Daniel Thürer

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Daniel Thürer (2008)

Daniel Thürer (born June 6, 1945 in St. Gallen ; resident in Chur and Valzeina ) is a Swiss legal scholar . From 1983 to 2010 he was Professor of International Law , European Law , Public Law and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Zurich . He is a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Commission of Jurists and the Institut de Droit International . He is currently President of the German Society for International Law.

Life

Daniel Thürer completed his law studies at the University of Zurich in 1970. During his student days he joined the Swiss Zofingerverein . After LL.M. studies at the University of Cambridge , he received in 1974 for his thesis "The self-determination - With an excursus on the Jura question " doctorate at the University of Zurich. After working as a research assistant with Dietrich Schindler junior at the University of Zurich, as a trainee lawyer at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and at Harvard Law School , he was legal advisor to the government council of the canton of Aargau . In 1983 he became professor for international law, European law, public law and comparative constitutional law at the University of Zurich, where he also headed the Institute for International Law and Foreign Constitutional Law. From 1998 to 2000 he was Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Zurich.

In addition to his teaching activities in Zurich, he was also active at universities abroad, such as Visiting Research Professor at Stanford Law School , Distinguished Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University , and member of the Advisory Board of the Concord Center, School of Law in Jerusalem , as Visiting Research Professor at Harvard Law School, as Consultant and Honorary Professor at Gujarat National Law University , as Visiting Professor at Cambridge University (Herbert Smith Visiting Program), as Visiting Professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Internationales of the Université Panthéon –Assas and at the Institut des droits de l'homme in Strasbourg .

Daniel Thürer undertook numerous missions as an expert for various institutions. In 1991 he was co-opted as a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) . In this role he has worked in Zimbabwe , Russia , Belarus , East Timor , India , Thailand , Myanmar , the Philippines and New Zealand . As a CSCE / OSCE expert (“Human Dimension”) he visited the Baltic States , the Czech Republic , Slovakia , Moldova and Ukraine . From 1993 to 1998 he was a member of the expert commission for the total revision of the Federal Constitution and was also a member of the State Court of Justice of the Principality of Liechtenstein . From 2000 to 2001 he was a member of the Independent Expert Commission Switzerland - Second World War ("Bergier Commission"). Since 2004 he has been Switzerland's delegate to the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) of the Council of Europe and has participated in missions to Denmark , Monaco and Georgia . From January to April 2012 Fernand Braudel is a Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence .

Daniel Thürer is married to Susi Thürer-Reber and has two daughters. He often spends his free time in Davos Monstein in the canton of Graubünden . He is the initiator and vice-president of the “Convivenza - Center for Minorities” foundation based in Graubünden.

Since 2010 he has been a consultant at Stiffler & Partner Rechtsanwälte, Zurich.

Research approach

Thürer represents a humanistic and idealistic approach to international law. He combines the firm belief in the transformative power of international institutions and international law with the rejection of cynical realism as well as the still dominant positivism . His approach is best illustrated by the lecture on international humanitarian law at the Hague Academy in 2008, in which this complex area of ​​law is reinterpreted in an interdisciplinary methodology including religion , history and moral philosophy and the original goal - the reduction of human suffering and the protection of civilians - is highlighted.

Works (selection)

  • The right of peoples to self-determination - with an excursus on the law question. Dissertation, Zurich 1974
  • Federation and municipalities - A comparative study. Habilitation thesis, Berlin 1986 ( Contributions of the Max Planck Institute on Foreign Public Law and International Law , Vol. 90)
  • Perspective Switzerland. Schulthess, Zurich 1998
  • Constitutional law of Switzerland - Droit constitutionnel suisse. Schulthess, Zurich 2001 (edited with Jean-François Aubert and Jörg Paul Müller )
  • Cosmopolitan constitutional law. Schulthess, Zurich 2005 ( Basic Concept of Justice , Volume 1)
  • International law as progress and opportunity. Dike / Nomos, Zurich / Baden-Baden 2009 ( Basic Concept Justice , Volume 2)
  • International Humanitarian Law: Theory and Practice. Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden 2010 ( The Pocket Books of the Hague Academy of International Law )
  • Human rights. Ideals, instruments, institutions. Dike, Zurich and St. Gallen 2010, and Nomos, Baden-Baden 2010 (together with Thomas Buergenthal )

Awards

In 2001 Daniel Thürer received an honorary doctorate (Dr. hc rer. Publ.) From the University of St. Gallen . In 2009 he was elected a member of the Institut de Droit International.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schweizerischer Zofingerverein, Schweizerischer Altzofingerverein (Ed.): Membership Directory 1997. Zofingen 1997, p. 98. (Available in the Swiss National Library , call number SWR 1338.)
  2. ^ European University Institute - Daniel Thuerer (last accessed on February 13, 2012)
  3. ^ "More than just a ban on violence - On the complex shape of international law" , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , June 25, 2004
  4. ^ "Optimistic view of human rights - An introduction by Daniel Thürer and Thomas Buergenthal" , Neue Zürcher Zeitung, March 23, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Thürer, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen