About the Person
Born on 18. October 1972 in Uznach (SG), citizen of Diepoldsau-Schmitter (SG) and Reute (AR), married, two children (born 2011 and 2013).
Work Experience
| since 2019 | Substitute judge at the judicial court 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 judge in secondary office) |
| since 2007 | Professor of public law, in particular administrative law and public procedural law at the Law Faculty of the University of Basel |
| 2006 to 2007 | Lecturer for public law at the universities of Lucerne and Zurich |
| 2005 to 2006 | Legal secretary (court clerk) at the Administrative Court of the Canton of Zurich |
| 2005 | Research assistant to Prof. Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale Law School, New Haven/USA |
| 2003 to 2004 | Lecturer for constitutional law at the Institute for Business and Regional Economics at the Lucerne School of Economics |
| 2002 to 2004 | Research assistant or senior assistant and 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 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich |
| 1998 to 2000 | Research assistant at the Institute for International and Foreign Constitutional Law at the University of Zurich (Chair of Prof. Dr. Walter Haller) |
Education
| 2012 | Awarded the venia docendi for public law and international environmental law by the University of Basel |
| 2006 | Admitted 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; reception of an annual prize from the University of Zurich) |
| 1992 to 1998 | Law studies at the University of Zurich (summa cum laude) |
| 1992 | Matura Type B, Cantonal school Wattwil (SG) |
Functions
University:
current:
- Chairwoman of Regenz of the University of Basel (since 2019)
- Member of the Rectorate Conference of the University of Basel (since 2019)
- Chairwoman of the Department of Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel (since 2019)
- Chairwoman of an appointment committee in private law with focus on life sciences law and intellectual property law (since 2019)
- Member of the ESP Commission 2022-2025 of the Faculty of Law (since 2019; 2019 Chairperson)
- Chairwoman of an appointment committee in private law with focus on commercial and corporate law and private business law (since 2018)
- Member of the Faculty Committee of the Law Faculty of the University of Basel (since 2017; 2017-2019 Chairwoman)
- Member of the Regenz of the University of Basel (since 2017)
- Member of the faculty working group on evaluation (since 2013)
previously:
- Member of the university ad hoc commission on sexual harassment cases (2019)
- Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel (2017-2019)
- Member of the Rectorate Conference of the University of Basel (2017-2019)
- Chairwoman of the Faculty Assembly of the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel (2017-2019)
- Chairperson of the Curriculum and Examination Commission of the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel (2017-2019)
- Member of the university working group Integrity (2019)
- Member of an appointment committee in tax law (2018-2019)
- Equal Opportunities Officer of the Law Faculty and Member of the Diversity Commission of the University of Basel (2013-2019)
- Chair of the Crèche Commission of the University of Basel (2013-2019)
- Member of an appointment committee in public law (2017-2018)
- Co-Chair of the MA Reform Faculty Working Group (2012-2018)
- Chairperson of a commission for the award of a titular professorship (2017)
- Member of the working group "Incentive Systems" (appointed by the rectorate; 2016)
- Member of the support group for the survey "General conditions for study, career and family" (2015-2016)
- Member of the commission for the preparation of the Development and Structural Plan of the Faculty of Law 2018 (2014-2016)
- Chairwoman of an appeals commission in private law (2014-2015)
- Activity as a mentor in the antelope career programme (2013-2015)
- Member of an identification/appointment commission in international law (2013-2014)
- Chairwoman of an appeals commission in criminal law (2013-2014)
- Member of an appointment committee in public law (2012-2014)
- Work as a mentor in the trifaculty mentoring programme dissplus (2008-2013)
- Member of the faculty working group on visibility (2012-2013)
- Member of the working group "Categories, evaluations, promotions and classification of professors" (appointed by the Rectorate; 2008-2012))
Other:
current:
- Member of the Scientific 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 Judicial Court of the Canton of Aargau (since 2019)
- Member of the editorial board of Basler Juristische Mitteilungen (BJM; since 2017)
- Member of the Council for Spatial Planning (ROR; extra-parliamentary commission of the Confederation, 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 Advisory Board of the Swiss Academic Society for Environmental Research and Ecology (saguf; since 2015)
- 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 board of the Association for Environmental Law (since 2013)
- Co-editor of the journal "recht" (since 2012)
- Consultant for the Swiss National Science Foundation (since 2007)
previously:
- Member of the Executive Board of the Foundation for the Further Training of Swiss Judges (2013-2019)
- Member of the Monitoring Group of the project "Code of Conduct for the Prevention of Misuse of Biological Research" of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT; 2015-2016)
- Editorial assistant at the magazine AJP (2011-2013)
- Member of the board of the Association for Environmental Law (2006-2009)
Memberships
- Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers e.V.
- Association for Environmental Law
- Swiss Lawyers Association
- Humanrights.ch / MERS
- American and New York Bar Association
- Pro Iure, Basel
- Basel Law Society
- Alumni organisations 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
- Spatial planning and building law
- Comparative law in public law