Thomas Sutter-Somm

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Thomas Claudius Sutter-Somm (* 1956 in Basel as Thomas Sutter ) is a Swiss lawyer and professor at the University of Basel .

Life

Sutter-Somm studied law at the University of Basel from 1975 to 1980 . In 1984 he also obtained his doctorate in Basel. iur. From 1983 he worked as an assistant at the University of Basel before moving to the Federal Office of Justice as a scientific adjunct in 1988 , where he initially participated in the legislative work on the data protection act . From 1990 he was initially project manager for divorce law auditing and secretary of the commission of experts. In April 1999 he was appointed by the then head of the Federal Department of Justice and Police, Federal Councilor Arnold Koller, as President of the Expert Commission for the Standardization of Swiss Civil Procedure Law. The commission he chaired, made up of representatives from cantonal courts, the Federal Supreme Court, the legal profession, and academia and administration, submitted a preliminary draft with an accompanying report at the end of 2002. The draft law drawn up by the commission and various sub-commissions was based on the following guidelines: standardization through codification, connection to cantonal tradition, courage to leave gaps or procedural law for practice, procedural law for reality, "social" private law, the cantonal court organization is fundamental not to be touched, a path that is as long as possible for all cantons, coordination with the rest of federal law. The draft law met with great approval in the consultation process, even if individual points were criticized. As a result, the draft law, which was revised by parliament, was adopted in both chambers of parliament with only one vote against. As a result, Sutter-Somm worked as an expert in Basel-Stadt on the cantonal introductory legislation and was also the lead expert for the completely revised Court Organization Act of June 3, 2015.

Sutter-Somm began teaching at the University of Freiburg in 1992 as a lecturer in the Civil Code area at the University of Freiburg i.Ue. back on. In 1997 Sutter-Somm graduated from Freiburg i.Ue. completed his habilitation procedure on the subject of Swiss legal standardization in civil procedural law at Bernhard Schnyder and received the venia legendi for the subjects of Swiss civil and civil procedural law, including the recent history of private law.

In 2000 Sutter-Somm was trained at the University of Freiburg i.Ue. appointed adjunct professor. From October 2000 to March 2002 he worked half as an assistant professor at the University of Basel and since January 2001 half as a full professor at the University of Lucerne . From April 2002 he also held a 50% full professorship at the University of Basel. Since October 2003 he has held the full professorship for civil law and civil procedural law at the University of Basel. Since 2002 he has also been a permanent visiting professor at the University of Lucerne. From 2005 to 2007 Sutter-Somm was Dean of the Basel Law Faculty. Since 2007 he has been repeatedly elected Chairman of the Regenz of the University of Basel.

Publications (selection)

  • Legal issues of organized sport with special consideration of the individual employment contract . Peter Lang, Bern 1984, ISBN 978-3-261-03449-6 (dissertation).
  • On the way to legal unity in Swiss civil procedural law: presented on the basis of the systematic principles and the relationship between federal law and cantonal civil procedural law in terms of disposition and official maxims . Schulthess Polygraphischer Verlag, Zurich 1998, ISBN 978-3-7255-3695-5 (habilitation thesis).
  • Swiss civil procedure law . 3. Edition. Schulthess, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7255-7095-9 , p. 471 .
  • Commentary on the Swiss Code of Civil Procedure . 3. Edition. Schulthess, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7255-7193-2 .
  • Swiss Private Law, Volume V / 1: Property and Possession . 2nd Edition. Helbing Lichtenhahn, Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-7190-2503-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swiss Code of Civil Procedure: Report on the preliminary draft of the expert commission. (PDF) June 2003, accessed January 27, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Dispatch of the Federal Council on the Swiss Code of Civil Procedure of June 28, 2006, Swiss Federal Gazette 2006, p. 7221 ff., In particular 7235 ff. (PDF) Accessed on January 27, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Media release of the government council of February 26, 2014. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Sutter-Somm, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sutter-Somm, Thomas Claudius (full name); Sutter, Thomas (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and professor at the University of Basel
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel