Marcel Senn

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Marcel Senn (born March 26, 1954 in Thun ) is a Swiss legal historian and legal philosopher and has been a full professor of legal history , contemporary legal history and legal philosophy at the University of Zurich since 1998 .

Life

Marcel Senn studied law at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate in 1982. For his dissertation «Legal-historical self-understanding in transition. A contribution to the theory of science and the history of science in legal history » he received the Professor Walther Hug Prize in 1983 . From 1982 to 1995 he worked in various positions in the practice. With his work «Spinoza and the German jurisprudence. A historical study on the reception deficit of Spinozism in the law of the German-speaking cultural area »He completed his habilitation in 1991 at the University of Zurich, where he initially taught as a private lecturer and since 1995 as an associate professor and since 1998 as a full professor.

Marcel Senn's research focuses on the Enlightenment philosophy, natural law in legal thought (Spinoza, Thomasius, Wolff, Kant, Hegel), naturalism in law (19th / 20th centuries) and city rights in the late Middle Ages. Another research interest concerns the history of science, legal history and legal and social philosophy.

From 2008 to 2010 Marcel Senn was Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Zurich. As President of the Swiss Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, from 2005 to 2009 he held congresses on the subjects of “Brain Research and Legal Responsibility” , “Jurisprudence as Cultural Studies?”, “Jurisprudence and Hermeneutics” and “Law and Globalization” .

Marcel Senn has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Legal Sources Foundation of the Swiss Lawyers Association, which also publishes the collection of Swiss legal sources online, since 2006 .

In 2016 his work “Legal and Social Philosophy. Historical Foundations of European, North American, Indian and Chinese Legal and Social Philosophy ” (1st edition) was translated into the Chinese language and his work « Legal history - a cultural-historical outline » (4th edition) was translated into Russian.

Fonts (selection)

  • Legal and social philosophy. Historical foundations of European, North American, Indian and Chinese legal philosophies. An introduction to source materials . With a guest contribution on "Sinomarxism" by Prof. Dr. phil. and Dr. iur. Harro von Senger , Zurich / St. Gallen: Dike, 2. A. 2017. The completely revised 2nd edition of the book was published in cooperation with Nomos Verlag in Baden-Baden.
  • Legal philosophical and legal historical self-understanding in transition. Twenty articles on the development and dissemination of the scientific understanding of law , Zurich / St. Gallen: Dike 2016.
  • Law and legal education. Five critical contributions to fundamental questions in the science of law after the introduction of the Bologna reform , Zurich / St. Gallen: Dike 2013.
  • Legal and social philosophy. Historical foundations of European, North American, Indian and Chinese legal philosophies. An introduction to source materials. With a guest contribution on "Sinomarxism" by Harro von Senger . Dike, Zurich / St. Gallen 2012.
  • Medieval Zurich. A city tour. Dike, Zurich / St. Gallen 2007.
  • Law - yesterday and today: contemporary legal history. Schulthess, Zurich 2002; later: Legal history II - legal contemporary history, from 2nd edition 2004 together with. Lukas Gschwend , 3rd, revised edition 2010.
  • Legal history - a cultural-historical outline. Schulthess, Zurich 1997; 4th edition 2007.
  • Spinoza and German Law. A historical study on the reception deficit of Spinozism in legal studies in the German-speaking cultural area (= Zurich studies on legal history. Vol. 22). Schulthess, Zurich 1991 (habilitation thesis, University of Zurich, 1989).
  • Legal-historical self-image in transition. A contribution to the philosophy of science and the history of science in legal history (= Zurich studies on legal history. Vol. 7). Schulthess, Zurich 1982 (dissertation, University of Zurich, 1982).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brain Research and Legal Responsibility. Symposium of the Swiss Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, May 19 and 20, 2006, University of Bern, ed. v. Marcel Senn, Dániel Puskás, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2006, 171 pages (= ARSP supplement no.111).
  2. ↑ Law as cultural studies? Congress of the Swiss Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, June 15 and 16, 2007, University of Zurich, ed. v. Marcel Senn, Dániel Puskás, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2007, 220 pp. (= ARSP supplement 115).
  3. ^ Law and Hermeneutics. Congress of the Swiss Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, May 16 and 17, 2008, University of Zurich, ed. v. Marcel Senn, Barbara Fritschi, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2009, 258 p. (= ARSP supplement 117).
  4. ↑ Law and Globalization. Congress of the Swiss Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, May 15 and 16, 2009, University of Geneva, ed. v. Marcel Senn, Bénédict Winiger, Barbara Fritschi, Philippe Avramov, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2010, 196 pages (= ARSP supplement 121).
  5. ↑ Legal and social philosophy . 1st edition. China University of Political Science and Law Press, Beijing 2016.
  6. ^ Legal history - a cultural-historical outline . Publishing house of the Institute of Law, St. Petersburg 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Senner, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss legal historian and legal philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuna