Stephan Breitenmoser

Stephan Breitenmoser (born February 2, 1955 in Basel ) is a Swiss law scholar and professor at the University of Basel .

Life

Breitenmoser studied law at the University of Basel from 1974 to 1980 . He then worked until 1983 as an assistant to Luzius Wildhaber in Basel, where he in 1985 with summa cum laude to the Dr. iur. PhD. This dissertation was awarded the Professor Walther Hug Prize in 1986 . Also in 1986, Breitenmoser passed his lawyer exam in the canton of Basel-Stadt . After research stays from 1988 to 1990 at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg and the University of California, Berkeley , among others , he was assistant professor for European law, international law and public law at the University of Basel. From 1992 to 2006, Breitenmoser also worked as a judge at the Basel-Stadt appellate court . In 1995 he was awarded the venia docendi by the University of Basel for the subjects of public law, European law and international law.

In addition to his assistant professorship, Breitenmoser held a teaching position at the University of St. Gallen from 1995 to 1999 , and from 1998 to 2000 a teaching position at the Center for European Integration Research at the University of Bonn . After holding the chair for Wildhaber at the University of Basel from 1998 to 2001, he was appointed to the full chair for European and international law from this university in 2001, which he has held since then. Since 2007 he has also been a judge at the Federal Administrative Court in St. Gallen . He is also a member of the Collège Doctoral Européen at the University of Strasbourg and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Austrian Institute for Human Rights in Salzburg .

Stephan Breitenmoser teaches and researches in particular on European law and international law. He held visiting professorships at the universities of Bonn, Bologna , Krakow , Beijing and Shanghai , among others .

Works (selection)

• Protection of privacy according to Art. 8 ECHR: the right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence . Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel 1986 (dissertation).
• with Boris Riemer and Claudia Seitz: Practice of European Law - Protection of Fundamental Rights . Schulthess, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-7255-4503-2 .
• with Robert Weyeneth: European law: taking into account the relationship between Switzerland and the EU . 2nd Edition. Dike, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-03751-625-6 .

Web links

• Breitenmoser at his chair at the University of Basel
• Breitenmoser at the Swiss Federal Administrative Court