Guest research stay
Are you interested in a guest stay at our faculty?
A visiting research stay can last from a few weeks to several semesters - depending on your research interests in Basel. You can apply for a guest research stay via the Research Dean's Office of the Faculty of Law. If you are accepted, you will receive an invitation letter from the Dean of Research to apply for a visa or funding.
Please complete our form and send it to the Research Dean's Office of the Faculty of Law.
Please also note the following information:
Before your stay
- The University of Basel does not charge a fee for a guest research stay.
- The faculty does not pay any contributions to living expenses or fees.
- You are responsible for organizing your accommodation and insurance.
- If you need a visa, please find out independently which documents you need. The best way to do this is to contact a Swiss representation abroad in your country.
- Health insurance is mandatory in Switzerland. All persons resident in Switzerland are subject to compulsory insurance. This also includes foreign nationals with a residence permit of at least 3 months. You can find more information on health insurance in Switzerland here.
During your stay
- You are entitled to use our library. For longer stays and if required, you can also gain access to the legal databases.
- Our library is a reference library; the holdings can only be used on site.
- As a rule, visiting researchers work at free places in our library. Information, e.g. on opening hours, can be found here.
- During the lecture-free period, our faculty is less busy. If you are interested in contact with other researchers, it is better to plan your stay during the lecture period. You can find the semester dates here: https: //www.unibas.ch/de/Studium/Termine-Fristen/Semesterdaten.html
- Further useful information for your start with us can be found here.
Juristische Fakultät
Forschungsdekanat
Peter Merian-Weg 8
Tel: +41 61 207 24 82
Visiting researchers at our faculty
Current and future guests
24.03.-16.06.2025
Home institution: Gaziantep University
Research interests: Tax law, environment and climate change and tax regulations, customs law, international trade, public finance
Perspective: The aim of my research at the University of Basel is to analyze the legal regulations in the EU and Switzerland on environmental sustainability, which is a fundamental element of sustainable development. My research will focus on environmental taxes, which are an important element of environmental protection and climate change mitigation, especially the CO2 tax and its implementation as well as the principles of applicability in Turkey will be analyzed within the legal framework.
A comprehensive assessment will be made within the international literature on environmental and climate issues and the implementation of the European Union's legally binding climate targets and strategies.
The University of Basel was selected due to its high quality academic research, qualified faculty and academic staff, research facilities and collaborative programs in relation to my research topic. These factors influenced my decision to conduct my research at this University of Basel.
01.03.2025-31.08.2025
Research interests: law of the sea, international human rights law, sustainability, international litigation
Perspective: At the University of Basel I will conduct research on the interaction of law of the sea with human rights law, with a focus on the protection of human rights on-board commercial fishing vessels. I will also finalise an impact-oriented project on the marginalisation of migrant workers in the fishing industry, and advance some of my publications in their final stage.
Local contact: Prof. Dr. Anna Petrig
22.09.2024-31.01.2025
Research interests: Law and technology, food and public health (with a particular focus on bioeconomy and international law), engineering biology, robotics and intellectual property rights
Perspective : During my stay at the Center for Life Sciences Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel, I will investigate the legal implications of cell-cultured human milk as a new nutritional alternative for previously marginalized social groups. This work builds on previous studies on the law of cultured meat, in particular my forthcoming monograph "Cellular Agriculture Law: Mapping Transformative Biotechnologies at the Frontier of Food and Science", Edinburgh University Press (2025). In particular, I will address the inevitable legal risks of the production, commercialization and accessibility of cell-cultured human milk and its potentially far-reaching implications - including the exacerbation of global structural inequalities to the detriment of nations in the Global South.
Local contact: Center for Life Sciences Law
Past
1.11.2024-15.1.2025
Home institution: Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Research focus: : International arbitration
Perspective : During my research stay at the University of Basel, I am conducting comparative law research on the recognition of credits and grades of foreign arbitral awards.
Contact on site: Office of the Dean of Research
20.07.2024-20.01.2025
Home institution: Faculty of Law, Istanbul Ticaret University
Main research interests: Commercial law, corporate law, securities law, FinTech law, arbitration law.
Perspective : During my research stay in Basel, I will examine the anchoring of arbitration clauses in the articles of association and arbitration in corporate law, a subject at the interface of corporate and civil procedural law, from a comparative law perspective.
Contact on site: Prof. Dr. Peter Jung
04.11.2024-31.01.2025
Home Institution: Piri Reis University
Main research interests: human rights, international law, and human rights at sea
Perspective: The focus of my research in Basel will be on the human rights of seafarers. In particular, I will investigate how seafarers, as one of the many groups of people at sea, are subjected to human rights violations and the potential solutions offered by international law and international human rights law in response to these violations.
Contact on site: Prof. Dr. Anna Petrig
01.02.2024-31.01.2025
Home institution: The Faculty of Law of Eskişehir Osmangazi University (Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi)
Main research areas: Family law; Property law; Matrimonial property law; Real estate in matrimonial property dispute, comparing Turkish and Swiss law
Perspective: During my research stay at the University of Basel, I am investigating the legal status of real estate in matrimonial property disputes - a topic at the interface of family and property law - comparing Turkish and Swiss law.
Contact on site: Prof. Dr. Roland Fankhauser
20.07.2024-20.08.2025
Home institution: University of Molise
Main research interests: Public Procurement and Military Industry in Europe, USA, United Arab Emirates and Italy
Perspective: All aspects regarding public and private contracts for the transfer of weapon materials (B2B, B2G, G2G) are analyzed from a comparative perspective, including the transfer of intellectual property rights on technologies. Since the researcher is also an international lawyer professionally experienced in these matters, the research will also consider practical aspects, including strategies on how to address the emergence of transnational disputes, both in international or domestic arbitration. Additionally, the work will also contemplate the geopolitical implications of the activities of the military industry, examining the possibility of a concrete harmonization of the various regulations in Europe in light of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Contact on site: Office of the Dean of Research
01.09.2023-31.08.2024
Main research interests: Issues of state secrecy, law of international organizations, protection of international underwater cultural heritage
Contact on site: Prof. Dr. Anna Petrig
Perspective: During my research stay, I am conducting comparative legal research on the handling of state secrets that have become public knowledge. I am investigating the extent to which their publication leads to them losing their status as secrets, which factors are decisive for this and which legal consequences result from this finding.
01.04-31.05.2024
Prof. Dr. Christian Hofmann is Senior Fellow at the Forum Basiliense
Home institution: National University of Singapore
Research interests: Regulation of financial institutions and markets, central banking, law and economics of money and means of payment.
Perspective: During my time in Basel, I work on issues of bank regulation, the new concept of central bank digital currency and the liability of payment services providers and payment services users for fraudulent payment transactions. I look at these topics from a comparative perspective with a strong focus on concepts and general principles.
Contact on site: Prof. Dr. Corinne Zellweger-Gutknecht
22.01.-14.06.2024
Home institution: Paris Bar School (FR) and University of Hanover (GER)
Perspective: My research stay at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel serves three purposes: To complete my post-doctoral project on dispute resolution in the international construction sector; To submit a research report to the Paris Bar School with a view to joining the Paris Bar; To finalize a presentation on the similarities between OHADA law and European law in the field of international arbitration.
Local contact: Prof. Dr. Peter Jung
05.02.-17.03.2024
Home institution: Faculty of Law of the Ruhr-University Bochum
Main research interests: International law, constitutional law and comparative law
Perspective: I am spending my research stay at the University of Basel to conduct a comparative law study on the international law friendliness of the Swiss, Austrian and German constitutions under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andreas Müller LL.M. (Yale).
March-August 2023
Home institution: Università degli Studi di Milano
Main research interests: AI systems and non-contractual liability from the perspective of private international law; Legislative approaches in the EU and Switzerland regarding liability issues for defective products; Medical devices, new technologies and the need to adapt legal frameworks in the EU and Switzerland.
Contact on site: Prof. Dr. Alfred Früh, ZLSR
Perspective: As a Visiting Researcher, I think my role is to share my knowledge, to broaden my horizon and to get involved in ongoing projects or to help start new ones, whenever my personal field(s) of study, and interest can offer a different perspective.