Christine Kaufmann (lawyer)

Christine Kaufmann (born May 24, 1962 in Zurich , from Kaltbrunn SG and Neuhausen am Rheinfall ), formerly Christine Breining-Kaufmann, is a Swiss lawyer .

Life

Christine Kaufmann studied law at the University of Zurich . After obtaining her licentiate in 1987 , she did her doctorate in 1990 with Daniel Thürer on the subject of "Hunger as a legal problem - aspects of a right to food under international law" . After working for the Swiss National Bank from 1991 to 2000 - most recently with the rank of director - she wrote her habilitation thesis as a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan Law School in 2000/01 . For a short time she was Director of Legal Research at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern before she was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich in 2002. A year later she was promoted to Ordinaria for Constitutional, Administrative and International Law.

Her research focuses on the constitutional effects of globalization, the interfaces between international trade law and human rights, and the relationship between the international trade and financial system.

Web link

• Website of the chair at the University of Zurich