Marcel Alexander Niggli
Marcel Alexander Niggli (born May 16, 1960 in Zug ) is a Swiss legal scholar with a focus on criminal law and legal philosophy .
Life
Niggli attended primary school in Steinhausen and Cham from 1967 to 1973 and the grammar school in Zug from 1973 to 1979 , which he finished with a high school diploma specializing in Latin (type B) . From 1979 he studied law at the University of Zurich and graduated in 1984 with a licentiate . From 1984 to 1987 followed a stay in Italy and a job in the legal service of an insurance company. Marcel Niggli was from 1987 to 1993 assistant in the law library of the University of Zurich and from 1989 to 1993 assistant to Günther Kaiser at the Criminological Institute of the University of Zurich. In 1992, Niggli received his doctorate in law from the University of Zurich, after which he worked for the Zurich District Attorney and the Zurich District Court . He was a lecturer at the Universities of Zurich (for methodology) and Freiburg im Üechtland (for criminology). In 1995 Niggli became an assistant professor for criminal law and criminology at the University of Freiburg im Üechtland. In 1998 Marcel Niggli completed his habilitation in criminal law, criminology and legal philosophy at the University of Zurich. In 1999 Marcel Niggli was appointed full professor of criminal law, criminal procedural law and criminology at the University of Freiburg. Since 2001 he has been full professor for criminal law and legal philosophy and was also dean of the law faculty at this university from 2009–2014 .
The positions of Montaigne , Ludwig Wittgenstein , Friedrich Nietzsche and Paul Feyerabend are decisive for one's own position - building on the ideas of skepticism .
Niggli has been President of the Criminological Society since 2012 .
He is an honorary philistine at AV Fryburgia (since the GV Zug 2006), a student association of the Swiss Student Union .
Fonts (selection)
Monographs
- The relationship between property, assets and damage according to Swiss criminal law presented using the example of damage to property under current law and the 1991 draft (= Zurich studies on criminal law . Vol. 20). Schulthess, Zurich 1992 (dissertation, University of Zurich, 1992).
- Racial discrimination. A comment on Art. 261bis StGB and Art. 171c MStG with regard to the "Convention of December 21, 1965 on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination" and the corresponding regulations of other signatory states. Schulthess, Zurich 1996.
- Human order: On the metaphysical foundations of modern social, norm and criminal theory. (= Binding and norm. Vol. 1). Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 2000 (habilitation thesis, University of Zurich, 1998).
- Counterfeiting of money, official stamps, official symbols, measure and weight: Art. 240–250 as well as Art. 327 and 328 StGB (= commentary on Swiss criminal law. Vol. 6a). Edited by Martin Schubarth . Stämpfli, Bern 2000.
Editing
- (with Stefan Bauhofer, Pierre-Henri Bolle and Volker Dittmann ) Youth and criminal law (= criminology . Vol. 16). Rüegger, Chur / Zurich 1998.
- (Associate Editor) Basic Law series . Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 2001 ff. (Series of dissertations from the University of Freiburg im Üechtland).
- (with Ursula Cassani and Renie Maag) Media, crime and justice (= criminology. Vol. 19). Rüegger, Chur / Zurich 2001.
- Swiss criminal law: all federal decrees on criminal law and criminal procedure law, with references. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2001. 2nd edition 2006.
- (with Philippe Weissenberger) Criminal Defense (= manuals for legal practice. Vol. 7). Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 2002.
- (with Nicolas Queloz) Criminal justice and the rule of law / Justice pénale et état de droit. Symposium on the 60th birthday of Franz Riklin and José Hurtado Pozo. Schulthess, Zurich 2003.
- (with Hans Wiprächtiger) Criminal Code ( Basel Commentary ). 2 volumes. Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 2003.
Web links
- Literature by and about Marcel Alexander Niggli in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of the chair of Marcel Alexander Niggli
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Niggli, Marcel Alexander |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Niggli, Marcel; Niggli, Marcel A. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss legal scholar and legal philosopher |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1960 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | train |