About the person
- April - June 2019: Research stay at the Institute for European Tort Law (ETL), Vienna.
- January - June 2015: Herbert Smith Freehills Visitor, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
- August 2015 - July 2017: Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Basel
- Since February 1, 2013: Professor (Full Professor) of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law.
- February 2012 - July 2015: Chair of the subject area Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Basel.
- August 2010: Appointment as Associate Professor of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Basel.
- HS 2008/FS 2009: Visiting professor and substitute professor in private law at the University of Zurich.
- November 2008: Received the venia docendi for private law, comparative law and private international law from the University of Basel.
- Since 2008: Lecturer for "English for Lawyers" at the Europa Institut Zurich and at the University of Zurich as part of the LL.M. program "International Business Law".
- 2005 - 2009: Attorney at Holzach Partner, Basel; 2010: Attorney at Lenz Caemmerer, Basel.
- 2004: Bar exam Canton of Basel-Stadt.
- From 2002: Various teaching assignments at the Universities of Basel and St. Gallen in the areas of the law of obligations, liability law and Anglo-American private law.
- 2002 - 2003: Traineeship at the District Court of Laufen/BL and at VISCHER Attorneys and Notaries, Basel.
- 2002: Doctorate in law (summa cum laude); awarded the Amerbach Prize of the University of Basel 2003/2004 and the Walther Hug Prize for Dissertations 2004.
- 1999 - 2001: Research associate at the chair of Prof. Ingeborg Schwenzer, Faculty of Law, University of Basel.
- From 1996: Student assistant to Prof. Frank Vischer, Basel.
- 1993 - 1998: Studies of law at the law faculties of the University of Basel and Neuchâtel; Licentiate (summa cum laude).
- 1992: Maturität type B, high school Münchenstein/BL.
- Born 1974 in Watford (England); grew up in England and Binningen; schools in England, Binningen and Münchenstein.
- Member of the committees for awarding the Science Prize of the City of Basel
- Independent member of the Board of Trustees of the BVG Guarantee Fund
- Member of the Basel-Landschaft Bar Examination Commission
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for European Tort Law (Vienna)
- President of the Joint Arbitration Commission of Swiss Post
- Fellow of the European Center of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL)
- Member of the Groupe de Recherche Européen sur la Responsabilité Civile et l'Assurance (GRERCA)
- Member of the Society for Comparative Law, Fribourg i.B.
- Member of the Swiss Association for International Law
- Member of Pro Iure, Basel
- Member of the Basler Juristenverein
- Code of Obligations
- Private international law
- Comparative law, in particular Anglo-American contract and liability law
- Medical law (doctors' law)
- CISG