Astrid Epiney

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Astrid Epiney (2015)

Astrid Epiney (* 9. July 1965 in Mainz as Astrid hiking ) is a German - Swiss legal scholar and university lecturer .

Life

Epiney studied law at the Universities of Mainz and Lausanne and graduated in 1989 in Mainz with the first state examination in law and in 1991 in Lausanne with a licentiate . In the same year, she received her doctorate from Eckart Klein in Mainz with a dissertation on "The responsibility of states under international law for illegal behavior in connection with private actions" . In 1992 she obtained her diploma in comparative European and international legal studies ( Master of Laws ) at the European University Institute in Florence with her thesis “The status of European Community law in integration contracts” . In 1994, Epiney was introduced to Klein in Mainz with the text “Reverse Discrimination. Admissibility and limits of discrimination à rebors under European Community Law and National Constitutional Law ” for constitutional law , international law and European law . In September 1994 she became associate professor and in 1996 full professor for international law, European law and Swiss public law at the University of Friborg in Switzerland. Since 1995 she has been the managing director of the Institute for European Law at the university. From 2005 to 2007 she was Dean of the Faculty of Law and from 2007 to 2011 Vice Rector. She is elected Rector of the University of Freiburg for the term of office from March 15, 2015 to March 14, 2019.

As a specialist editor for the legal journal Jusletter , she is responsible for European law. Epiney has been the managing editor of the Journal for European Environmental and Planning Law since 2012 . From 2012 to 2015 she chaired the Swiss Science and Innovation Council (SWIR; until 2014 the name was Swiss Science and Technology Council SWTR).

Epiney was awarded the National Latsis Prize of the Swiss National Science Foundation in 1995. In 2011 she was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

Epiney is married and has two children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Astrid Epiney, next Rector of the University of Freiburg , website of the University of Freiburg, May 22, 2014, accessed on June 8, 2014.
  2. ↑ Prof. Astrid Epiney awarded Legion of Honor , University of Freiburg website, September 23, 2011, accessed on June 8, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Epiney, Astrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wander, Astrid (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss lawyer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz