About the person

Personal details

  • born December 27, 1967
  • married, two sons together (born 2008 and 2014)

Training and appointments

August 2019 to January 2024Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Law Basel and member of the Faculty Executive Board
FS 2023Substitute Prof. Dr. Alexandra Jungo, University of Fribourg (Lecture on family law)
FS 2014Substitute Prof. Dr. Th. Geiser, HSG St. Gallen (practical courses in private law)
October 2013Promotion to Professor of Civil Law and Civil Procedure Law (full professor) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel
August 2013Appointment as full professor at the University of Zurich (Chair of Civil and Civil Procedure Law, 1st place on the list) declined
December 2010Associate Professor of Private Law at the University of Basel
November 2010Internship at the Osteria l'enoteca, Basel
October 2010Venia docendi for Civil Law and Civil Procedure Law (Habilitation with Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Schwenzer)
FS 2009Substitute for Prof. Dr. A. Büchler, University of Zurich (Lecture on Family Law)
SPRING SEMESTER 2007Substitute Prof. Dr. P. Breitschmid, University of Zurich (Lecture Family Law)
October 2005 to September 2010Assistant Professor ZGB University of Basel
2003 until 2005Assistant lecturer, University of Basel
January/February 2003Maternity replacement Prof. Dr. A. Rumo-Jungo, Université Fribourg ( practical courses General Introduction to Law)
2001 to 2002LL.M. in International Business Law, specialization course in Intellectual Property, Technology and Information Law, at the University of Zurich (part-time for professionals)
January 2000Partner (since 2014 consultant) at Liatowitsch & Partner, law firm, notary's office, mediation
June 1999Doctorate (Dr. iur.) (dissertation part-time for professionals; Prof. F. Hasenböhler)
January 1996Co-worker at Liatowitsch & Liatowitsch, Advokatur Notariat Mediation
December 1995Bar exam Canton Basel-Landschaft
August 1994 to December 1995associate clerk at the Administrative and Insurance Court of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft
January 1993 to June 1994various traineeships (Liatowitsch & Liatowitsch; cantonal arbitration commission for unemployment insurance Arbitration Commission for Unemployment Insurance, Administrative and Insurance Court of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft)
1987 to 1992Studies of law in Basel (elective subject public procedural and procedural law; tutor in administrative law at the chair of Prof. R. Rhinow)
1986Matura type C high school Münchenstein

Functions:

  • Center for Family Sciences, Board member and President since January 2015
  • fabe (family, couple and educational counseling), board member
  • KOKES, President of the working committee
  • Liatowitsch & Partner, law firm, notary's office, mediation, consultant
  • Pro Iure, board member
  • Organization of Swiss Family Law§Days
  • Member of the Senate of the University of Basel (since 2014)

Memberships:

Other activities:

  • external member of the FOJ expert group for the revision of the CESR
  • member of appointment committee Developmental Psychology University of Basel
  • external member of the appointment committee Chair of Private Law at the University of Zurich
  • regular reviewer for research institutions (SNSF) and private individuals
  • chair of the accreditation expert group according to HFKG (2022/23)
  • regular member of appointment committees of the law facutly University of Basel
  • external member of appointment committee Forensic Psychology University of Basel (2023/24)
  • member of the Senate of the University of Basel (as of 2014)
  • Dean of Studies of the law faculty of the University of Basel (2018 - 2024)
  • external member of appointment committee ZGB (Swiss Civil Code) University of Lausanne (2017/18)
  • member of Board of Trustees of Ernst und Anna Landsberg-Erinnerungsstiftung
  • various appointments as expert at parliamentary hearings and faculty commissions hearings
  • Marriage and divorce law
  • Family law
  • Inheritance law
  • Personal law
  • International family law
  • Civil procedure law

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