April - June 2019: Academic visitor at the Institute for European Tort Law (ETL), Vienna.
January - July 2015: Herbert Smith Freehills Visitor, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
August 2015 - July 2017: Head of Faculty, Faculty of Law, University of Basel.
Since 1 February 2013: Professor (Ordinaria) of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law.
February 2012 - July 2015: Head of the Department of Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Basel.
August 2010: Call to the chair (Extraordinaria) of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Basel.
HS 2008/FS 2009: Visiting professor and assistant professor in private law at the University of Zurich.
November 2008: Awarded the venia docendi for Private Law, Comparative Law and International Private Law by the University of Basel.
Since 2008 lecturer for "English for Lawyers" at the Europa Institut Zurich as well as at the University of Zurich within the LL.M. program "International Business Law".
2005 - 2009: Associate with Holzach Partner, Basel; 2010: Associate with Lenz Caemmerer, Basel.
2004: Bar exam Basel-City.
From 2002, various lectureships in the law of obliagtions and Anglo-American private law at the University of Basel and in tort law at the University of St. Gallen.
2002 - 2003: Traineeships 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 in 2003/2004 and the Walther Hug Prize for dissertations in 2004.
1999 - 2001: Research assistant to Prof. Ingeborg Schwenzer, Faculty of Law, University of Basel.
From 1996: Undergraduate research 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 Matura type B (Latin), Gymnasium Münchenstein/BL.
Born 1974 in Watford (England); grew up in England and Binningen; schools in England, Binningen and Münchenstein.
Member of the commission for the award of the Science Prize of the City of Basel
Independent member of the Foundation Board of the Swiss LOB Guarantee Fund ("Sicherheitsfond")
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 Centre 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, Freiburg i.B.
Member of the Swiss Association for International Law
Member of Pro Iure, Basel
Member of the Basel Lawyers' Association
Code of Obligations
Private International Law
Comparative law, especially Anglo-American contract and liability law
