Professor of constitutional and administrative law

Prof. Dr. iur. Markus Schefer LL.M

Peter Merian-Weg 8 4052 Basel, Switzerland Tel: +41 61 207 25 13 E-Mail: markus.schefer@unibas.ch

Administrative Assistance
Sun-Mi Shin

Tel: +41 61 207 25 63
E-Mai: Lstschefer-ius@unibas.ch
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Prof. Dr. iur. Markus Schefer, LL.M. - Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law

since 2001	Full professor of constitutional and administrative law at the University of Basel
2015/2016	Visiting researcher at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
2013 - 2015	Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Basel
2010	Visiting Professor at the National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Cochin, India
2008 - 2010	Assistant lecturer for federal constitutional law at the University of St. Gallen
2003 - 2009	Faculty member of the Paris Institute at Tulane University Law School, New Orleans, U.S.A.
2003 - 2004	Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Basel
2001	Habilitation at the University of Bern, venia docendi for public law, comparative constitutional law and legal methodology
2000 - 2001	Assistant lecturer in public law at the University of Basel
1998 - 2000	Scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation for a habilitation project
1995	Doctorate (Dr. iur.) at the University of Berne (summa cum laude)
1993 - 1998	Research associates/senior resident at the Department of Public Law at the University of Berne, Chair of Prof. Jörg Paul Müller
1992 - 1993	Studies at the University of California at Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall) and at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. (LL.M.)
1992	Professor Heinrich Kronstein Foundation Scholarship
1988/89 and 1991/92	Student assistants/research associate at the Department of Public Law at the University of Bern, Chair of Prof. Jörg Paul Müller
1985 - 1990	Studies of law at the University of Berne (Licentiate)

President of Transparency International Switzerland (since 06/2020)
Member of the expert panel "Strategic Litigation", Inclusion Handicap (since 2020)
Member of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2019 - 2022, 2023 - 2026)
Member of the Institute Council of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne (2001 - 2017; 2020 - 2022)
Member of the supervisory body in the area of state security, Canton of Basel-Stadt (since 2010)
Editor of the online journal "Jusletter" in the field of constitutional law (since 2005)
Co-editor of the publication "Recht und Politik", Canton of Basel-Landschaft (since 2004)
Member of the Federal Ethics Committee for Non-Human Biotechnology (2003 - 2011)