Claire Huguenin

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Claire Huguenin (born March 12,  1954 in Lucerne ; † June 27, 2018 in Zurich ) was a Swiss lawyer and lawyer of obligations . As a professor for private, commercial and European law, she taught at the University of Zurich .

academic career

Huguenin studied and did his doctorate at the University of Bern (lic. Iur 1980, Dr. iur. 1984 with Wolfgang Wiegand on the subject of initial contract defects). In 1985 she was admitted to the Zurich bar and in 1987 an LL.M. from Columbia University and an LL.M. from the University of Amsterdam . In 1994 she completed her habilitation at the University of Zurich with a paper on the principle of equal treatment under company law . From 1997 she held the chair for private, commercial and European law at the University of Zurich (semi-official until 2000), from 1997 to 2000 she was also a professor at the University of Bern. From 2001 she was a permanent visiting professor at the University of Lucerne .

Her research focus was on Swiss and European contract and company law. As part of a research project of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), she and Reto M. Hilty presented "OR 2020", a draft for a modernized general part of the Swiss Code of Obligations (OR) in 2012. This was accepted in 2013 through two postulates , each of which was signed by a majority of the National Council and the Council of States . In 2018, the Federal Council announced in a report that it saw no need for action for a complete revision of the general part of the OR.

practical activity

Until her appointment to the university, Huguenin practiced as a lawyer . During her career, she was, among other things, Vice-President of the Swiss Takeover Commission , Vice-President of the Equal Opportunities Commission at the University of Zurich and a member of the federal corporate governance working group, which wrote the expert report on the partial revision of company law in 2003. She was a founding member of the Competence Center Medicine - Ethics - Law Helvetiae MERH, the Center for Art and Law and the European Law Institute at the University of Vienna .

Awards

In 2016 she was awarded the Great Walther Hug Prize .

Publications (selection)

Huguenin has authored a variety of scientific publications, including legislative proposals, textbooks, commentaries, and essays.

  • Nullity and non-binding nature as consequences of initial contractual defects: a dispute with the federal court case law on Art. 20 OR, Bern 1984 (dissertation)
  • The principle of equal treatment in company law, Zurich 1994 (habilitation)
  • with Reto M. Hilty: Swiss Code of Obligations 2020 - Draft for a new general part / Code des obligations suisse 2020 - projet relatif à une nouvelle partie générale, Zurich / Basel / Geneva 2013
  • Code of Obligations, general and special part, 2nd edition, Zurich / Basel / Geneva 2014
  • Commentary on Art. 19-21 OR , in: Basler Commentary, Law of Obligations I (Art. 1-529 OR), 5th edition, Basel 2011
  • with Tina Purtschert: Commentary on Innominate contracts, general part (preliminary to Art. 184 ff. OR) in: Hand Commentary on Swiss Private Law, 3rd edition, Zurich / Basel / Geneva 2016
  • with Peter Böckli and François Dessemontet: Expert report of the Corporate Governance working group on the partial revision of stock corporation law, Zurich / Basel / Geneva 2004

Web links

credentials

  1. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 3, 2018, accessed July 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Nullity and non-binding nature as consequences of initial contractual defects , Bern 1984
  3. ^ Curriculum vitae ( memento from July 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), Huguenin Chair, Institute of Law (RWI), University of Zurich
  4. ^ The principle of equal treatment in company law, Zurich 1994
  5. ↑ Curriculum vitae ( memento from July 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), Huguenin Chair, RWI, University of Zurich; Permanent visiting professorships , University of Lucerne
  6. ↑ Curriculum Vitae ( Memento from July 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), Huguenin Chair, RWI, University of Zurich
  7. ^ A law also for laypeople , NZZ April 3, 2013
  8. ↑ postulate 13.3226 in the Curia Vista National Council; Postulate 13.3217 in the Vista Curia Council of States
  9. ↑ The Federal Council sees no need for revision of the general part of the Code of Obligations , Federal Council media release, January 31, 2018
  10. ↑ “An unengaged man would never be an option” , NZZ October 24, 2008
  11. ↑ BBl 2004 4310
  12. ↑ Curriculum Vitae ( Memento from July 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), Huguenin Chair, RWI, University of Zurich
  13. ^ Founding Individual Members of the ELI , European Law Institute, University of Vienna
  14. ↑ Curriculum Vitae ( Memento from July 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), Huguenin Chair, RWI, University of Zurich
  15. ↑ Awarding of the Walther Hug Prize to Prof. Dr. Claire Huguenin , Faculty of Law, University of Zurich April 22, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Huguenin, Claire
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss private lawyer and professor at the University of Zurich
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2018
Place of death Zurich