Peter Gauch

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Peter Gauch (born October 15, 1939 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss lawyer and professor at the University of Freiburg im Üechtland .

Life

After attending school, including in the Benedictine College in Engelberg , he studied law in Freiburg im Üechtland and graduated with a licentiate in both rights. This was followed by an internship at the district court of Lucerne-Land and the acquisition of the Lucerne lawyer and notary license . Peter Gauch then did his doctorate and habilitation under Peter Jäggi . In 1973 he was appointed full professor at the Freiburg Faculty of Law. First he was a professor of criminal law , procedural law and enforcement law , then (from 1975) professor of civil and commercial law . He held this chair, which he had taken over from Jäggi, until 2006 and thus for a large part of his career. After Hubert Stöckli took his place and until his retirement he took over a chair for general legal principles and private law. In summer 2008 he retired in Freiburg, but kept a teaching position for the general introduction for the academic year 2008/2009. From 2001 to 2014 he is also a permanent visiting professor at the University of Lucerne . In 2003 Peter Gauch received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lucerne; and in 2018 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern.

Act

Peter Gauch taught at the University of Freiburg i.Ue. and at the University of Lucerne , where he was visiting professor from 2001 to 2014. He also held a temporary teaching position at the Law School of Berkeley USA (1987) and the Law School of Tuscaloosa , Alabama (1989). His field of activity has also included numerous publications, courses, conferences, consultations, arbitration tribunals and mediations.

Among other things, Peter Gauch edited the Zurich Commentary on Swiss Private Law and wrote numerous papers on Swiss and international civil law, in particular on construction law . Since 1985 he has been responsible for the text editions of the ZGB and the OR at the Schulthess publishing house in Zurich. In 1989, on the occasion of his 50th birthday, the festive edition On Building Law was published ; and on his 65th birthday (2004) the Festschrift Gauch's World was published .

With due regard for the practical importance of building law, Peter Gauch founded the "Seminar for Building Law" at the University of Freiburg in 1975. Since then, the seminar has developed steadily until it was converted into the Institute for Swiss and International Building Law at the University of Friborg in 1997 , of which he chaired the Institute Council until 2011. In 2009 Peter Gauch was appointed honorary member of the SIA, which has existed since 1837, together with the architect Mario Botta and as the first lawyer in the history of the Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ System for the termination of long-term contracts, Diss. Freiburg 1968, online version (PDF; 11.4 MB)
  2. ↑ The branch in Swiss civil law including litigation and enforcement law, Zurich 1974, online version, part 1 (PDF; 10.4 MB)
  3. ^ The branch in Swiss civil law including litigation and enforcement law, Zurich 1974, online version, part 2 (PDF; 13.8 MB)
  4. ↑ Pierre Tercier / Roland Hürlimann (eds.), In terms of building law: On the 50th birthday of Peter Gauch, Universitätsverlag, Freiburg (Switzerland) 1989, ISBN 3-7278-0659-1 .
  5. ↑ Pierre Tercier / Marc Amstutz / Hubert Stöckli / Jörg Schmid / Alfred Koller (eds.), Gauchs Welt - Law, Contract Law and Construction Law: Festschrift for Peter Gauch on his 65th birthday, Schulthess, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-7255-4844- 7th
  6. ^ Institute for Swiss and International Construction Law at the University of Friborg Switzerland
personal data
SURNAME Gauch, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne