Susanne Leuzinger-Naef

Susanne Leuzinger-Naef (born September 18, 1949 in Solothurn ) is a Swiss lawyer and former judge of the Federal Supreme Court , the highest court in Switzerland. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) .

biography

After studying law at the University of Zurich in 1972 with the licentiate had finished, Leuzinger worked as auditor (trainee) at the District Court Uster operates. In 1975 she was co-founder of the Legal Advice Lawyers Collective . In 1974 she was admitted to the bar by the Canton of Zurich . Until 1994 Leuzinger worked as a freelance lawyer in Zurich .

After gaining a doctorate in law in 1994 with a dissertation on a social security law topic , she worked until 1996 as President of the Federal Appeals Commission for Accident Insurance. From 1995 to 1996 she was also a judge at the Social Insurance Court of the Canton of Zurich . On March 20, 1996, Leuzinger was elected judge at the Federal Insurance Court. In 2004 and 2005 she was its Vice-President, and in 2006 she was President of the Federal Insurance Court.

After this court was transformed into the two social law chambers of the Federal Supreme Court on December 31, 2006, Leuzingen was elected Federal Judge and in October 2006 with 171 votes by the Federal Assembly as the successor to Bernard Corboz as Vice-President of the Federal Supreme Court . On December 3, 2008, the Federal Assembly confirmed her position as Vice-President of the Federal Supreme Court with 211 of 212 valid votes.

December 2015 Leuzinger resigned from her position as federal judge.

Leuzinger was a member of the board of the Swiss Association of Judges (SVR).

Leuzinger is divorced.

Publications

• Are you properly insured? Handbook for all policyholders. Verlagsgesellschaft Beobachter, Glattbrugg 1985, ISBN 9783855690404 .
• Pre-existing state of health and insurance coverage in social insurance: with special consideration of the restriction of insurance coverage in social health insurance and occupational provision Schulthess, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-7255-3255-9 .
• Thomas Geiser, Susanne Leuzinger-Naef, Erwin Murer, Alexandra Rumo-Jungo, Jean F. Stöckli: New forms of employment - outdated labor and social security law? Stämpfli , Bern 1996, ISBN 978-3-7272-9782-3 .
• The elimination of accident causality. Lecture at the Social Security Law Conference June 12, 2007 ( online ).
• The federal court rulings on social assistance law: an overview. Lecture at the symposium on social welfare law October 2008 ( online ; PDF; 200 kB).
• The family- related case law of the social law departments of the Federal Supreme Court in 2007. , Article, FamPra.ch, 1/2009.

source

• Susanne Leuzinger-Naef on the website of the Federal Supreme Court

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pre-existing state of health and insurance coverage in social insurance: with special consideration of the restriction of insurance coverage in social health insurance and occupational benefits. Dissertation University of Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-7255-3255-9 .
2. ↑ Aeschlimann is the new President of the Federal Supreme Court. Susanne Leuzinger-Naef becomes deputy , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 4, 2006.
3. ↑ Lorenz Meyer becomes the highest Swiss judge , 20 Minuten Online, December 3, 2008.
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Website of the SVR ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.