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.
Category Archives: Biographies of Authors – Europeanization
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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Thomas Probst
Thomas Probst is a Professor for Contracts, Private European and Comparative Law at the University of Fribourg since 2006.
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.
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.
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.
Daniel Thürer
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 the Harvard Law School. He has been Professor of Public International, European, Swiss and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Zurich from 1983 until July 2010.
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.
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.