People in the doctoral program "Law in Transition"

Program management

Prof. Dr. Bijan Fateh-Moghadam, spokesperson for the program management
Prof.Dr. Ulrich G. Schroeter, Department of Private Law
Prof.Dr. Anna Petrig, Department of Public Law
Prof. Dr. Sabine Gless, Department of Criminal Law
Sven Fettback, Managing Director of the Faculty of Law
Lea Bachmann, MLaw, representative of the doctoral students
Thaissa Cristina Almeida Meira MLaw, academic coordination
Joana Maria Mösch Glaser MLaw, academic coordination
Dr. iur. Martin Reimann, administrative coordination

Doctoral students

Angela Agostino-Passerini

Angela Agostino-Passerini writes about the police questioning of the accused.

Atie Babaie

Atie Babaie is an intern at the United Nations and is doing a PhD on Alternative Dispute Resolution in climate change and sustainability disputes.

Lea Bachmann

Lea Bachmann is a doctoral candidate at the professorship of Prof. Dr. Sabine Gless. She has been writing her dissertation on the topic "Limits of criminal liability for AI systems, due diligence obligations when using artificial intelligence to prevent money laundering" since September 2023 as part of a cotutelle de thèse under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sabine Gless (University of Basel) and Prof. Dr. Katalin Ligeti (University of Luxembourg). The research project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation through a Doc.CH grant.

Michael Balmer

Michael Balmer has been writing his dissertation at Prof. Dr. Kurt Pärli's Chair of Private Social Law since March 2022. His dissertation project deals with the claims of employees of subcontractors and social insurance companies against platformized companies as contractual partners of the subcontractors. He is supported by the doctoral program "Law in Transition" with a one-year start-up scholarship.

Paula Ava Zorah Blank

Paula Blank is a research assistant at the Chair of Private Law of Prof. Dr. Peter Jung, Maître en droit. As part of her dissertation project, she is working on resolution deficiency disputes in partnership law.

Meret Cajacob

Meret Cajacob works at the Chair of Tax Law of Prof. Dr. Luzius Cavelti, LL.M., where she has been writing a doctoral thesis on the borderline between legitimate tax planning and illegitimate tax avoidance since 2021.

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Cyrill Chevalley

Cyrill Chevalley is doing his doctorate under Prof. Dr. Cordula Lötscher in the field of private law, private international law and civil procedure law.

Valentina Christen-Zihlmann

Valentina Christen-Zihlmann is writing a dissertation on the licensing of embryo donation under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Bijan Fateh-Moghadam. She is admitted to the bar of the Canton of Lucerne and works as a legal advisor in the field of data protection.

Carlos A. Cruz Carrillo

Carlos A. Cruz Carrillo is a PhD student at the University of Basel and an SNSF Doc.CH Fellow. His research explores the regulation of offshore renewable energy projects under the international law of the sea.

Janneke de Snaijer

Janneke de Snaijer works at the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law of Prof. Dr. Sabine Gless, where she has been writing a doctoral thesis on trust in robots since 2020.

Jannik Aurel Di Gallo

Jannik Di Gallo works at the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law of Prof. Dr. Sabine Gless, where he is writing a dissertation on the use of data generated by AI systems as evidence in criminal proceedings.

Sylwia Emdin

Sylwia Emdin writes her PhD thesis about corporate criminal liability for human rights abuses in global supply chains from a Swiss and Polish perspective.

Tugce Fildir

Tugce Fildir is a research assistant at the Chair of Fundamentals of Law and Life Sciences Law of Prof. Dr. Bijan Fateh-Moghadam, where she is writing a doctoral thesis on representation in medical measures (Art. 377 et seq. of the Swiss Civil Code) from the perspective of criminal law.

Philippe Hofstetter

Philippe Hofstetter is doing a PhD on digital content contracts.

Carl Jauslin

Carl Jauslin is a lawyer at the Federal Office of Justice and a doctoral student at Prof. Dr. Bijan Fateh-Moghadam's Chair of Fundamentals of Law and Life Sciences Law, where he is writing a thesis on solidarity in the philosophy of law and international law.

Aileen Rose Kreyden

Aileen Kreyden (LLM) is doing her doctorate at the Chair of Public Procedural, Constitutional and Administrative Law of Prof. Dr. Daniela Thurnherr (LL.M.). Her research focuses on terrorism and the rule of law as well as security and migration law.

Nina Langen

Nina Langen's dissertation deals with the opposing will as a prerequisite for criminal liability in the German Criminal Code and is supervised by Prof. Dr. Fateh-Moghadam. She is also working as a research assistant in criminal law revision law with Prof. Dr. Norouzi in Berlin.

Stefan Ledergerber

Stefan Ledergerber is a judge at Military Court 2 and a trainee lawyer at a law firm in Basel. He is writing a doctoral thesis with Prof. Dr. Stephan Breitenmoser on the handling of biometric data with regard to fundamental rights.

Giulia Losi

Giulia Losi is a doctoral candidate in international law, European law and public law. She is writing her doctoral thesis as part of a cotutelle de thèse (University of Milano-Bicocca and University of Basel). Her dissertation project is supervised by Prof. Irini Papanicolopulu (BA Global Professor of International Law at SOAS University of London) and Prof. Anna Petrig (Chair of International Law and Public Law at the University of Basel). The research focuses on state and corporate obligations to protect people in the context of deep-sea mining activities.

Léonie Marti

Léonie Marti is a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Chair of Public Procedural Law, Constitutional Law and Administrative Law of Prof. Dr. Daniela Thurnherr Keller, LL.M.. As part of her dissertation project, she is investigating the nudge concept and the associated challenges and perspectives from a public law perspective using the example of health promotion and prevention in Switzerland.

Thaissa Almeida Meira

Thaissa Almeida Meira works at the Chair of Public International Law and Public Law of Prof. Dr. Anna Petrig, LL.M., where she is writing a dissertation on the balancing of interests between marine scientific research and deep-sea mining exploration in the context of international maritime law. She was the holder of a one-year start-up fellowship of the doctoral program "Law in Transition" and has been an SNSF fellow since 2022.

Sylvia Anna Meyer

Sylvia Meyer works at the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law of Prof. Dr. Sabine Gless, where she is doing her doctorate on the criminal responsibility of drivers in the context of increasing driving automation.

Joana Mösch

Joana Mösch is a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Chair of European Law, International Law and Human Rights of Prof. Dr. Andreas Müller, LL.M.. As part of her dissertation project, she is investigating the rights of children in asylum and protection proceedings. She also works as a legal representative for children and young people in asylum proceedings.

Monika Molnar

Monika Molnar's dissertation deals with sovereignty issues in space (place of supply from a VAT perspective).

Mareike Sinz

Mareike Sinz works at the Chair of Public International Law and Public Law of Prof. Dr. Anna Petrig, LL.M., where she conducts comparative law research on the democratic emergence of international law.

Fabia Stöcklin

Fabia Stöcklin is a research assistant at the Chair of Private Law of Prof. Dr. Corinne Zellweger-Gutknecht. Her dissertation project deals with the introduction of trust law in Switzerland. She is supported by the doctoral program "Law in Transition" with a one-year start-up grant.

Xuedong Wang

Xuedong Wang writes his PhD thesis on the topic Solidarity and the justifying collision of duties in criminal law. An investigation with special consideration of the collision of rescue duties of doctors using the example of the "triage problem" in the Covid-19 pandemic. The legal concept of the justifying collision of duties is not always uncontroversial, both at the dogmatic level and in practice. This concerns the problem of legitimization on the one hand and the boundary between the other grounds for justification, in particular the justifiable state of emergency, and the justifying conflict of duties on the other. In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, the collision of rescue duties would not be uncommon in view of the scarcity of health resources, so the question must be raised as to how, on the one hand, doctors can be released from the dilemma situation in the legal system and, on the other hand, the consequences would not violate the difference in life value derived from constitutional law. Therefore, the doctrine of criminal law in relation to the justifying conflict of duties in a changing society must be reconsidered several times.

Christapor Yacoubian

Christapor Yacoubian is a research assistant at the Chair of Private Law, Comparative Law and Private International Law of Prof. Dr. Corinne Widmer Lüchinger, where he has been doing his doctorate on the liability of the contractual debtor in the use of digital systems since 2021. He is the academic coordinator of the doctoral program "Law in Transition".

Benedikt Zumsteg

Benedikt Zumsteg is writing a legal history dissertation under Prof. Dr. Felix Hafner on the topic of "The Frontist Initiative 1934/193", focusing on the history of the far-right Frontist movement in Switzerland in the 1930s. Since 2019, he has worked as a regular court clerk at the Civil Court of the Canton of Basel-Stadt and as secretary to the Basel-Stadt supervisory authority for debt collection, bankruptcy and inheritance matters.

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