Walther Hug Prize

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The "Walther Hug Prize" is a science prize organized by the "Professor Walther Hug Foundation for the Promotion of Legal Research" , which is awarded to Swiss researchers who have distinguished themselves through legal achievements.

The St. Gallen jurist Walther Hug set up a foundation named after him while he was still alive and bequeathed almost all of his assets to it after his death.

According to the foundation's statutes, people who are Swiss nationals and who work at domestic or foreign universities or at other universities or research institutes or who do free research can be considered as award winners. The professors in office at Swiss universities and colleges at the time the foundation was established (1978) are excluded.

A jury consisting of five professors chosen by the Board of Trustees, who come from five Swiss universities and represent the various disciplines, evaluates the candidates. The award, endowed with at least CHF 20,000, is  then awarded by the Board of Trustees .

The “(great) Walther Hug Prize” should not be confused with the “ Professor Walther Hug Prize ” awarded annually by the same foundation for several legal dissertations .

Award winners

The place of activity refers to the date of award.

  • 1980: Alfred Maurer , professor for social security law at the University of Bern
  • 1981: Robert Pfund , director of the federal tax administration
  • 1984: André Grisel , Federal Judge and President of the Federal Supreme Court
  • 1987: Alfred Koller , University of Freiburg
  • 1988: Gérard Piquerez , lecturer at the University of Bern and cantonal judge in the canton of Jura
  • 1989: Arthur Haefliger , Prof., Federal Judge and President of the Federal Supreme Court
  • 1993: Denise Bindschedler-Robert , Honorary Professor at the University of Geneva and President of the International Institute for Human Rights
  • 1996: Pierre Widmer , Head of the Lausanne Comparative Law Institute
  • 1998: Franz Werro , Professor of Private Law at the University of Friborg, and Thomas Koller , Professor of Private and Social Security Law at the University of Bern
  • 1999: Niklaus Schmid , professor of criminal law and criminology at the University of Zurich
  • 2001: Ivo Schwander , Professor of Private Law and International Private Law at the University of St. Gallen
  • 2003: Andreas Auer , Head of the Center d'étude et de documentation sur la démocratie directe at the University of Geneva
  • 2007: Peter Locher , professor emeritus for tax law at the University of Bern
  • 2010: Georg Müller , professor emeritus for constitutional and administrative law and legislative theory at the University of Zurich
  • 2013: Andreas Bucher , Professor of Private International Law, University of Geneva
  • 2016: Claire Huguenin , Professor of Private, Business and European Law, University of Zurich
  • 2019: Ursula Cassani , Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Geneva

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prize winners on the Foundation's website