 1884 in Königsberg, died 27 November 1966 in Berlin (East), was originally a German citizen, but from 1936 was also a Swiss citizen, as he married Nina Helena von Salis-Soglio. He conducted his legal and philosophical studies at the Universities of Tübingen, Geneva, Leipzig and Berlin, where he received his promotion in 1909.
Thomas Bernauer
Thomas Bernauer is a professor of political science at ETH Zurich. He and his research group are based at the Center for Comparative and International Studies, a joint institution of ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, and at ETH Zurich’s Institute for Environmental Decisions.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955) is an English computer scientist. He is best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
Samantha Besson
Samantha Besson holds a law degree from the University of Fribourg (1996), an LLM in European and Comparative Law from the University of Oxford (1998) and a Doctorate in Law from the University Fribourg (1999) and earned her post-doctoral habilitation from the University of Bern (2004). She is one of Switzerland’s most internationally recognised contemporary legal scholars.
Jean-Charles Biaudet
Jean-Charles Biaudet, born on 19 February 1910 in Montreux, died on 7 August 2000 in Cully, spent his life in Algérie and Paris until 1930. From 1932 to 1933 he was a teacher at the institution “Le Rosey” in Rolle. In 1936, he finished his studies at the University of Lausanne, and in 1940 he received his doctorate.
Susette Biber-Klemm
Susette Biber-Klemm read law and obtained her doctorate at the University of Basel. She was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Basel from 1995 to 2014, and Senior Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute. She specializes in interdisciplinary international and national environmental law and interdisciplinary law of sustainable development.
Margrith Bigler-Eggenberger
Margrith Bigler-Eggenberger was born on 14 March 1933 in Henau (today Uzwil), Canton of St. Gallen. After reading law in Geneva and Zurich she received her doctorate in 1959 in Zurich with a dissertation on criminal law, the sociological orientation of which demonstrated the importance of societal realities in her views regarding the law already at that age.
Rudolf Bindschedler
Born in 1915, Rudolf Bindschedler obtained his Law degree from the University of Zürich. After briefly working for a Zürich District Court, he was hired by the Political Department (known today as the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs) of Switzerland in 1943.
Marc Blessing
Marc Blessing studied law at the University of Zurich, graduated in 1969 and obtained a doctoral degree in 1973. In 1972 he was admitted to the Zurich and Swiss Bar. Blessing has been partner of Bär & Karrer from 1979 to 2007.
Johann Jakob Blumer
Johann Jakob Blumer, born 1819, of Glarus and Schwanden (Canton of Glarus), was a historian, liberal-minded and dedicated supporter of the modern Confederation. After reading law from 1836-1840 in Lausanne and Zurich and partly abroad (Bonn and Berlin), and before his election as a federal judge in 1848, he was a judge at the civil court in Glarus. He played a key role in drafting of the new constitution as a delegate to the Diet, and in 1848 he chaired the Commission for the Determination of the Federal Seat. From 1848-1874 he represented the canton of Glarus in the Council of States, which he presided over in 1853. From 1865 he repeatedly chaired the Commission for the Revision of the Federal Constitution.
Johann Caspar Bluntschli
Johann Caspar Bluntschli was born in Zurich in 1808 into a traditional and reasonably well-off family, who owned a candle and soap factory. After being schooled in Zurich, he moved to Berlin and Bonn in order to complete his law studies and earn his doctorate degree. Here, he was taught by Friedrich Carl von Savigny, who exposed him to the German historicist school of thought, an approach that would have an important impact on Bluntschli’s own works and teachings.
Peter Böckli
Peter Böckli, J.S.D. at University of Basel (1960); Bar Exam (1962). He worked as an attorney-at-law at the law firm White & Case in New York and Paris from 1963 to 1966, as a lawyer in Basel from 1966, a partner in the law offices of Böckli Bodmer & Partners (from 1981) with the main focus on company law, capital markets law, Corporate Governance, contracts and corporate taxation.
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes has gained a wide-ranging reputation in academic circles for her contribution to international law, in such fields as the law of international organisations, international economic law and international environmental law, while at the same time being recognized for her practical work as Senior Counsel to the World Bank and as advisor to many international organizations.
Stephen Breyer
Stephen Breyer (born 1938) studied at Stanford University and at Oxford University, receiving his Bachelor of Arts from the latter. He then studied law at Harvard. In 1964 he worked as a law clerk at the US Supreme Court for Judge Arthur Goldberg. In 1973 he was Assistant Special Prosecutor in the investigation of the Watergate scandal. From 1967 to 1994 he was a professor at Harvard Law School, and a visiting professor in Sydney and Rome. He began his judicial career in 1980 at the Federal Court of Appeals for the 1st district. Since 1994 he has been a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, nominated by President Clinton.
Marcel Bridel
Marcel Bridel, born on 19 May 1898 in Clarens (Montreux), died on 11 April 1980 in Lausanne, did his studies in jurisprudence at the Universities of Lausanne and Paris, before receiving his doctorate in 1927 from the University of Lausanne.
Walther Burckhardt
Walther Burckhardt, born 19 May 1871 in Riehen, died 1 October 1939 in Berne, pursued his legal studies at the Universities of Leipzig, Neuchâtel, Berlin and Berne, where he graduated and obtained a doctorate with Eugen Huber.
Herbert Burkert
Herbert Burkert is an emeritus professor of public law and communications law at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His main fields of research are telecommunications law, media law and public law. In 2012 Herbert Burkert was appointed visiting professor at Harvard Law School and faculty fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui
Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui was born in Geneva in 1694 into a family of Italian origin. Once politically influential in Lucca, Italy, Burlamaqui’s ancestors had fled religious persecution in 1591 and found refuge in the reformed Republic of Geneva.
Mira Burri
Mira Burri received her law degree from the University of Sofia and a Master of Advanced European Studies (MAES) from the Europe Institute of the University of Basel. Her doctoral dissertation on EU competition law was awarded the Professor Walther Hug Prize (2006/2007). She completed her postdoctoral habilitation in 2015 with venia docendi for the fields of international economic law, European and international communications and media law and internet law. Mira was a Senior Fellow at the World Trade Institute at the University of Berne where she led a project on digital technologies and trade governance as part of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR): Trade Regulation. She is Senior Lecturer and Managing Director Ior internationalization at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lucerne, since April 2016. In this role she is responsible for advancing the Faculty’s internationalization strategy and expanding and improving our international academic programme, network of partner institutions and mobility opportunities for Lucerne-based and incoming students. She teaches International Law of Contemporary Media, Digital Copyright, Internet Law and International Intellectual Property Law.
Lucius Caflisch
Lucius Caflisch is a Swiss international law specialist. Between 1984 and 1990 he was the Director of the Graduate Institute in Geneva. In 1991, he became legal advisor for the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and represented Switzerland at several international conventions, for example on the banning of personnel mines and on maritime law, as well as at negotiations creating the constitution of the International Criminal Court. He also acted as judge for the principality of Liechtenstein at the European Court of Human Rights from 1998 until 2006 when he was appointed to the Geneva-based United Nations International Law Commission.
Robert Cailliau
Robert Cailliau (born 1947) is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist. Cailliau helped Tim Berners-Lee develop the World Wide Web and ran the office computing systems group of CERN from 1987 to 1989. He joined Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 in order to start the World Wide Web. Cailliau is most known for the proposal he developed with Tim Berners-Lee of a hypertext system for accessing documentation. This proposal led to the creation of the World Wide Web.
Pio Caroni
Pio Caroni, born in 1938 in Ticino (Switzerland), concluded his studies in jurisprudence at the University of Berne, after having been abroad in Germany and Italy. In 1971, he was called on the chair for legal history at the same University, where he remained for more than thirty years, and where he signed as a rector later in his academical career.
Blaise Cendrars
Frédéric-Louis Sauser (September 1, 1887 – January 21, 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.
Francois Chaudet
Born: 1946
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. François Chaudet is an Emeritus Professor of University of Lausanne Law School. He completed his legal studies in 1968 and obtained a doctorate of Law in 1972. He is currently the initial founding partner at CBWM & Partners (now “Associates”), a leading business law firm in the Lake Geneva area.
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British Conservative politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century, he served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer and an artist. He is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States.
Julian Cockbain
Julian Cockbain, Ph.D., is a Consultant European Patent Attorney based in Ghent, Belgium and Oxford, UK. After taking a degree and doctorate in chemistry at Oxford University he joined the patent and trademark law firm Dehns in London in 1979, qualifying as a UK patent attorney in 1983 and as a European Patent Attorney in 1984. He was made partner at Dehns in 1985, a position he held until becoming a consultant in 2012. He has written and prosecuted several hundred patent applications, and has published widely on patent-related matters.
Thomas Cottier, Editor and Author
Thomas Cottier, former Managing Director of the World Trade Institute and the Institute of European and International Economic Law, is a Professor emeritus of European and International Economic Law at the University of Bern. He was educated at the University of Bern and was a research fellow with Professor Jörg Paul Müller in constitutional and public international law.
Gordon A. Craig
Gordon Alexander Craig (November 13, 1913 – October 30, 2005) was a Scottish-American historian of German history and of diplomatic history.
Philippe Cullet
Philippe Cullet is Professor of International and Environmental Law at the University of London. He came to teach at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) with qualifications in law and development studies from Geneva University, London (King’s College and SOAS) and Stanford University.
Jean Darbellay
Jean Darbellay, born 1912, died 18 September 2008, promoted in 1944 at the University of Freiburg im Üechtland (Switzerland), and ten years later he was nominated extraordinary professor. In 1972 he changed to the chair for public law (i.e. constitutional and administrative law), general jurisprudence and legal philosophy at the very same university and was dean of the faculty for two years, in 1958 and 1967. He was an emeritus since 1982
Denis de Rougemont
Denis de Rougemont was a writer, journalist and a staunch advocate for European Federalism (cit from Benedikt von Tscharner, Statesmen Diplomats, Political Thinkers, Pregny-Gereva, 2012, p. 307-315). (The editor expresses his gratefulness to the author for the permission to reprint this portrait).
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville was born in Paris on 29th July 1805. Tocqueville’s father was a royalist prefect from Normandy who supported the Bourbon monarchy, his great-grandfather was a liberal aristocrat killed in the French Revolution, and his mother was a devout Roman Catholic who strongly advocated a return of the Old Regime.
Emer De Vattel
Born in 1714 in the Prussian Neuchâtel, Emer de Vattel grew up in an old and traditional family. He was schooled by his father, a reverend, who later in life was ennobled by the Prussian king. As a young adult, Vattel moved to Basel in order to attend university and pursue his interests in classical and humanistic studies.
Jacques de Werra
Jacques de Werra is Professor of Contract Law and Intellectual Property Law at the Law School of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He authored a doctoral thesis in Switzerland on comparative copyright law which he completed as a visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich in 1996.
Alan Dershowiz
Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer, jurist, and political commentator. He is a prominent scholar on United States constitutional law and criminal law. He has spent most of his career at Harvard Law School where in 1967, at the age of 28, he became the youngest full professor of law in its history. He has held the Felix Frankfurter professorship there since 1993.
Karl W. Deutsch
Karl Wolfgang Deutsch born in 1912 was a Czech social and political scientist from a German-speaking family. He studied Law at the German University at Prague, where he graduated in 1934.
Mathieu Devinat
Mathieu Devinat studied law at the University of Montreal. He was admitted to the Quebec bar in 1995 and received his doctorate from the Universities of Aix-Marseille and Montreal in 2001. Since 2013 he has been full professor of Civil Law, Legal History and Legal Linguistics at the University of Sherbrooke (Province of Quebec, Canada). He is a member of the Academy for European Social Law (Salzburg).
Jens Drolshammer, Editor and Author
Jens Drolshammer was born in Switzerland in 1944 as a Swiss citizen of Norwegian and German descent. He studied Law at the University of Zurich (1964-1968). He studied in the Année d’Etudes Supérieures, University of Geneva, at the Institute for International Affairs of the University of Geneva and the Hague Academy of International Law (1969-1970).
Jean Nicolas Druey
Jean Nicolas Druey is an Emerite Professor of Civil and Business Law at the University of St. Gallen. He obtained his doctoral degree in 1966 at the University of Basel and was admitted to the bar of Basel in the same year. One year later he obtained an LL.M. at Harvard Law School.
Pierre Du Bois
Pierre Du Bois was born 1943 in Herzogenbuchsee, in the Swiss-German part of Switzerland. From 1945 to 1947 he lived in Tanger. After the death of his father he returned with his mother to Switzerland. From 1950 he attended the École Nouvelle de la Suisse Romande in Chailly, then Collège de Béthusy and Gymnase de la Cité in Lausanne, where he gained his college diploma in 1962.
Claude Du Pasquier
Claude Du Pasquier, born on 2 April 1886 in Le Havre (France), died on 23 January 1953 in Neuchâtel, obtained in 1909 a doctorate from the University of Lausanne and in 1912 he passed the lawyer’s examinations.
Alfred Dufour
Alfred Dufour, born on 3 December 1938 in Zurich, accomplished his studies at the Universities of Geneva, Heidelberg and Freiburg im Breisgau and received a master’s degree in jurisprudence and in philosophy from the University of Geneva in 1961 and 1962, respectively.
Henry Dunant
The only constants in Henry Dunant’s life were his passion for humanitarianism and the Red Cross. His life was marked with contrasts. He was born on the 8th May 1828, in Geneva, into a religious, Calvinist family that devoted itself to humanitarian and civic values. Henry Dunant developed deep religious beliefs and high morals at an early age. He then dedicated a great part of his life to religious activities. He became a member of the League of Alms whose goal was to offer material comfort to the poor, sick and those in need. He was further carrying out visits to prisons as a social worker and was for a while a full-time representative of the Young Men’s Christian Association for which he travelled to France, Belgium and Holland.
Gregor Edlin
Selected Works of the Author
Gregor Edlin: Recht und Rechtsnorm – Kritische Essays, Dissertation Universität Zürich, 1918.
Josef Egger
Josef Egger graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in Switzerland.
Willi Egloff
Willi Egloff graduated from the Universities of Zurich and Regensburg. He received his doctorate in law from the University in Zurich in 1974 and was admitted to the bar in the Canton of Zurich in 1979. His main fields of work are employment law, alien law, family law, social insurance law, media law and copyright law.
Stuart Eizenstat
Stuart Eizenstat was born on the 15th January 1943. He is a partner at Washington, D.C. law firm, Covington & Burling and senior strategist at APCO Worldwide.
Fritz Ernst
Fritz Ernst was born in 1889 in Winterthur and died on in 1958 in Zurich. He was a Swiss literary scholar and an essayist. Ernst studied German language and literature in Berlin and Zurich. In 1915 he received his doctoral degree with a dissertation on Romantic irony. From 1917 to 1947 he worked as a high school teacher at the girls’ school in Zurich. From 1943 he was Professor of Literary History at the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and from 1948 as Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Zurich.
Bardo Fassbender
Bardo Fassbender (born 1963) studied law, history and political science at the University of Bonn and Yale Law School. He received his doctorate and post-doctoral habilitation at Humboldt University, Berlin. After teaching and researching law at Yale University, Florence, Milan, Frankfurt/Oder, Turin and Munich, he was full professor of international law at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich from 2008 – 2013, specializing in international human rights protection. Since 2013 he has been full professor of International, European and Public Law at the University of St. Gallen.
Antoine Favre
Antoine Favre was born in 1897 in Sion, Canton of Valais. After obtaining the licence ès lettres from the Sorbonne in Paris he read law at the University of Freiburg i.Ü. and Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1926 he received his doctorate in Freiburg i.Ü. After being admitted to the bar in the Canton of Valais, he worked as an attorney in Sion.
Peter Feddersen
Peter Feddersen, born on 18 January 1812 in Altona nearby Hamburg, dead on 5 July 1874 in Basel, is a very interesting figure, originated in Mecklenburg, he married an Italian woman, Esther Daverio Possenti, as his future wife.
Fritz Fleiner
Fritz Fleiner, born 24 January 1867 in Aarau, died 26 October 1937 in Ascona, received his academic education at the Universities of Zurich, Leipzig, Berlin and Paris, before he was promoted and habilitated in public law of the religion communities in 1890 and 1892, and in consequence was private lecturer and later extraordinary professor at the University of Zurich from 1892 on.
Peter Forstmoser
Peter Forstmoser (born 1943) is an emeritus professor of civil, business and capital markets law at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Daniel Frei
Prof. Dr. Daniel Frei was a native of Diepoldsau, St Gallen, Switzerland, where he was born in 1940. He studied history at the University of Zurich, where he got his PhD in 1964 with his doctorate thesis on “The promotion of Swiss national consciousness after the collapse of the Old Swiss Confederation in 1798”.
Dieter Freiburghaus
Dieter Freiburghaus grew up in Laupen close to Bern. He studied mathematics in Bern before going on to study economics and political science in St. Gallen and Berlin. Freiburghaus was a scientific collaborator at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin under the direction of Fritz W. Scharpf, where his research activities at the time mainly focused on labour markets.
Bruno Frey
Bruno S. Frey was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1941. He was Professor of Economics at the University of Constance from 1970-1977, and Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich from 1977-2012.
Albert Gallatin
Albert Gallatin was born in Geneva on the 29th of January 1761 and died in Astoria, USA, on the 12th of August 1849. He was the US Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, as well as a diplomat, banker, and ethnologist. We cite the lively portrait in Benedict von Tscharner in Inter Gentes, Statesmen, Diplomats, Political Thinkers, p. 125 ff.
Urs Gasser
Urs Gasser is Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. He is a visiting professor at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and KEIO University (Japan). Furthermore, Urs Gasser teaches at Fudan University School of Management (China). His main fields of research are information law, policy and society issues.
Geoffrey Gaultier
Geoffrey Gaultier (1927-2020) was a French intellectual property lawyer who was highly active in the AIPPI. He was the Association’s keeper of the minutes from 1966 until 1980 when he was appointed General Reporter of the Association in 1980.
Alexandra Gerber
Alexandra Gerber (born 1962) studied law at the Universities of Tübingen and Aix-en-Provence, and in 1989 passed the 2nd State Exam. From 1989 to 1994 she was a Research Associate at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne, and obtained her law degree from the University of Bern in 1993. Since 1994 she has worked as Court Clerk (Opinion Editor) and Research Associate at the Federal Supreme Court.
Christoph Germann
Christoph Germann is an attorney of law based in Geneva. In 2000, he founded the law firm Germann Avocats after having worked at international law firms (Homburger Rechtsanwälte, Zurich; Baker & McKenzie, San Francisco and Geneva) and a Swiss court for six years. He holds a Ph.D. from the Law School of the University of Berne. His doctoral dissertation focused on cultural diversity and international trade regulation (WTO agreements, UNESCO conventions and WIPO treaties) from the perspectives of intellectual property, state aid, competition and trade and culture laws and policies, with special attention to freedom of expression.
Oscar Adolf Germann
Oscar Adolf Germann, born 19 August 1889 in Frauenfeld, died 1 December 1979 in Bottmingen, followed his jurisprudential studies in Germany and Austria, before obtaining his doctorate at the University of Zurich in 1914.
François Gilliard
François Gilliard, born on 25 October 1921, died 27 November 2003, followed his studies in jurisprudence at the University of Lausanne, with semesters at the Sorbonne University in Paris (he studied with René Le Senne and Jean Hyppolite). From 1952 to 1961 he was extraordinary professor, then until 1987 ordinary professor for private law at the University of Lausanne. He was also charged by lectures on legal philosophy.
Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In the later years of his life, Gould also taught biology and evolution at New York University.
Alexandra Grazioli
Alexandra Grazioli is Director of the Lisbon Registry in the Brands and Designs Sector of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), as of 2020. Her responsibilities include the management, development and promotion of the Lisbon System and the development and execution of projects relating to geographical indications.
Robert Grimm
Robert Grimm, born 16 April 1881 in Wald (ZH), died 8 March 1858 in Berne, represented the prototype of working-class intelligence, when he learned the profession of typography and travelled to France, Austria and Italy.
Jean-François Groff
Jean-François Groff (a Swiss) graduated from the French National Institute of Telecommunications. He came to CERN and joined the so-called World Wide Web team in 1991.
Lukas Gschwend
Born: 1967
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Lukas Gschwend studied law at the University of Zurich and concluded his studies with a Master of Law. Thereafter, he worked as a research assistant at the university’s Chair for legal history and civil Law.
Paul Guggenheim
Paul Guggenheim was born in Zurich in 1899. He studied law in Geneva, Rome and then Berlin where he received his doctorate in 1924. After a stay as a section leader at the Institute for International law at the University of Kiel, Germany he settled in Geneva, where his academic career took off.
Arnold Gysin
Arnold Gysin, born 29 August 1897 in Basel, died 13 October 1980 in Lucerne, obtained his doctorate in 1923 at the University of Berne, before practicing as a lawyer in Zurich and Lucerne. From 1924 to 1934 he was a private lecturer at the University of Basel. Between 1952 and 1968 he was a federal judge at the insurance court, in the years 1960 and 1961 its president.
Peter Häberle
Peter Häberle studied law at the Universities of Tübingen, Bonn, Freiburg/Breisgau and Montpellier. He obtained his doctoral degree in 1961 with Professor Konrad Hesse in Freiburg/Breisgau. His dissertation “Die Wesensgehaltgarantie des Art. 19 Abs. 2 Grundgesetz” (1962, 3rd edition 1983) was widely recognized and discussed in the scientific community. He habilitated with a study Grundrechts-dogmatische Thesen in Freiburg/Breisgau, Topos Öeffentliches Interesse als juristisches Problem (Public interest as a legal problem), 2nd edition.
Ulrich Häfelin
Ulrich Häfelin, born on 26 March 1923, died on 2 May 2016, after having prepared his promotion with Zaccaria Giacometti in 1959 handed in his habilitation thesis on the same subject in 1961 at the University of Zurich.
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was a founding father, soldier, economist, political philosopher, one of America’s first constitutional lawyers and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
Eveline Hasler
Evelyn Hasler (born 22 March 1933) is a Swiss writer. Born in Glarus, she studied Psychology and History at the University of Fribourg and worked as a teacher in St. Gallen. She has written both novels (for adults) and children’s books. Her literary estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern. Eveline Hasler lives in Ticino.
Michael Walter Hebeisen, Editor and Author
Michael Walter Hebeisen, born on 9th January 1965, after having studied violoncello and musicology at the Conservatory of Berne, followed his studies in jurisprudence at the University of Berne, with semesters abroad at the University of Cambridge. He graduated in 1992 and received his doctorate in 1994, after having collaborated with doctor father Peter Saladin.
Andreas Heinemann
Born: 1962
Nationality: German
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Andreas Heinemann studied Law and Economics in Bonn, Hagen, Geneva, Strasbourg and Munich. Following legal clerkships in London, Stockholm, Paris and Munich, he completed the École nationale d`administration (ENA, Promotion “Condorcet”) in 1990 and 1991.
Gerard Hertig
Born: 1952 
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Gérard Hertig has been a professor of law at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich since October 1995. He was previously a professor of Administrative Law at the University of Geneva Law School and director of its Centre d’Etudes Juridiques Européennes (1987-1995).
Carl Hilty
Carl Hilty, born on 28 February 1833 in Grabs, dead on 12 October 1909 in Clarens, studied jurisprudence at the University of Göttingen (1851-1853) and graduated 1854 with a doctor’s degree from the University of Heidelberg. Afterwards, he went to Paris and London, before founding a lawyer’s chancery in Chur in Graubünden, his native Swiss canton. He was nevertheless more occupied with publishing studies of public law as well as religious and ethical essays, than with defending clients in court.
Reto M. Hilty
Reto M. Hilty is a professor (ad personam) at the University of Zurich and honorary professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich; he is a director of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich). His areas of interest are contract law, competition law, protection of intellectual property, fundamental questions of property rights and new technologies. Furthermore, Reto M. Hilty is interested in the harmonisation of international property rights.
Georg Hinderling
Hans Georg Hinderling received his doctorate in 1971 at the University of Basel, and in 1973 he also received an LL.M. of Harvard Law School. Since 1971, he is an independent advocate in Basel; he is chairman of the Swiss section (VDF) of the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations (WFDSA).
Ernst Höhn
Born: 1930
Died: 2010
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Ernst Höhn studied law at the University of Zurich. After the successful completion of his studies, he had to choose between an academic career or a career in administration. On one hand, he was impressed by the role model of his professors, Hans Nef and Max Imboden; on the other hand, he was tempted by the challenges offered by the practice. The latter gained the upper hand, and he started working for the Canton of Zurich. He held a number of positions at a court and at the public administration.
Eric Homburger
Born: 1920
Died: 2010
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Eric Homburger studied law at the universities of Geneva and Zurich and earned his Doctorate in jurisprudence with a dissertation entitled “Handels- und Gewerbefreiheit und Vertragsfreiheit” under the supervision of Professor Zaccaria Giacometti in 1948. This was followed by several years of work at the courts of Zurich, first at the Horgen District Court and, subsequently, as a clerk of the Commercial Court of the Canton of Zurich.
Joseph Hornung
The Swiss lawyer Joseph Hornung attacked Western brutality in the colonies as well as its hypocrisy in supporting intervention of oppressed Christians in Turkey was while paying no such consideration to those Africans and Asians being persecuted by colonial rule.
Beat Hotz
Born: 1948
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Beat Hotz-Hart studied economics and political science at the University of Zurich, where he also wrote his Doctorate. in 1978.
Elisabeth Hruschka
Elisabeth Hruschka, born on 6 September 1935 in Steinheim (Westfalen, Germany), has concluded her studies in jurisprudence at the Universities of Marburg, München and Freiburg im Üechtland (Switzerland). In 1961 and 1966 she passed the two stages of the German juridical state examinations, before receiving her doctorate at the University of Freiburg in 1967.
Eugen Huber
Eugen Huber, born 13 July 1849 in Oberstammheim, died 23 April 1923 in Berne, followed (among others) the lectures of Rudolf von Ihering at the University of Vienna during his studies. Rudolf Stammler and Max von Rümelin were counted among his friends.
Hans Huber
Hans Huber, born 24 May 1901 in St. Gallen, died 13 November 1987 in Muri bei Bern, followed the course of his jurisprudential studies at the Universities of Zurich and Berne, mainly with Walther Burckhardt, and obtained a doctorate in 1926. After having been secretary and later judge of the Federal Supreme Court in Lausanne, he taught public law and international law at the University of Berne, where he was chancellor in 1960. He represented the young-liberal movement and in his domain, he introduced insights of the social and political sciences as well as historical reflections into legal thinking and legislation.
Max Huber
Max Huber, born 28 December 1874 in Zurich, died 1 January 1960 in Zurich, studied jurisprudence at the Universities of Lausanne, Zurich and Berlin, where he acquired a doctorate.
Walther Hug
Born: 1898
Died: 1980
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Walther Hug studied law and economics at the universities of Zurich, Berlin and Bern. In 1924, he earned his Doctorate in jurisprudence by completing a dissertation on the law of termination with August Egger.
Claire Huguenin
Claire Huguenin is an ordinarius professor of civil, commercial and European law at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her main fields of research are contract and corporate law.
James H. Hutson
James H. Hutson received his Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 1964. He has been a member of the History Departments at Yale and William and Mary and, since 1982, has been Chief of the Library’s Manuscript Division.
Max Imboden
Max Imboden, born 19 June 1915 in St. Gallen, died 7 April 1969 in Basel, studied jurisprudence at the Universities of Geneva, Berne and Zurich, and he obtained a doctorate with his dissertation “Bundesrecht bricht kantonales Recht” (1939) with Zaccaria Giacometti.
Olivier Jacot-Guillarmod
Olivier Jacot-Guillarmod was a prominent international lawyer, a vice-director for internal affairs of the Federal Office of Justice, a law professor in Neuchâtel and a representative of Switzerland at the European Court of Human Rights and at the Council of Europe and a Justice on the Swiss Federal Tribunal.
John Jay
John Jay (12th December 1745 – 17th May 1829) was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, a founding father of the United States, and the first Chief Justice of the United States (1789–95).
André Jomini
André Jomini (born 1962) obtained his law degree from the University of Lausanne in 1985. After working as attorney in the canton of Vaud and as Court Clerk (Opinion Editor) at the Federal Supreme Court, he was appointed as justice of the Cantonal Court of Vaud in 2009, working in part in the Constitutional Law section. He also serves as judge on the Military Cassation Court, the highest instance of appeal in the military justice system, which hears cases subject to military criminal law. Continue reading
Antoine-Henri Jomini
Antoine-Henri Jomini was born in 1779 in Payerne, where his father, a notary, held various prestigious offices. From an early age, Jomini had a particularly keen interest in strategic military affaires and military history. This caused him to pass up an opportunity to become a jurist in the hopes of enrolling in a military school in the Duchy of Württemberg. This dream, however, had to yield to the political realities and revolutionary upheavals at the time. Jomini opted for becoming a merchant instead.
Werner Kägi
Werner Kägi, born on 26 August 1909 in Biel, died on 4 October 2005 in Zurich, completed his studies in jurisprudence and theology in Zurich, Berlin (with Dietrich Bonhoeffer), and London.
Walter Kälin
Walter Kälin was awarded his doctorate from the University of Bern in 1982 and received his LL.M from Harvard Law School in 1984. Since 1985 he has been professor and since 1987 full professor of constitutional and international law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bern.
Christine Kaufmann
Born: 1962
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Christine Kaufman studied law at the University of Zurich and finished her legal studies in 1987. From 1987 until 1991, she worked as an assistant for Professor Daniel Thürer, who held the Chair for public international law, European law, constitutional and administrative law. In 1990, Professor Kaufman received her Doctorate. (summa cum laude) based on a dissertation with the title: “Hunger als Rechtsproblem – völkerrechtliche Aspekte eines Rechtes auf Nahrung”.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller (born 1964) studied law at and received her doctorate from the University of Zurich. After completing her LL.M. in Bruges and research stays at Harvard Law School, the European University Institute in Florence and the Max Planck Institute for Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, she earned her post-doctoral habilitation at the University of Zurich.
Emilie Kempin-Spyri
Emilie Kempin-Spyri (born March 18, 1853 in Altstetten; died April 12, 1901 in Basel; née Spyri, married name Kempin) was the first woman in Switzerland to graduate with a law degree and to be accepted as an academic lecturer. However, as a woman she was not permitted to practice as an attorney; therefore she emigrated to New York, where she taught at a law school she established for women. Emilie Kempin-Spyri was the niece of the author Johanna Spyri.
Regina Kiener
Regina Kiener is a full Professor of Public Law at the University of Zurich. From 1982 to 1989 she studied law at the University of Bern and was admitted to the Bar of the canton of Bern in 1989. She then worked as an attorney, as a scientific assistant at the state chancellery of the Canton of Bern and at the Institute of Public Law at the University of Bern (Prof. Dr. Ulrich Zimmerli). She obtained her doctoral degree in 1994 and won the Walter Hug award for outstanding thesis with her dissertation.
Henner Kleinewefers
Born: 1942
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Henner Kleinewefers studied law and social science at the University of Cologne. He was awarded a summa cum laude Doctorate (Ph. D. oec. publ.) from the University of Zurich. Subsequently, he was involved as a research assistant for the Swiss National Science Foundation in a project entitled, “Die Geldversorgung der Schweiz” at the Swiss Institute for Banking and Finance at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) under the leadership of Professor Sandrina Ritzmann.
Alfred Kölz
Alfred Kölz went to school at the high school in the city of Solothurn. After his matura, he began to study chemical engineering at the Swiss Institute of Technology. After two semesters, he changed to law at the Universities of Zurich and Berne. In 1973 he received his doctoral degree with a thesis “Prozessmaximen im Schweizerischen Verwaltungsrecht”.
Robert Kolb
Born on 11 March 1967, Robert Kolb holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Bern, a post-graduate degree in public international law (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva), an LL.M. in law of the sea (University College, University of London), a Ph.D. in international law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and was distinguished with a venia docendi on completion of his habilitation thesis from the University of Bern.
Arnold Koller
Born: 1933
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Arnold Koller studied law at the University of St. Gallen from where he obtained his degree in 1957. He subsequently pursued doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg and received his Doctorate in 1966. He completed his habilitation in 1977 on the subject of model corporate law and engaged in post-graduate studies at the University of California, Berkely (USA).
Heinrich Koller
Heinrich Koller studied economics and social sciences at the Universities of St. Gallen, Paris and Winnipeg (1961-1966) and law at the University of Basel (1966-1970). For 3 years, he was a scientific assistant at the University of Basel, wrote his doctoral dissertation, and did the court and notary public practica in the Canton of Solothurn.
Nikolaus Kreissl
After having received his doctorate in 1970, Nikolaus Kreissl entered the administration of the Canton of Basel Stadt.
Peter V. Kunz
Born: 1965
Nationality Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Peter V. Kunz studied law and economics at the University of Berne from 1984 until 1991. Following his admission to the Bar for the Canton of Bern in 1991, he was engaged as an assistant with the Institute for Economic Law at the University of Bern until 1993, at which time he also received his Doctorate.
Raphael Lanz
Raphael Lanz is the Mayor of the City of Thun in Switzerland. He studied law at the University of Bern and was admitted to the bar of the Canton of Bern in 1995. From 1998 to 1999 with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation he studied at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. In 1999 he obtained an LL.M with the thesis “Efficient Breach of Contract and Switzerland’s Contract Law”. Lanz obtained his doctoral degree in 2000 with his dissertation “Die wirtschaftliche Betrachtungsweise im schweizerischen Zivilrecht”.
Christian Laux
Christian Laux is an attorney-at-law and was admitted to practice in Switzerland in 2004. In his daily work he focuses on matters of IT law. He has extensive experience with technology-related and e-commerce issues.
Susanne Leuzinger, Editor and Author
Susanne Leuzinger (born 1949) studied law at the University of Zurich (licentiate 1972, doctorate 1994) and was admitted to the bar of the canton of Zurich in 1974. After 20 years as an attorney in Zurich and specializing in insurance and liability law, in particular social security law, she was part-time president of the newly created Federal Appeals Commission for Accident Insurance from 1994 to 1996 (which was absorbed into the newly created Federal Administrative Court in 2007), and judge at the newly created Social Security Court of the canton of Zurich from 1995 to 1996. In 1996, she was appointed as a federal judge at the Federal Insurance Court (organizationally independent social security division of the Federal Supreme Court).
Wolf Linder
Wolf Linder studied english, political science and, in particular, law from 1963 to 1968. He worked as a lawyer in law firms, courts and administrative authorities from 1968 to 1970. From 1969 to 1975, he studied political science and wrote his dissertation at the University of Konstanz.
Peter Liver
Peter Liver, born 21 August 1902 in Flerden, died 10 September 1994 in Ittigen, first studied history at the Universities of Jena, Berlin and Zurich, before he received his doctorate in Jurisprudence from the University of Berne (1928 resp. 1931). Between 1939 and 1944 he was professor at the well-known Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, before moving to the University of Berne, where he was an academic teacher in legal history and private law.
Adolf Lüchinger
Adolf Lüchinger (1928 – 2020) studied law in Zurich and Geneva and received his doctorate from the University of Zurich in 1954. In 1957 he was admitted to the bar of the canton of Zurich and opened his own law office in Zurich in 1960. From the same year onwards, he worked part-time as a judge at the Administrative Court of the canton of Zurich. In 1968 he was appointed federal judge. He resigned from his post in 1992. In 1993 the University of Zurich awarded him an honorary doctorate.
Herbert Lüthy
Herbert Lüthy was a Swiss historian and author. He belongs with Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Jean Rudolf von Salis and Karl Schmid to the prominent personalities of intellectual life in the German speaking part of Switzerland in the second half of the twentieth century.
Michele Luminati
Michele Luminati (born 1960) studied law at the University of Zurich, where he received his doctorate in 1995 and his habilitation in 2007. Since 2004 he has been full professor of legal history and theory of law at the University of Lucerne. There he founded the Institute for Legal Foundations (lucernaiuris). Since 2008 he has also been a titular professor at the University of Zurich. From 2013 – 2016 he was director of the Istituto Svizzero in Rome, which strengthens the cultural and scientific relations between Switzerland and Italy.
James Madison
James Madison, Jr.(16th March 1751 – 28th June 1836) was an American statesman and political theorist. He is hailed as the “Father of the Constitution” for being instrumental in the drafting of the United States Constitution and as the key champion and author of the United States Bill of Rights. He was the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817). He served as a politician much of his adult life. Like other Virginia statesmen in the slave society, he was a slaveholder and part of the elite; he inherited his plantation known as Montpelier, and owned hundreds of slaves during his lifetime to cultivate tobacco and other crops.
Thomas Maissen
Thomas Maissen studied history, Latin and philosophy in Basel, Rome, and Geneva. He completed his dissertation in 1993 under the guidance of the Swiss historian Hans Rudolf Guggisberg. Afterwards, he worked as an assistant professor at the Chair for Early Modern History at the University of Potsdam.
Hans Marti
Hans Marti, born in 1896, died in 1985, concluded his studies in jurisprudence at the University of Berne in 1939 by becoming an approved advocate. Subsequently he went to the Académie de droit international in Den Haag.
Klaus Mathis
Born: 1967
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Klaus Mathis grew up in the Canton of Zug, Switzerland and studied economics and jurisprudence at the University of Zurich. He was an assistant lecturer in legal philosophy at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich and wrote a doctoral dissertation entitled, “Efficiency Instead of Justice? Searching for the Philosophical Foundations of the Economic Analysis of Law”.
René Matteotti
René Matteotti has been a Professor of Swiss, European and International Tax Law at the University in Bern since 2007 and in Zurich since 2010. He obtained an M.A at the University of Basel in 1993 and graduated from law school at the University of Bern in 1997.
Petros Mavroidis
Petros C. Mavroidis is professor of European Union and World Trade Organization (WTO) Law at the University of Neuchâtel and at Columbia Law School, New York. He is also Chair for Global and Regional Economic Law at European University Institute, Florence. He was previously a member of the Legal Affairs Division at the WTO. He is chief co-rapporteur at the American Law Institute (ALI) for the project “Principles of International Trade Law: The WTO.”
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (born 1966) is a professor of Internet governance and regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Christian J. Meier
Born: 1940
Nationality: German
Education and professional activities:
Prof. Dr. Christian J. Meier-Schatz studied law at the University of Bern and the University of California (Berkeley, California).
Heinz K. Meier
Heinz K. Meier is a native of Zurich, Switzerland, where he was born in 1929. He was a member of the so called “free church”. Heinz K. Meier was educated at the Evangelisches Lehrseminar and the University of Zurich and at the Alliance Francaise of Paris.
Louis Menand
Louis Menand (born January 21, 1952) is an American writer and academic, best known for his book The Metaphysical Club (2001), an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th and early 20th century America.
Nicolas Michel
Nicolas Michel has been a member of faculty at the Graduate Institute Geneva since 2008 and is also a Full Professor on the Faculty of Law at the University of Geneva. He has previously been the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel from 2004 to 2008.
Hans Joachim Morgenthau
Hans J. Morgenthau is credited as one of the ‘founding fathers’ of the realist school which came to dominate theoretical and practical understanding of International Politics in the 20th Century. Morgenthau was most associated with his ‘American’ works published after his move to the United States from Europe, even though he was forty at the time and had already written several books on the subjects of international law and the political relations between countries.
Gustave Moynier
Gustave Moynier was born in 1826 into an influential Genevan Family of merchants and watchmakers. At the age of twenty he relocated to Paris, due to political upheavals in Geneva at the time, and stayed there in order to complete his law studies and earn his doctorate degree. His marriage to Jeanne-Françoise Paccard gave him financial independence giving him the freedom to follow his Calvinist ideals and turn to charitable work and philanthropy.
Jörg Paul Müller
Jörg Paul Müller (born 1938) studied law and sociology at the Universities of Geneva and Bern and earned an LL.M. from Harvard. In 1971 he was admitted to the bar of the canton of Bern. In the same year he earned his post-doctoral habilitation at the University of Bern where he was a full professor for Constitutional Law, International Law and Philosophy of Law from 1971 to 2001. He also taught constitutional law, theory of state and political ethics at the universities of Freiburg i.Ü., Basel and St. Gallen and at ETH Zurich.
W. Timothy Murphy
W. Timothy Murphy is currently a reader in Law at the London School of Economics.
Peter L. Murray
Peter Murray was born in 1943 and is an authority in the fields of evidence, comparative law, trial advocacy, comparative civil procedure, and admiralty law. He started his education at Harvard College, where he studied from 1961 to 1964 and obtained an A.B degree in German.
Adolf Muschg
Adolf Muschg was born on the 13th May 1934 in Zurich the only child of the second marriage of his father Friedrich Adolf sen (1872 – 1948), primary school teacher in Zollikon close to Zurich. His mother Frieda was a nurse.
Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer
Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer is a Professor of International Law at the University of Basel. Teaching currently in the areas of WTO law and international investment law, Professor Nadakavukaren Schefer is also leading a research project on positive duties of states and non-state actors in the international legal system.
Andrea Nascimento Müller
Andrea Nascimento Müller graduated from the Graduate Institute of Advanced Studies in Geneva with a Ph.D. dissertation on the protection of traditional knowledge through geographical indications, published in 2003. A resident of Versoix in the canton of Geneva, she is acting director of a real estate company in London.
Hans Nef
Hans Nef, born on 3 November 1911 in Herisau, died on 6 January 2000, has been the son of a docent for philosophy and literature. During his studies he signed as a member of the so-called “Kampfgruppe gegen den geistigen Terror”.
Otfried Nippold
Otfried Nippold was born in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1864. He studied law at the University of Bern, University of Halle, University of Tübingen before earning his doctorate at the University of Jena in 1886. Nippold was a prominent internationalist whose work played a significant role in the development of international law. In his study of treaties in 1894 Nippold proposed that power dominated relations between states with treaties agreed to the detriment of the weaker party. The behaviour of European countries in colonies Nippold cited as a prime example of force being used to impose international law on peaceful communities.
Martha Niquille
Peter Nobel, Editor and Author
Peter Nobel studied political science at the University of St. Gallen; he graduated in 1973 with a doctoral thesis entitled “The Harmonization of Corporation Law in the European Common Market” (Dr. rer. publ.). For the following 3 years, he was engaged as a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Arthur Meier-Hayoz at the University of Zurich involved in commercial and company law and for 1 1/2 years, he was a research scholar at the University of Göttingen with Prof. Franz Wieacker focusing on legal history in the field of corporations.
Xavier Oberson
Xavier Oberson has been a Professor of Swiss and International Tax Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva since 1995. He obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Geneva in 1991 and an LL.M at Harvard Law School in 1992. Oberson is the founding and senior partner of the law firm Oberson Avocats in Geneva. The firm is mostly active in the field of taxation, domestic and international.
Matthias Oesch
Matthias Oesch is a chaired Professor at the University of Zurich in the areas of European and International Economic Public Law and was an associate in an international commercial law firm in Zurich. He studied at the University of Berne. He obtained his LL.M-law degree and passed the bar exam. He obtained his doctorate degree (summa cum laude) at the University of Berne with the topic Standards of Review in WTO Dispute Resolution (Oxford University Press, 2003).
Wilhelm Oswald
Wilhelm Oswald, born 3 March 1900 in Bünzen, died 20 October 1982 in Fribourg, started with philosophical studies at the University of Rome, and changed later to jurisprudence, studying at the Universities of Rome, Freiburg im Üechtland (Switzerland) and Zurich.
John Palfrey
John Palfrey was born in 1972 and is an American author and educator, with expertise in the field of emerging information technologies. He is the fifteenth Head of School at Phillips Academy Andover. He previously served as executive director and is a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Marion Panizzon
Marion Panizzon read law at the University of Fribourg, obtained an LLM at Duke Law School and earned a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Berne in 2004, followed by her postdoctoral habilitation in 2014. Before joining the WTI in 2005, Dr. Panizzon was a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center and at the Institute for Comparative Law, University of Lausanne.
Gloria Pasadilla
Gloria Pasadilla studied at the University of the Philippines. She holds a Master’s degree from the World Trade Institute, Berne and obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from New York University. Since graduating she has been Assistant Professor at the University of Asia and the Pacific, a Senior Research Fellow at the Philippines Institute of Development Studies and a Senior Analyst at the APEC Secretariat, Singapore.
Henry Peter
Born: 1957
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Prof. Dr. Henry Peter studied law between 1976-1979 at the University of Geneva and graduated with the degree “licence en droit”. In 1981 he was admitted to the Bar in Geneva. In 1988 he obtained his PhD degree in Geneva after having been a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley between 1983 and 1984.
Anne Peters
Anne Peters was born in Berlin in 1964. She began her graduate studies in 1984 and studied a combination of Law, Modern Greek and Spanish at the Universities of Würzburg, Lausanne, and Freiburg im Breisgau respectively.
Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann
Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann was born on 26 August 1945 in Hamburg, Germany. He studied law and economics from 1964-1970 at the Universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Freiburg (Germany), Geneva and the London School of Economics.
Michael Pfeifer
Michael Pfeifer is a senior partner of the international commercial law firm VISCHER in Basel and Zurich and a lecturer on company law at the University of St. Gallen and Basel. He studied law at the University of Basel and obtained his doctoral degree in 1978. He carried out additional studies at the University of Berlin and the University of St. Gallen, where he obtained an M.B.L in 1996.
Pascal Pichonnaz, Editor and Author
Pascal Pichonnaz, former Dean of Fribourg Faculty of Law (2014-2017), is professor for Swiss and Comparative Contract Law, European Consumer Law and Roman Law. He was educated at the University of Fribourg, where he got his PhD and his Habilitation. He took the bar exam in Fribourg (1994). He studied also at Berkeley Law (LL.M., 1997) and has spent a research year at the University of Regensburg (Germany, 1997-1998, Chair of Prof. Dr Reinhard Zimmermann), and then several months at the MPI Hamburg (2005), at Università la Sapienza (2005) and at Stellenbosh University, South Africa (2010). He has also been fellow of the Robbins Collection, Berkeley (2005).
Since 2008, he his co-founder and co-Director of the LL.M. in Business Law at the Faculty of Law of Fribourg (www.unifr.ch/ius/llm) Master of Laws in cross-cultural business practice.
Mark Pieth
Mark Pieth has been, since 1993, Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Having completed his undergraduate degree and his PhD in criminal law and criminal procedure at this university, he spent an extensive period of time abroad, most notably at the Max Planck Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology in Germany and the Cambridge Institute of Criminology in the United Kingdom. After practicing for a time as a private barrister (‘Advokat’), he returned to his alma mater to complete his post-doctoral (‘habilitation’) thesis on sanctioning and other aspects of criminology.
Bernd Pollermann
Bernd Pollermann is a German physicist. He was 30 years old when he started working as a physicist at CERN in Geneva.
Richard Posner
Born: 1939
Nationality: American
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Richard Allen Posner is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. He is the leading figure in the field of law and economics and has been recognized by the Journal of Legal Studies as the most cited legal scholar of the 20th century.
Raymond R. Probst
Raymond Probst is former Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States and Secretary of State in the Swiss Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Thomas Probst
Thomas Probst is a Professor for Contracts, Private European and Comparative Law at the University of Fribourg since 2006.
Maya Hertig Randall
Maya Hertig Randall holds a Ph.D. from the University of Fribourg, a first class LL.M. degree from the University of Cambridge and was admitted to the Geneva bar in 2002. She joined the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva as Professor of constitutional law in 2007.
William E. Rappard
William Emmanuel Rappard, born 22 April 1883 in New York, died 29 April 1858 in Bellevue, grew up in the United States of America before settling down in the Geneva area in his adolescence.
Manfred Rehbinder
Manfred Rehbinder, born on 22 March 1935 in Berlin, followed his legal studies at the Free University of Berlin. After his master’s degree, he worked for Ernst E. Hirsch for two years, before obtaining his doctorate in 1961 (see his thesis “Die öffentliche Aufgabe und rechtliche Verantwortlichkeit der Presse – Ein Beitrag zur Lehre von der Wahrnehmung berechtigter Interessen”).
Max Rheinstein
Max Rheinstein was born in 1899 in Bad Kreuznach and died on 1977, while vacationing in Bad Gastein, Austria. In World War I he served in an artillery regiment of the German army stationed on the Italian front after the collapse of the Austrian armies.
Henri Rieben
Henri Rieben was born in Epalinges in the Canton of Vaud the son of a farmer. He studied economics at the University of Lausanne where he joined the student association Valdésia. He obtained his doctor degree in 1952. In 1956 he became the first full professor on a newly instituted chair on questions of European integration, the first of its kind in Europe.
Fritz Rittner
Born: 1921
Died: 2010
Nationality: German
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Fritz Rittner began his studies in law and economics at the University of Rostock in 1940. In 1949, after the war years and time spent as a Soviet prisoner of war, he continued his studies at the University of Bonn. Professor Rittner successfully completed his 1st state examination in 1951 and his 2nd state examination in 1956. He also received his Doctorate in 1956 with a paper entitled, “Ausschliesslichkeitsbedingungen”.
Ernest-Alexandre Roguin
Ernest Roguin, born on 27 May 1851 in Yverdon-les-Bains, died on 5 May 1939 in Lausanne, followed his studies in jurisprudence at the Universities of Lausanne and Leipzig from 1869 onwards and obtained his master’s degree in 1874 by the Academy of Lausanne (which at that time has not yet been a University properly speaking and, therefore, did not have the permission to award doctorates).
Max Rümelin
Max Friedrich Gustav von Rümelin, born on 15 February 1861 in Stuttgart, died on 22 July 1931 in Tübingen, was chancellor of the University of Tübingen between 1908 and 1931, after having been nominated as a rector of the same institution already two years before and was an ordinary professor since 1895. Before being engaged in southern Germany he was already a professor for jurisprudence, roman law and civil procedural law at the Martin Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg.
Johann Jakob Rüttimann
Johann Jakob Rüttimann (17.3.1813 – 10.1.1876) was a law professor at the University of Zurich and later at the Swiss Institute of Technology, a senator for the Canton of Zurich, a member and president of the Federal Tribunal and a co-founder of Credit Suisse and a vice president of its board for many years.
Hans Ryffel
Hans Ryffel, born 27 June 1913 in Berne, died 30 September 1989 in Thun, studied from 1932 onwards both jurisprudence and philosophy at the University of Berne. In 1943 he handed in his dissertation “Das Naturrecht“ at the philosophical-historical faculty.
Peter Saladin
Peter Saladin, born 4 February 1935 in Basel, died 25 May 1997 in Berne, studied jurisprudence at the University of Basel, where he received a doctorate in 1961, being a scholar of Max Imboden.
Georges Sauser-Hall
Georges Sauser-Hall was born in 1884 in La Chaux-de -Fonds. Sauser-Hall was Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Neuchâtel (1912), chief legal officer of the Political Department in Berne (1915-1924), Professor of Civil Law, Comparative and International Private Law at the University of Geneva (1924-1954) forensic consultant and professor of the Turkish government in Istanbul (1925-1931), lecturer at the Universities of Neuchâtel and Lausanne (1954).
Erich Schanze
Born: 1942
Nationality: German
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Erich Schanze studied law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main and at the University of Edinburgh. He subsequently studied at Harvard University and received his LL.M in 1969. He received his Doctorate with a thesis about corporate law and wrote a Habilitation on international investment agreements under the direction of Hans-Joachim Mertens in Frankfurt.
Dietrich Schindler Junior
Dietrich Schindler-Kuhn (1924 – 2018) studied law in Zurich, Geneva, Paris and Harvard, and earned his post-doctoral habilitation at the University of Zurich in 1957. In parallel with and after lecturing at the University of Zurich, the University of Bonn, the University of Michigan and the Hague Academy of International Law, he was full professor for International, European, Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Zurich from 1968 to 1989.
Dietrich Schindler (senior)
Dietrich Schindler (senior), born 3 December 1890 in Zurich, died 1 January 1948 in the same town, did his legal studies at the Universities of Zurich, Leipzig and Berlin, before he presented his promotion thesis in 1916 and his habilitation thesis in Zurich. In 1936 he was nominated ordinary professor for public law (federal constitutional und administrative law) as well as for international law and legal philosophy. For a long period, he was the legal adviser of the Swiss government.
Walter R. Schluep
Born: 1928
Died: 2006
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Walter Schluep was one of the most influential Swiss lawyers of the last decades. After finishing his legal studies at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), where he gained his Doctorate in 1956 in the field of corporate law, Professor Schluep engaged in complementary legal studies at the University of Munich as well as at Harvard Law School.
Karl Schmid
Karl Schmid, who was born in Zurich on the 31st January 1907 and died on the 4th August 1974. He was a Swiss philologist, Germanist and literary scholar. He studied German and history at the University of Zurich and the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1926 to 1934. In 1934 he received his doctoral degree with Emil Ermatinger. In the years from 1931 to 1938 he worked as a high school teacher. From 1938 to 1947 he was a teacher of German and history at the Gymnasium of the Canton of Zurich.
Heinrich Schneider
Heinrich Schneider studied political science and sociology in Cleveland (Ohio). He obtained his Doctor Phil. at the University of Munich. He is an Emerite Professor for Political Science at the University of Vienna.
Thomas Schneider
Thomas Schneider (born 1972) is the deputy head of the International Affairs Service and the international information society coordinator at the Swiss Federal Office of Communication (OFCOM) in the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC). He studied history, national economics and English literature.
Anton K. Schnyder
Born: 1952
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Schnyder studied law at the University of Zurich from where he subsequently gained a PhD.
Martin Schubarth
Martin Schubarth (born 1942) studied law in Basel. In 1968, he was admitted to the bar of the canton of Basel-Stadt and in 1973 qualified as a professor of criminal law and criminal procedure at the University of Basel. From 1969 to 1983 he worked as an attorney in Basel, then from 1976 to 1980 he was a professor at the University of Bonn, and at the University of Hannover from 1980 to 1983. He was appointed as Federal Supreme Court justice in 1982. He served as Federal Supreme Court President from 1999 to 2000, resigning in 2004. He then returned to private practise, working as an attorney for a major law firm in Lausanne.
Leo Schürmann
Born: 1917
Died: 2002
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Leo Schürmann studied law at the University of Basel and obtained his Doctorate in 1939.
Rainer J. Schweizer
Rainer J. Schweizer (born 1943) is an emeritus professor of public law at the University of St. Gallen. His main fields of research are public law including European law, international law and the theory of fundamental rights.
René Schwok
René Schwok is associated with the European Institute and the Department of Political Science of the University of Geneva. He is also the holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in Political Science.
Charles Secrétan
Charles Secrétan, born on 19 January 1815 in Lausanne, died on 21 January 1895, obtained a licence in jurisprudence at the academy of Lausanne, before he went to Munich in 1835 to study with Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.
August Simonius
August Simonius, born 7 August 1885 in Basel, died 24 December 1957 in his native town, followed his legal studies at the Universities of Basel, Paris, Berlin and Leipzig, before was he promoted in 1915 in Basel, where he was ordinary professor for roman law and the law of obligations, and where he was also dean and chancellor.
Rudolf Stammler
Rudolf Stammler, born on 19 February 1856 in Alsfeld, died 25 April 1938 in Wernigerode, was an eminent representative of Neo-Kantian current of legal thought. He had studied at the Universities of Giessen and Leipzig and obtained a doctorate in 1877 based on a dissertation on “Notstand im Strafrecht”.
Ludwig Stein
Ludwig Stein, born on 12 November 1859 in Erdö-Benye (Hungary), died on 13 July 1930 in Salzburg, went to Berlin and Halle an der Saale in order to study philosophy with Eduard Zeller and Wilhelm Dilthey.
Sigrid Sterckx
Sigrid Sterckx, Ph.D., is Professor of Ethics and Political and Social Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences of Ghent University since 2011. She is a founding member of both the Bioethics Institute Ghent and the Ghent Centre for Global Studies. She lectures on theoretical and applied ethics and social and political philosophy. Her research projects focus on human tissue research and bio-banking, patenting in biomedicine and genomics, organ transplantation, neurosciences, criminal law and ethics, end-of-life decisions and global justice. She has published widely in the field.
Walter A. Stoffel
Born: 1949
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Walter Stoffel studied jurisprudence at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and procured his law degree in 1973. From 1975 until 1976, he attended Yale Law School in Connecticut, USA, where he obtained a Master of Law. In 1979, he received a Ph.D. from Yale Law School. The focus of his doctoral dissertation was on the obligations of non-discrimination in international law for Switzerland versus other countries.
Johann August Sutter
Johann August Sutter (February 15, 1803 – June 18, 1880) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the mill making team at Sutter’s Mill, and for establishing Sutter’s Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, the state’s capital. Although famous throughout California for his association with the Gold Rush, Sutter saw his business ventures fail while those of his elder son, John Augustus Sutter, Jr., were more successful.
Pierre Tercier
Professor Pierre Tercier is an Emerite Professor in Civil Law, Contract and Commercial Law at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Daniel Thürer
Daniel Thürer is an emeritus professor of public international, European and Swiss public and administrative law at the University of Zurich. Daniel Thürer received his legal education at the Universities of Zurich, St. Gallen, Geneva, Cambridge, the Max Planck Institute of Public International Law and Comparative Public Law (Heidelberg) and Harvard Law School.
Edith Tilton Penrose
Edith Tilton Penrose (1914-1996) received a Bachelor’s degree in 1936 from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1936 she married David Burton Denhardt, who died two years later in a hunting accident, leaving her with an infant son. She moved to Baltimore and took her MA and PhD under the supervision of Fritz Machlup at Johns Hopkins University.
Nathalie Tissot
Nathalie Tissot is an extraordinarius professor of intellectual property law, promotion and possession of intellectual property and of innovation. Her main fields of research are intellectual property, commercial law, new technologies and information technology law, as well as town and country planning.
Thu-Lang Tran Wasescha
Thu-Lang Tran Wasescha came to Switzerland from Vietnam. She read law at the University of Geneva, trained at a Swiss trademark office and subsequently joined the staff of the World Intellectual Property Office. From 1976 to 1986 she was Principal Legal Officer in the Industrial Property Division of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Aloïs Troller
Aloïs Troller (1906-1987) was the eminent academic and practicing Swiss intellectual property lawyer of the 20th century. He combined legal practice and theory of intellectual property law, including legal philosophy. He was a legal practitioner in Lucerne as of 1941 and Professor of Law at the University of Fribourg.
Paul Tschümperlin
Paul Tschümperlin (born 1956) studied law and received his doctorate from the University of Freiburg i.Ü. in 1984. He was admitted to the bar in the canton of Schwyz in 1986. He then worked as Court Clerk (Opinion Editor) at the Federal Supreme Court. He has been Secretary General of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court since 1991, overseeing the administration of the Federal Supreme Court. During his term on the Federal Supreme Court he has also been a member of the Military Court of Cassation since 2006 and served as its President since 2017, which is the highest instance of appeal in the military judiciary, responsible for hearing cases subject to military criminal law. His academic publications mainly concern the constitutional status of the Federal Supreme Court and court organization.
Anna Tumarkin
Anna Tumarkin, born on 16 February 1872 in Dubrowna (Belarus), died on 7 August 1951 in Muri bei Bern, was a Jewish Philosopher originating from Russia. Initially, she was educated to be a teacher in Kischinew. In 1892, she settled in Berne to perfect her philosophical studies with Ludwig Stein, who was also Jewish.
Felix Uhlmann
Felix Uhlmann (born 1969) studied law and economics in Basel and Lausanne. He received his LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in the canton of Basel-Stadt. In 2004 he earned his post-doctoral habilitation at the University of Basel, where he was Assistant Professor from 2001 to 2004. Since 2006 he has been full professor for Constitutional and Administrative Law and Legislation Theory at the University of Zurich and Director of the Centre for Legislation Theory at the University of Zurich.
Thomas S. Ulen
Born: 1946
Nationality: American
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Thomas S. Ulen received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College, a Master of Arts from St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. He holds a Swanlund Chair, one of the highest endowed titles on the Urbana-Champaign campus and is director of the College’s Program in Law and Economics.
Detlev Vagts
Detlev F. Vagts was born in Washington D.C. on the 13 February 1929 to an American mother and a father who had fled Germany during the rise of the Nazi party. He received his legal education at Harvard Law School, graduating with an LL.B. in 1951.
Arthur T. van Mehren
Arthur T. van Mehren was a world-renowned scholar in international and comparative law whose work influenced generations of lawyers across the globe. Van Mehren and his twin brother won scholarships to Harvard and Yale respectively, and Arthur van Mehren graduated phi beta kappa in 1934.
Adrian Vatter
Adrian Vatter (born 1965) studied economics and political science at the University of Bern, where he received his doctorate in political science in 1993. He then completed a post doc at the University of California at Los Angeles. After founding his own political consulting and research firm in Bern and working as Research Assistant at ETH Zurich and the University of Basel, he earned his post-doctoral habilitation at the University of Bern, where he became Assistant Professor for Policy Analysis and Evaluation in 2001. Thereafter he was a professor at the Universities of Constance (D) and Zurich from 2002, and since 2009 he has been Director of the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bern and holder of the Professorial Chair for Swiss Politics. He consults for various parliamentary bodies of the Swiss Confederation, among other clients.
Gustav Vogt
Gustav Vogt (1829 – 1901, originally from the Grand Duchy of Hesse, from 1846 officially from Erlach BE) studied law at the University of Bern, where he earned his post-doctoral habilitation in 1855. After working as an attorney, journalist and criminal prosecutor, he became Director of the Federal Statistical Bureau in 1860 and full professor of constitutional law at the University of Bern in 1862.
Hans-Ueli Vogt
Born: 1969 
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Hans-Ueli Vogt studied law at the University of Zurich and graduated in 1995. From 1996 to 1998, he was a part-time research and teaching assistant at the University of Zurich for Prof. Dr. Peter Forstmoser and Prof. Dr. Roger Zäch. In 1998, he was admitted to the bar for the canton of Zürich.
Nedim Peter Vogt
Nedim Peter Vogt was born in 1952. He studied law at the University of Zurich and obtained his doctorate in 1982. In 1983 he studied at Harvard Law School, where he obtained an LL.M degree. Vogt worked as a lawyer in New York for two years and returned to Switzerland in 1985. Following his return in 1985, he assumed a lectureship in law at the University of Zurich and from 1989 up to 2011 and was partner of the law firm Bär & Karrer.
Roland von Büren
Born: 1944
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Prof. Dr. von Büren studied law at the University of Bern, where he gained his Doctorate in 1956 titled “Part-time and temporary work as new forms of service in the Swiss law”.
Rudolf von Ihering
Rudolf von Ihering, born on 22 August 1818 in Aurich (Germany), died on 20 September 1892 in Göttingen, studied jurisprudence at the Universities of Heidelberg, München, and Göttingen, and from 1838 at the University of Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1842, and where he was a private lecturer.
Peter von Matt
Peter von Matt is an Emerite Professor of German literature at the University of Zurich. From 1957 to 1964 he studied German, anglistics and the history of art in Zurich. After graduation he worked as a teacher in the Gymnasium in Lucerne up until 1967.
Johann Anton von Tillier
Johann Anton von Tillier, born on 24 January 1792 in Berne, died on 16 February 1854 in Munich, has studied history and jurisprudence in Geneva between 1809 and 1811, before leaving Switzerland for Jena in Germany from 1811 to 1813.
Jacob Wackernagel (junior)
Jacob Wackernagel (junior), born on 2 October 1891 in Basel, died on 14 July 1967 in Santa Margherita di Pula (Sardegna), son of the famous classicist with the same name (1853-1938) has been a jurisprudent in legal history at the University of Basel. In 1956, he signed as rector of this academic institution.
Hans Peter Walter
Hans Peter Walter (born 1944) studied law at the University of Bern. In 1969 he was admitted to the bar of the canton of Bern and worked as a lawyer in Bern from 1969 to 1986. From 1982 – 1986 he was a part-time federal judge, and from 1987 – 2004 a full Federal Supreme Court justice, which he presided over in 2001/2002. After lecturing at the Universities of Zurich and Fribourg during his term as a federal judge, thereafter from 2004 to 2010 he was a full professor in the fields of private and commercial law at the University of Bern, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1997.
Rolf H. Weber, Editor and Author
Rolf H. Weber (born 1951) is a professor of civil, commercial and European law at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and a permanent visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has also been visiting professor at the University of Strasbourg (France), the University of Leuven (Belgium) and LUISS University in Rome (Italy). His main fields of research are Internet and information technology law, competition law, international business law, international financial law and international trade law.
Franz Werro
Franz Werro is a teacher and researcher in various fields of private law, including the law of obligations, European private law and comparative law at the University of Fribourg and the Georgetown University Law Center. He has been a visiting professor at Cornell Law School (Ithaca, NY), the Universita degli Studi di Trieste, the Scuola Superiore Santa Anna (Pisa), and at the universities of Geneva, Lausanne, Pau and Bordeaux. He has also been teaching for a number of years in the Tulane Summer Law Program in Paris.
Jan Widmer
Jan Widmer is general counsel for Microsoft Schweiz GmbH, Switzerland, and a member of the executive management team. He currently leads the legal and corporate affairs department that is responsible for Switzerland and Austria.
Paul Widmer
Paul Widmer was born in 1949. He studied history and philosophy at the University of Zurich and Köln. In 1977 he entered the diplomatic service of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and carried out internships in Bern and New York: first with the general consular and then with the permanent observer mission at the United Nations.
Wolfgang Wiegand
Wolfgang Wiegand studied law at the universities of Berlin and Munich (1961-1966). He was a university assistant in Munich (1966-1976). He took his bar examination in 1970 and obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Munich in 1972, where he also habilitated in Legal History, Civil Law and Civil Procedure in 1976.
Rudolf Wiethölter
Born: 1929
Nationality: German
Education and professional activities:
Professor (Emeritus) Dr. Rudolf Wiethölter started to study law at the University of Cologne in 1949 and passed the first State examination in 1952. Thereafter he studied at the College of Europe in Bruges. In 1955, he earned his Doctorate in jurisprudence by writing a dissertation with the title: “The unilateral conflict rules as the basis of private international law”. In 1956, he passed the second State examination and worked as an independent attorney-at-law.
Luzius Wildhaber
Luzius Wildhaber was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1937 and studied at the Universities of Basel, Paris, Heidelberg, London and Yale. He was the first President of the new European Court of Human Rights. Before appointment to this post in 1998, Wildhaber had a distinguished academic career, including being Rector of Basel University, but mostly as Professor in the fields of Public International, Constitutional, Comparative and Administrative Law at the Universities of Basel and Fribourg.
Daniel Wüger
Daniel Wüger studied law at the University of Bern. In 2002, he graduated from Georgetown University with a master’s degree in international commercial law. After working at the Institute for European and International Economic Law and serving as Program Manager at the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown University, he was responsible for European law and Schengen/Dublin coordination at the Federal Office of Justice of the Federal Department of Justice and Police from 2008 to 2019. Since 2019 he has been Deputy Secretary General of the Department.
Andreas Ziegler
Andreas Ziegler, born 1967, is a full professor of Public International Law at the University of Lausanne. He was educated at the University of St. Gallen where he received his doctorate in 1995 and earned his post-doctoral habilitation in 2004, having studied extensively at Sciences Po, the University of Oxford, Georgetown University, the University of New South Wales and the MPI in Heidelberg.
Jean Ziegler
Jean Ziegler has served for extended periods as independent expert for the United Nations, is honorary professor at the University of Geneva and author of numerous books.
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig (November 28, 1881 – February 22, 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most famous writers in the world.