Current:

  • On August 21, 2026, the CLA Enforcement Conference will take place in Olten or online. A unique platform: competent speakers will address current subjects from the world of collective employment law in general and CLA enforcement in particular. In cooperation with the SFW, Solothurn Forum for Continuing Education and KOAMI. Further information can be found here.
  • On December 4, 2026, the 10th Basel Social Security Law Conference will take place as part of Recht aktuell. Current issues relating to the assessment of (dis)ability to work; the role of medicine, employers and the interfaces with various branches of social insurance; challenges in determining table wages, hypothetical income and the reasonableness of work. The full program and further information can be found here.

About the person

Personal details

  • born January 26, 1963
  • married, three adult children

Training and appointments (curriculum vitae as PDF)

 
Since September 2023Member of the "Commission de planification académique" of the Ecole de droit of the University of Lausanne
Since August 2023Head of the Research Center for Collective Labor Law and Participation (KOAMI)
January 2018 until August 2022Dean of Research at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel
Since February 2016Professorship for Private Social Law at the University of Basel
Since 2016Member of the Swiss Section of the International Society for Labor and Social Security Law (ISLSSL)
July 2007 to January 2016Professorships at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Management and Law, Department of Business Law, Winterthur (Head of Research Department of Business Law, Head of Center for Social Law, Lecturer in Labor, Social Security and European Law)
Since 2009Private lecturer for labor and social security law at the University of St. Gallen
November/December 2013Visiting Scholar at the "Institute for Labor Rights", UCL, London, England
2008 to 2013Member and Vice President of the Federal Committee for AIDS Issues (EKAF), from 2020: Federal Committee for Sexually Transmitted Infections (EKSI)
August/September 2009Visiting researcher at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley, United States of America
2004 to 2009Habilitation at the University of St. Gallen
March to June 2007Visiting researcher at the Faculty of Law of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
2001 to 2007Professorships at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Olten
2001 to 2006Freelance co-worker at the Research Institute for Labor and Employment Law at the University of St. Gallen
2000 to 2003Doctorate with Prof. Dr. iur. Thomas Geiser at the University of St. Gallen
1988 to 2000Social worker and lawyer in various institutions in the health and social services sector
1995 to 1999Studies of law at the University of Fribourg FR
1985 to 1988Training as a social worker at the BFH Bern

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