Stefan Trechsel

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Stefan Trechsel at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

Stefan Trechsel (born June 25, 1937 in Bern ) is a Swiss jurist and judge at the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia .

Stefan Trechsel was born in Bern in 1937 as the son of pastor von Boltigen , his mother came from a Jewish family in Berlin . He has been married to the lawyer Franca J. Kinsbergen since 1967, with whom he has two daughters.

After graduating from Burgdorf , Trechsel studied law at the University of Bern . After 1963, the advocate patent of the Canton of Bern had received his doctorate he in 1966 when Hans Schultz with a thesis on "The criminal because of the participation" . Six years later, based on his habilitation thesis on the subject of “The European Convention on Human Rights, its Protection of Personal Freedom and Swiss Criminal Procedure Law”, he was awarded the Venia Legendi. From 1971 to 1975 he was a public prosecutor in Bern. In the same year Trechsel was elected to the European Commission on Human Rights , of which he was the last president. After teaching assignments in Friborg , Bern and Zurich , he was appointed full professor for criminal law and criminal procedure law in St. Gallen in 1979 . In 1999 he moved to Zurich, where he taught until his retirement in summer 2004. In the summer of 2005 he was elected substitute judge at the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia by the General Assembly of the United Nations .

In the LaGrand case, he advised the US government in the proceedings before the International Court of Justice .

For twelve years he was a member of the board of trustees and advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law and Criminology .

Of his numerous contributions in the field of criminal law and the European Convention on Human Rights , the textbook on the doctrine of crime founded by Peter Noll , illustrated by Kaspar Fischer and continued by him, the practical commentary on the penal code and a work on the subject of "Human rights in criminal proceedings" should be highlighted.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ LaGrand (Germany v. United States of America), Judgment, I. C. J. Reports 2001, p. 466 ( Memento from February 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 6.1 MB).
  2. ^ Stefan Trechsel, Peter Noll, Mark Pieth: Swiss criminal law. General Part I, 7th edition, Zurich 2017.
  3. ↑ Stefan Trechsel et al. (Ed.): Swiss Criminal Code, Praxiskommentar, 3rd edition, Zurich 2017.
  4. ↑ Stefan Trechsel: Human Rights in Criminal Proceedings, Oxford 2005, reviewed in: HRRS - Online Journal for Supreme Court Jurisprudence in Criminal Law, 2006 (PDF; 592 kB), p. 44 f.
personal data
SURNAME Trechsel, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern