Marc Thommen

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Marc André Thommen (born February 11, 1975 in Basel ) is a Swiss legal scholar and professor of criminal law and criminal procedure law at the University of Zurich .

Life

Marc Thommen visited in Basel , the primary school and the secondary school , he with the maturity graduated type B. He then studied law at the Universities of Basel , Friborg and Zurich and obtained the title lic. iur.

In addition to his doctorate in 2004 with Kurt Seelmann , Thommen obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) at Trinity Hall College, Cambridge University in 2005 . From 2005 to 2009 he worked as a clerk in the criminal law department of the Swiss Federal Court . In 2010 he was admitted to the Zurich bar .

In 2013 , Thommen completed his habilitation with a thesis on penalty orders - and abbreviated procedures. In the same year he was appointed associate professor for criminal law and criminal procedure law , including commercial and administrative criminal law , at the University of Zurich . In 2019 he was promoted to full professor .

Promotion of Open Access

Since his appointment, Thommen has been committed to promoting Open Access in law .

In 2014 he founded the sui generis association together with Daniel Hürlimann to publish the legal open access journal sui-generis.ch . Sui-generis.ch publishes scientific articles from all areas of law and appears exclusively on the Internet . Since 2018, the association has also published the book series sui generis , in which legal dissertations , textbooks and conference papers are made available open access . The textbook Introduction to Swiss Law published by Thommen was published in 2018 as the second work in this series . This makes it the first legal textbook to be published in Switzerland with Open Access.

In 2019, Thommen was appointed by the university management as one of two open science delegates at the University of Zurich.

Research priorities

Thommen's research focuses on Swiss criminal law and criminal procedure law . In his habilitation , he examined the rule of law of penal order and abbreviated procedures in Switzerland. A three-year national fund project that Thommen led together with André Kuhn is also concerned with the empirical investigation of penal order procedures . Thommen tends to take a critical stance towards shortened processes in criminal proceedings, but does not advocate the abolition of penalty orders and abbreviated procedures, but instead calls for a selective revision.

Literature (selection)

  • Medical interventions on incapacitated persons and the consent of the representatives. A criminal analysis of proxy consent . Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel etc. 2004, ISBN 3-7190-2345-1 (dissertation).
  • Short process - fair process? Punitive orders and abbreviated procedures between efficiency and justice . Stämpfli Verlag, Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7272-7990-4 (habilitation thesis).
  • as editor: Introduction to Swiss Law . Carl Grossmann, Berlin / Bern 2018, ISBN 978-3-941159-26-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CV Marc Thommen. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
  2. ^ Marc Thommen: Medical interventions on incapable of judgment and the consent of the representative. A criminal analysis of proxy consent . Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel etc. 2004, ISBN 3-7190-2345-1 ( perma.cc ).
  3. ↑ a b Marc Thommen: Short process / fair process? Punitive orders and abbreviated procedures between efficiency and justice . Stämpfli, Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7272-7990-4 .
  4. ↑ Promotion of Prof. Dr. Marc Thommen as full professor. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b «Open Access cannot be stopped». Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
  6. ↑ About the journal | sui generis. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Books | sui generis. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Marc Thommen (Ed.): Introduction to Swiss Law . Carl Grossmann, Berlin / Bern 2018, ISBN 978-3-941159-24-2 ( perma.cc ).
  9. ↑ Debate: Science opens up. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Publications and presentations. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Criminal order procedure - facts and figures. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Interview with Rolf Grädel and Marc Thommen. Accessed January 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Thommen, Marc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thommen, Marc André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel