Markus Schefer

Markus Schefer (born February 4, 1965 ) is a Swiss legal scholar who specializes in the legal areas of fundamental rights , international human rights protection and the comparative constitution.

Life

Markus Schefer grew up in Teufen / AR . From 1985 to 1990 he studied law at the University of Bern and from 1989 worked as assistant / senior assistant at the Institute for Public Law at the University of Bern with Jörg Paul Müller . In 1992/1993 he studied at the University of California at Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall) and at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, and graduated with a Master of Laws (LL.M.). Back in Bern doctorate he 1995 on Dr. iur .

In 2001 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bern with the venia docendi for public law, comparative constitutional law and legal methodology. Since the winter semester 2001/2002 he is professor of state and administrative law at the University of Basel.

Since October 2005 he has been editor of the journal Jusletter on constitutional law . In recent years, Schefer has focused on the complete revision of the standard work Basic Rights in Switzerland by Jörg Paul Müller.

Markus Schefer is married and has two daughters.

Works

• together with René Rhinow , Swiss Constitutional Law . 2., ext. Ed., Basel, Helbing Lichtenhahn, Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-7190-2600-4
• together with Jörg Paul Müller , fundamental rights in Switzerland . Within the framework of the Federal Constitution, the ECHR and the UN Pacts, 4th edition, Bern, Stämpfli Verlag, Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7272-9792-2
• The violation of fundamental rights. On the dogmatics of Art. 36 BV . Stämpfli, Bern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7272-9123-4
• Ed. Together with Anne Peters: Basic problems of interpretation from the point of view of public law . (Symposium on the 60th birthday of René Rhinow). Stämpfli, Bern 2004
• The core contents of fundamental rights. Validity, dogmatics and content design . Stämpfli, Bern 2001, ISBN 3-7272-9661-5
• together with Jörg Paul Müller: Constitutional case law of the Federal Supreme Court 1992–1996 . Stämpfli, Bern 1998, ISBN 3-7272-9460-4
• Concretization of fundamental rights by the US Supreme Court. On linguistic, historical and democratic arguments in constitutional law . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-08727-5

Web links

• Profile of Markus Schefer at the Law Faculty of the University of Basel