Hans Giger

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Hans Giger (born October 6, 1929 in Chur ) is a Swiss lawyer. He is professor emeritus for the Swiss Civil Code and the Law of Obligations including Comparative Law at the University of Zurich and a former visiting professor at the University of Freiburg i.Ü. and is one of the leading lawyers in Switzerland.

Life

Born in Chur in 1929 as a citizen of Quarten SG , Giger spent his youth in Rheineck SG . After completing a commercial apprenticeship, he attended the Cantonal School of St. Gallen and graduated in 1950 with the Matura . This was followed by interdisciplinary studies at the universities of Zurich, Vienna, Leiden / NL and London. From 1951 he completed a general degree in psychology , sociology , forensic medicine , psychiatry , philosophy and economics at the University of Zurich . He completed his main law studies in 1959 with a dissertation on the subject of "Criminology of Escape" and was awarded a doctorate in both rights with the grade summa cum laude . Giger acquired the 1961 Admitted to the practice of the legal profession and founded his own law firm, he leads so far.

Giger continued his academic training and research with a focus on private law , comparative law , private law philosophy and philosophical, economic and sociological phenomena of law. At the City of London College, he completed his studies in English and Comparative Law in 1963 with the First Class Certificate with Distinction . A research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg followed.

In 1968 Giger completed his habilitation at the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Zurich with the monograph “The fate of law when changing subjects” (publication of 3 volumes). With the publication of Volume I, he received the venia legendi for the Swiss Civil Code and the Law of Obligations (private law) including comparative law. In the same year he took over the presidency of the commission for the processing of questions of the study and training reform of the Swiss Bar Association. Giger taught at the University of Zurich until his retirement in 1996.

With the treatise "On the Psychology of the Identification Process" Giger completed his studies in psychology, sociology and philosophy at the Philosophical Faculty I of the University of Zurich in 1972. He was awarded the title summa cum laude for Dr. phil. I PhD. He then completed a supplementary degree in economics at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Zurich with interdisciplinary lectures.

In 1976, Giger was appointed professor in the law and political science faculty of the University of Zurich (today: law faculty). As part of his teaching activities, he introduced rhetoric and communication as a subject for lawyers and held the basic lecture “Civil Law for Economists” for ten years.

Scientific involvement in political decision-making ran like a red thread through Giger's professional career. As early as 1973, by resolution of March 19, 1973, the Swiss Federal Council appointed him a member of the expert commission for the revision of the installment law. From 1983 he was an advisor to national and state councils (Swiss parliament) in the run-up to the creation of the consumer credit law KKG.

On his initiative, the founding of the "Scientific Association for the Maintenance of Economic and Consumer Protection Law VKR", the "Scientific Association for the Maintenance of Rhetoric, Information Processing and Communication RIK", both of which he presided, as well as the "Working Group for Consumer Rights Advice KRB" back. He is also the founder and president of the “Permanent Swiss Arbitration Organization SGO”.

In the course of his academic work, he became a member of various national and international associations from 1982 onwards. a. the European Research Association for Consumers Affairs (Belgium), the civil law teachers association of Germany's civil law teachers association , the Society for Comparative Law, the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law (USA), in which he was the country representative for Switzerland.

The government council of the canton of Friborg appointed him visiting professor at the University of Friborg in Üechtland for the winter semester 1990/91. From 2004 to 2009 Giger was Honorary Consul of the Republic of Nicaragua .

As a commentator and a. of the Road Traffic Act SVG, he founded the magazine "Strassenverkehr / Circulation routière" in 2008 and the Research Institute for Road Traffic Law in 2012.

science

Hans Giger is considered one of the leading jurists of the 20th century. With its extensive literature, it covers a wide range of scientific topics. His publications deal with problems of private and commercial law, comparative law and legal policy, the philosophy of private law and the sociological and psychological phenomena of law. Comments on sales law, tenancy law and the road traffic law as well as a number of business, installment payments, liability law, legal methodological and legal theory, regulatory and educational policy writings testify to an extraordinary interdisciplinary way of thinking. Giger's treatises are characterized by a critical examination of regulatory, principle and development-oriented ideas.

The results of his research provoke disputes and creative processes among students, doctoral candidates and experts interested in his literature. Giger's lectures, exercises and seminars have become sources of creative perspectives on conventional interpretations for generations of budding lawyers. In the 1969 summer semester, with the lecture “Introduction to legal rhetoric with exercises”, he aimed at what unites humanities: the common goal of all these disciplines, namely the understanding of people in and from their environment. It is in accordance with his conviction that any purely technical thinking needs to be supplemented in order to be able to do justice to the practical tasks.

Guiding for his scientific work is his sense of the measure for the immovable anthropomorphic values , as they are understood by him in a liberal sense : human dignity and quality of life, freedom, personal responsibility and ethics. In phases of the regulatory paradigm shift , he often brought new perspectives into play, which were incorporated into Swiss legislation several times and which had a significant impact on case law.

Honors

  • 1989: Festschrift for the 60th birthday: Freedom and coercion. Legal, economic and social aspects (Bern 1989). With a foreword by Federal Councilor Adolf Ogi. ISBN 978-3-0354-0005-2
  • 1994: Announcement for the 65th birthday: In dubio pro libertate. Selected writings by Hans Giger on legal and regulatory policy in the field of economy and consumption, Bern 1994. ISBN 978-3-7272-9238-5
  • 1999: Interdisciplinary symposium at the ETH Zurich on the occasion of its 70th birthday "Ethics as a maxim for action".
  • 2000: Edited volume: Ethics as a maxim for action (Bern 2000). With a greeting from Rector Prof. Dr. Dr. hc theol. Hans Heinrich Schmid, University of Zurich. ISBN 978-3-7272-9252-1
  • 2002: Award of the Cross of Honor 1st Class for Science and Art of the Republic of Austria by the Austrian Federal President Thomas Klestil.
  • 2005: Symposium at the ETH Zurich on the 75th birthday: “Education in transition. Demands from politics, business and society ”.
  • 2006: Editing of the anthology: Education in transition. Demands from politics, business and society. Zurich 2006. With a foreword by Federal President Samuel Schmid . ISBN 978-3-03823-277-3
  • 2009: Festschrift for the 80th birthday: Thoughts on justice. Bern 2009. With a foreword by Federal Councilor Doris Leuthard , Vice-President of the Federal Council. ISBN 978-3-7272-2954-1
  • 2009: Awarding of the Great Silver Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria by the Austrian Federal President Heinz Fischer.

Publications

Hans Giger's scientific literature comprises around 250 works. The works are divided into legal commentaries, handbooks, monographs, larger treatises, essays, anthologies and series of works for which he is the editor or co-editor.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Criminology of Escape. Diss. Zurich 1959. [1]
  2. ↑ The fate of law when changing subjects, with special consideration of the concept of succession, II: Critical interpretation of ideological ideas in the twentieth century - a study comparing private law; Habilitation thesis 1967/1968. Zurich 1975., ISBN 978-3-7255-1649-0 [2]
  3. ↑ On the psychology of the identification process. Diss. Zurich 1972. [3]
  4. ↑ https://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classified-compilation/20010555/index.html
  5. ↑ https://www.kmu-schiedsgericht-sgo.ch/
  6. ↑ http://iaccl.org/
  7. ↑ https://gigerpartnerlaw.ch/rechtsgebiete/strassenverkehrsrecht/
  8. ^ Foreword by the editors, in festschrift for the 60th birthday: Freedom and compulsion. Bern 1989. S. VII ff. ISBN 978-3-0354-0005-2 [4]
  9. ↑ Hans Peter Manz, Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to Switzerland, in a commemorative publication on the occasion of his 80th birthday: Thoughts on justice. Bern 2009. p. 11 f. ISBN 978-3-7272-2954-1 [5]
  10. ^ Foreword by the editors, on the occasion of the 65th birthday: In dubio pro libertate. Bern 1994. S. V ff. ISBN 978-3-7272-9238-5 [6]
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Larese, in: Festgabe anthology "Ethik als Handlungsmaxime" Bern 2000. P. 13 ff. ISBN 978-3-7272-9252-1 [7]
  12. ^ Foreword by the editors, on the occasion of the 65th birthday: In dubio pro libertate. Bern 1994. S. VI. ISBN 978-3-7272-9238-5 [8]
  13. ^ Foreword by Federal Councilor Adolf Ogi , in a commemorative publication on the occasion of his 60th birthday: Freedom and compulsion. Bern 1989. ISBN 978-3-0354-0005-2 , p. V f. [9]
personal data
SURNAME Giger, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer, philosopher and psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur