About the person
Personal details
Born on October 18, 1972 in Uznach (SG), citizen of Diepoldsau-Schmitter (SG) and Reute (AR), married, two children (born 2011 and 2013).
Appointment
| since 2023 | Substitute judge of the Constitutional Court of the Principality of Liechtenstein |
| since 2019 | Substitute judge at the Court of Justice of the Canton of Aargau |
| since 2014 | Member of the Board of Directors of Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe BVB |
| since 2013 | Judge at the Court of Appeal of the Canton of Basel-Stadt (2013-2016 substitute judge, since 2016 part-time judge) |
| since 2007 | Professor of public law, in particular administrative law and public procedural law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel |
| 2006 to 2007 | Assistant lecturer in public law at the Universities of Lucerne and Zurich |
| 2005 to 2006 | Legal administrative assistant (court clerk) at the Administrative Court of the Canton of Zurich |
| 2005 | Research associate of Prof. Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale Law School, New Haven/USA |
| 2003 to 2004 | Assistant lecturer in constitutional law at the Institute for Business and Regional Economics at the higher education institution for economics, Lucerne |
| 2002 to 2004 | Research associate, senior resident and assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lucerne (Chair of Prof. Dr. Helen Keller) |
| 2001 to 2002 | Research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg/Germany |
| 2000 to 2001 | Research stay at the Collegium Helvetium of the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich |
| 1998 to 2000 | Research associate at the Institute for Public International Law and Foreign Constitutional Law at the University of Zurich (Chair of Prof. Dr. Walter Haller) |
Training
| 2012 | Awarded the venia docendi for public law and international environmental law by the University of Basel |
| 2006 | Admission as Attorney and Counselor at Law in the US State of New York |
| 2004 to 2005 | LL.M. studies at the Yale Law School in New Haven/USA |
| 2004 | Doctorate (Dr. iur.) at the University of Zurich (summa cum laude; received an annual prize from the University of Zurich) |
| 1992 to 1998 | Studies of law at the University of Zurich (summa cum laude) |
| 1992 | Maturität type B, cantonal school Wattwil (SG) |
Functions
university:
current:
- Chair of the Senate of the University of Basel (since 2019)
- Member of the Quality Commission of the University of Basel (since 2019)
- Chair of the "Public Law" subject area of the Faculty of Law at the University of Basel (since 2019)
- Member of the Faculty Committee of the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel (since 2017; 2017-2019 Chairwoman)
- Member of the Presindent's Conferences of the University of Basel (since 2017)
- Member of the Senate of the University of Basel (since 2017)
- Member of the Faculty Evaluation Working Group (since 2013)
formerly:
- Member of a search committee in public law (2023)
- Chair of a promotion committee in public law (2023)
- Member of a search committee in public law with a focal area of life sciences law (2021-2023)
- Chair of a promotion committee in public law (2021-2022)
- Member of a search committee in public law with a focal area of European law (2020-2022)
- Chair of a promotion committee in public law (2020-2021)
- Member of the ESP committees 2022-2025 of the Faculty of Law (2019-2021; 2019 Chair)
- Chair of a search committee in private law with a focal area of life sciences law and intellectual property law (2019-2020)
- Chair of a search committee in private law with a focal area of commercial and corporate law and private commercial law (2018-2020)
- Member of the university ad hoc committees on how to proceed in cases of sexual harassment (2019)
- Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Basel (2017-2019)
- Chairwoman of the Faculty Assembly of the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel (2017-2019)
- Chairwoman of the Curriculum and Examination Committees of the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel (2017-2019)
- Member of the university working group on integrity (2019)
- Member of a search committee in tax law (2018-2019)
- Equal Opportunity Commissioner of the Faculty of Law and member of the University of Basel's Diversity Committee (2013-2019)
- Chairwoman of the crèche commission of the University of Basel (2013-2019)
- Member of a search committee in public law (2017-2018)
- Co-chair of the faculty working group "MA Reform" (2012-2018)
- Chair of a committee for the award of a titular professorship (2017)
- Member of the "Incentive systems" working group (appointed by the President's Boards; 2016)
- Member of the support group for the survey "Framework for studies, appointments and family" (2015-2016)
- Member of the committees for the development and structural plan of the Faculty of Law 2018 (2014-2016)
- Chair of a search committee in private law (2014-2015)
- Mentor in the antelope career program (2013-2015)
- Member of a search committee in international law (2013-2014)
- Chair of a search committee in criminal law (2013-2014)
- Member of a search committee in public law (2012-2014)
- Mentor in the trifaculty mentoring program dissplus (2008-2013)
- Member of the faculty working group "Visibility" (2012-2013)
- Member of the working group "Categories, evaluations, promotions and classification of professors" (appointed by the President's Boards; 2008-2012)
extramural:
current:
- Substitute judge of the Constitutional Court of the Principality of Liechtenstein (since 2024)
- Member of the Federal Committee for Air Hygiene (extra-parliamentary committee of the Federal Council, elected by the members of the Federal Council; since 2024)
- Member of the Advocate Examination Authority of the Canton of Basel-Stadt (since 2023)
- Mentor at the Swiss Study Foundation (since 2021)
- Member of the editorial board of the Schweizerisches Zentralblatt für Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht (since 2021)
- Member of the academic advisory board of the German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer (FÖV) (since 2019)
- Member of the Board of the Basel Lawyers' Association (since 2019)
- Substitute judge at the Court of Justice of the Canton of Aargau (since 2019)
- Member of the editorial team of the Basler Juristische Mitteilungen (BJM; since 2017)
- Member of the Council for Spatial Planning (ROR; extra-parliamentary committee of the Federal Council, elected by the Federal Council; since 2016)
- President of the Board of Trustees of the Ernst and Anna Landsberg Memorial Foundation (member since 2015, President of the Board of Trustees since 2017)
- Member of the Board of Directors of Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe BVB (since 2014)
- part-time judge at the Court of Appeal of the Canton of Basel-Stadt (since 2013)
- Member of the expert group on spatial planning law (since 2013)
- Member of the editorial committee of the Association for Environmental Law (since 2013)
- Co-editor of the journal "recht" (since 2012)
- Reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation (since 2007)
formerly:
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Swiss Academic Society for Environmental Research and Ecology (saguf; 2015-2023)
- Mentor in the Réseau romand de mentoring pour femmes (2021-2022)
- Member of the Executive Board of the Foundation for the continuing education of Swiss judges (2013-2019)
- Member of the support group of the project "Code of Conduct for the Prevention of Misuse of Biological Research" of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT; 2015-2016)
- Co-worker on the editorial board of the journal AJP (2011-2013)
- Member of the board of the Association for Environmental Law (2006-2009)
Memberships
- Association of German Constitutional Law Professors e.V.
- Association for Environmental Law
- Swiss Lawyers' Association
- Humanrights.ch / MERS
- American and New York Bar Association
- Pro Iure, Basel
- Basel Lawyers' Association
- Alumni organizations of the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich, Yale Law School, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg) and the Collegium Helveticum of ETH Zurich
- Constitutional and administrative law
- Public procedural law
- Environmental law
- Site planning and construction law
- Comparative law in public law
