Every fall, the Pärli professorship organizes a conference on social security law as part of the "Recht aktuell" series of events at the University of Basel's Faculty of Law. The conference is primarily aimed at internships and current employment law issues are raised and explained by knowledgeable and eloquent speakers.

Upcoming event: The next conference on social insurance law will take place on 12 December 2025 and will focus on cash benefits paid by social insurers in the event of social risks. You can find the flyer with detailed information here.

Past events:

• 8. Basel Social Insurance Law Conference on Friday, December 6, 2024, Academic achievements in the event of "Impairment of physical, mental and psychological health"

• 7. Basel Social Insurance Law Conference on Friday, November 10, 2023, Clarification of facts and combating abuse
  Insured person status, certificates of (dis)ability to work, medical reports, observation, abusive benefit claims, social fraud, contribution fraud

• 6. Basel Social Insurance Law Conference on Friday, December 9, 2022, Interfaces of social insurance law
  The relationship between law and medicine, questions of evidence, coordination law, migration and administrative law, employment law
  The conference report by Laura Kunz and Michael Balmer on the 6th Basel Social Insurance Law Conference can be found here.

• 5. Basel Social Insurance Law Conference on Friday, December 3, 2021, Social insurance law between dynamics, reform and continuity
  The Covid-19 regulations and their consequences, 7th IV revision, EL reform, bridging pensions, social assistance, EO claims for maternity and paternity and care leave, ATSG and UVG, procedural issues

• 4. Basel Social Insurance Law Conference on Friday, December 4, 2020, Duties to cooperate and mitigate damages and their limits
  Duties to cooperate and mitigate damages under the ATSG, concretization in the KV, UV, IV, EL, ALV, fundamental rights limits, data protection and data issues.

• 3. Basel Social Insurance Law Conference on Friday, December 6, 2019, 09.00-17.00
  Subject: Incapacity for work - who determines it and what are the consequences? Incapacity for work under the ATSG, private insurance law and employment law. Effects on IV, UV, BV, ALV, daily allowance insurance, labor law, EL, social assistance. Coordination of academic achievements in the event of incapacity for work. The problem of partial incapacity for work.
  Conference report by Aleksandra Milosevic, MLaw

• 2. Basel Social Insurance Law Conference on Friday, December 7, 2018, 09.00 - 17.00 hrs
  Subject: Entitlement to disability insurance pensions - definition of disability, methods of clarification, interfaces with UV, BV, EL, social welfare and labor law

• 1. Basel Social Insurance Law Conference on Friday, December 1, 2017, 9.15 a.m. - 4.45 p.m
  Subject: Monitoring, but the right way - requirements for lawful monitoring by social insurers, social welfare, private insurers and employers