Professor of Public Law with a focal area of Life Sciences Law

Prof. Dr. iur. Nils Schaks

Peter Merian-Weg 8
4052 Basel, Switzerland

Tel: +41 61 207 69 60
E-Mail: nils.schaks@unibas.ch

Administrative Assistance
Sigrid Hoffmann

Since 02/ 2024	Professor of Public Law with a focus on life sciences law at the Law Faculty of the University of Basel, Switzerland.
04/2021	Habilitation at “Freie Universität (FU) Berlin” and award of the permission to teach (Lehrbefugnis) public law, including European law, social and health law as well as comparative law.
09/2015 - 01/2024	Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor) of public law at the University of Mannheim, Germany.
05/2011 - 08/2015	Research assistant at the „Universitätsrepetitorium” for Public Law and at the Chair of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Public Commercial Law, Social Law (Professor Sodan), Department of Law, FU Berlin, Germany.
05/2010 - 08/2011	Research Assistant at „Deutsches Institut für Gesundheitsrecht“, Berlin, Germany.
12/2009 - 03/2010	Bayer Healthcare AG, Secondment at the Law Department, Leverkusen, Germany.
05/2008 - 03/2010	Rechtsanwalt (Attorney at Law) at Clifford Chance, Düsseldorf, Germany.
06/2007	Doctorate at the “Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft“ (Departement of Law) of the FU Berlin, Germany.
02/2006 - 02/2008	Rechtsreferendariat (legal traineeship) in Berlin and “Zweites Staatsexamen” (Second State Examination).
10/1998 - 01/2004	Law studies at the Universität of Potsdam, the Université Paris X-Nanterre (licence en droit) and the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany “Erstes Staatsexamen” (First State Examination).