Visiting Professors

Professor Garland earned his PhD from the University of Edinburgh, a master's degree in criminology from Sheffield University, and an LLB with First Class Honours from the University of Edinburgh School of Law.

He is the Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and a professor of sociology at New York University, as well as an honorary professor of criminology at Edinburgh Law School. Professor Garland is renowned for his historical and sociological analyses of penal institutions, his studies on the welfare state, and his significant contributions to criminology, social theory, and the study of social control. He has authored several acclaimed books, including "Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies" (first published in 1985, with a new edition in 2018), "Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory" (1990), "The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society" (2001), and "Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition" (2010). These works have been translated into multiple languages.

Professor Garland's research interests encompass American punishment in a comparative perspective, crime control and criminal justice, the history and sociology of the welfare state, modern social theory, the history and sociology of punishment, and the history of criminological ideas.

Prof Dr Marc Thommen
Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, including Commercial and Administrative Criminal Law
Treichlerstrasse 10, 8032 Zürich

Tel Secretariat: +41 (0)44 634 15 31

E-mail Chair: lst.thommen@ius.uzh.ch

Prof. Botero holds a Juris Doctor (SJD) from Georgetown University, a Master of Laws (LLM) from Harvard University, and the Bar from the Universidad de los Andes, with licenses to practice law in Colombia and New York State. 

Prof. Botero's previous experience includes negotiating and litigating international trade disputes related to bilateral and multilateral trade and investment treaties signed by Colombia and conducting studies to measure comparative legal institutions in more than 100 countries - as Executive Director of the World Justice Project, Research Associate at Yale University, and as a consultant to the World Bank. 

Prof. Botero has been a visiting professor or lecturer at about a dozen universities around the world, including Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, Karolinska Institutet and the Max Planck Institute. His work has been cited or mentioned in over 2000 journals in more than 120 countries, including The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Financial Times. 

Prof. Botero's areas of research include comparative legal institutions, judicial reform, access to justice, rule of law, and business and human rights issues.

Visiting Period: Spring Semester 2024

Prof Dr Daniel Jositsch
Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure
Rämistrasse 74/25, 8001 Zurich
Office RAI F 127 (Prof Jositsch / Secretariat / Assistance)

Tel Secretariat: +41 (0)44 634 44 45

E-mail Chair: lst.jositsch@ius.uzh.ch

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, COL

Prof Dr Daniel Jositsch
Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure
Rämistrasse 74/25, 8001 Zurich
Office RAI F 127 (Prof Jositsch / Secretariat / Assistance)

Tel Secretariat: +41 (0)44 634 44 45

E-mail Chair: lst.jositsch@ius.uzh.ch