Jörg Paul Müller

Jörg Paul Müller (born September 16, 1938 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss legal scholar .

Müller studied law and sociology at the Universities of Geneva and Bern and completed postgraduate studies at Harvard Law School with a Master of Law. After receiving his doctorate in 1964 with the work The Basic Rights of the Constitution and the Protection of Personal Data in Private Law and his habilitation in 1971 with the work on the protection of trust in international law at the University of Bern, he became full professor for public law and legal philosophy there . He also lectured on constitutional law , state theory and political ethics at the Universities of Freiburg , Basel , St. Gallen and the ETH Zurich . From 1976 to 1983, Müller was also a part-time judge at the Swiss Federal Court . He held the office of President of the Independent Complaints Authority for Radio and Television (UBI).

Together with Luzius Wildhaber he received the Marcel Benoist Prize in 1999 . In 2000 the Law Faculty of the University of Basel awarded him an honorary doctorate .

Fonts (selection)

• The fundamental rights of the constitution and the protection of personality under private law (= treatises on Swiss law. New series, no. 360). Stämpfli, Bern 1964 ( dissertation , University of Bern, 1964).
• Protection of legitimate expectations in international law. Heymann, Cologne 1971 ( habilitation thesis , University of Bern, 1971).
• Basic social rights in the constitution? (= Swiss Lawyers Association: presentations and communications. Vol. 107, no. 4). Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel 1973.
• Democratic Justice. A study on the legitimacy of legal and political order. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1993 ( online ).
• The democratic constitution. Between understanding and revolt. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2002; 2nd, revised edition: The democratic constitution. About the self-determination of people in the necessary order of coexistence. NZZ Libro, Zurich 2009.
• Perspectives of Democracy. From the national myth of Wilhelm Tell to Immanuel Kant's worldview. Stämpfli, Bern 2012.
• Realization of the fundamental rights according to Art. 35 BV. Giving opportunities to freedom. Stämpfli, Bern 2018.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jörg Paul Müller in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 22nd edition (2009), Vol. 3, p. 2832.
2. ↑ Honorary doctorates in the Faculty of Law , University of Basel website, accessed on July 11, 2018.