Administrative Assistance
Sun-Mi Shin
Tel: +41 61 207 25 63
E-Mai: Lstschefer-ius@unibas.ch
Location: Directions
About the person
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)
- Constitutional law (esp. fundamental rights and comparative constitutional law)
- International human rights protection
- Constitutional law and constitutional theory
- Administrative law
- Disability equality law
Team
Links
Independent investigations by the Canton of Basel-Stadt cantonal police
Conference for the rights of people with disabilities 2024
