Dietrich Schindler junior

Dietrich Schindler junior (also Dietrich Schindler-Kuhn ; * December 22, 1924 in Zurich ; † February 7, 2018 ) was a Swiss lawyer who distinguished himself in the areas of humanitarian international law , human rights , neutrality policy and federalism . From 1964 to 1989 he was professor for international law and constitutional law at the University of Zurich .

Life

Dietrich Schindler studied law at the Universities of Zurich , Geneva , Paris and Harvard . He completed his studies in 1950 with a doctorate at the University of Zurich, where he also received his habilitation in 1957 . From 1956 to 1964 he was a private lecturer there and worked during this time from 1957 to 1958 as a lecturer at the University of Bonn and from 1961 to 1962 as a visiting professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Michigan . In 1964, he was appointed associate professor in Zurich and, four years later, full professor of international law and constitutional law , a position he held until his retirement in 1989.

From 1961 to 1973 and from 1980 to 1994 Dietrich Schindler was a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), of which he was later made an honorary member. In 1962 he worked in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a constitutional advisor. Since 1967 he has been a member of the Institut de Droit international . From 1977 he was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague and from 1986 to 1988 was among other things a member of an arbitration tribunal to settle the dispute between Egypt and Israel over the city of Taba . In 1967 and 1979 he worked as a lecturer at the Hague Academy for International Law .

In 1993 Dietrich Schindler received an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel .

Works (selection)

Equal rights for individuals as a problem of international law. Habilitation thesis, Zurich 1957
Swiss peculiarities in political science. Zurich 1975
Documents on Swiss neutrality since 1945. Reports and statements of the Swiss federal authorities on questions of neutrality 1945–1983. Bern 1984
The limits of the prohibition of violence under international law. Heidelberg 1986
The European compatibility of Swiss law. Zurich 1990 (as co-editor)
Effects of the EC on the Swiss state structure. Zurich 1990

Web links

Literature by and about Dietrich Schindler junior in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. hc Dietrich Schindler-Kuhn, professor emeritus for international law, European law, constitutional and administrative law. Retrieved February 23, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schindler, Dietrich junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss lawyer and professor emeritus for international law and constitutional law at the University of Zurich
DATE OF BIRTH	December 22, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich
DATE OF DEATH	February 7, 2018

[1] Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. hc Dietrich Schindler-Kuhn, professor emeritus for international law, European law, constitutional and administrative law. Retrieved February 23, 2019 .