Chairs/Professors by Subject Group

The list below contains all the professors of the Faculty of Law (faculty members) sorted by their respective subject groups.

Table of contents

Foundational Subjects
Civil and Procedural Law
Trade and Business Law
Criminal Law
Public Law: Constitutional Law, Administrative and International Law

Foundational Subjects

Prof. Dr. iur. José Luis Alonso Chair in Roman Law, Legal Papyrology and Private Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Tilmann Altwicker Chair in Legal Data Science and Public Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Ulrike Babusiaux Chair in Roman Law, Private Law and Comparative Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Dres. h.c. Wolfgang Ernst Full Professor emeritus ad personam in Roman Law and Private Law (emeritus since 2021)	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina Associate professor ad personam in Legal History, Contemporary Legal History, History of International Law, and Comparative Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Christoph Beat Graber Chair in Legal Sociology with particular focus on Media Laws	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. rer. pol. Yoan Hermstrüwer Chair in Legal Tech, Law and Economics and Public Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Johannes Liebrecht Chair in History of Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Matthias Mahlmann Chair in Philosophy and Theory of Law, Legal Sociology and International Public Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Andreas Thier Chair in Legal History, Ecclesiastical Law, Legal Theory and Private Law	Contact Homepage

Civil and Procedural Law

Prof. Dr. iur. Ruth Arnet Chair in Private Law with a focus on Property Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. h.c. Yeşim M. Atamer Chair in Private, Commercial, European and Comparative Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Samuel P. Baumgartner Chair in Civil Procedure, Comparative Civil Procedure, Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law, Private Law, and Mediation	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Walter Boente Chair in Private Law with focus on the Swiss Civil Code	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Alessia Dedual Chair in Private Law with a focus on the Code of Obligations, Comparative Law, Law and Economics	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Tanja Domej Chair in Civil Procedure, Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law	Contact Hompage
Prof. Dr. iur. Lorenz Droese Chair in Civil Procedure and Private Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Ulrich Haas Full Professor ad personam in Civil Procedure and Private Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Helmut Heiss Chair in Private Law with a focus on the Law of Obligations, Comparative Law and Private International Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Dominique Jakob Chair in Private Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Leander D. Loacker Chair in Private and Business Law, Private International Law, International Civil Procedure and Comparative Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Alice Margaria Associate Professor in Legal Questions Pertaining to Reproduction and Human Genetics	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Margot Michel Chair in Privat Law, Comparative Law, Animal Welfare Act and Philosophy of Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Wolfgang Portmann Former Chair in Labour Law and Private Law (emeritus since 2020)	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur Roger Rudolph Chair in Labour Law and Private Law	Contact Homepage

Trade and Business Law

Prof. Dr. iur. Kern Alexander Chair in International Banking, Financial Law, and Chair for Law and Finance	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Aline Darbellay Chair in Commercial and Business Law, Banking and Capital Markets Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Marco Dell'Erba Associate Professor ad personam in Financial Market Law and Corporate Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Andreas Heinemann Chair in Commercial, Economic and European Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Andreas Kellerhals Full Professor emeritus ad personam in Legal Education, Business Law, European Law and Private Law (emeritus since 2024)	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Julia Nicolussi Chair in Commercial and Economic Law, Company Law, Economic and Comparative Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Peter Picht Chair in Commercial, Competition, and Intellectual Property Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Rolf Sethe Chair in Private, Business and Commercial Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Florent Thouvenin Chair in Information and Communication Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Hans-Ueli Vogt Chair in Private and Business Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Rolf H. Weber Former Chair in Private and Commercial Law and European Law (emeritus since 2016)	Contact Homepage

Criminal Law

Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Dirk Baier Associate professor ad personam in criminology	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Felix Bommer Chair in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law and International Criminal Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Gian Ege Assistant professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Gunhild Godenzi Chair in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Daniel Jositsch Chair in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Christian Schwarzenegger Chair in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law and Criminology	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Sarah Summers Chair in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law and Criminology	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. utr. Brigitte Tag Chair in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law and Medical Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Marc Thommen Chair in Swiss Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, White Collar Crime and Administrative Criminal Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Nadine Zurkinden Chair in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law with a focus on International Criminal	Contact Homepage

Public Law: Constitutional Law, Administrative and International Law

Prof. Dr. iur. Giovanni Biaggini Chair in Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and European Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Oliver Diggelmann Chair in International Law, European Law, Public Law, and Political Philosophy	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Thomas Gächter Chair in Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Social Security Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Andreas Glaser Chair in Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and European Law with Focus on Democracy	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Alain Griffel Chair in Constitutional Law and Administrative Law with Focus on Spatial Planning Law, Construction Law and Environmental Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Christine Kaufmann Chair in Public Law, Public International Law and European Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Helen Keller Chair in Public Law, European and International Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. rer. publ. Dr. iur. h.c. Andreas Kley Former Chair in Public Law, Constitutional History, and Philosophy of Law and of the State (emeritus since 2024)	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Lorenz Langer Associate Professor in Public and International Law with Focus on European Democracy	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. René Matteotti Chair in Swiss, European, and International Tax Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Daniel Moeckli Chair in International Law and Constitutional Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Matthias Oesch Chair in Public Law, European Law, and International Economic Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Johannes Reich Chair of Public Law, Environmental Law, and Energy Law	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. Felix Uhlmann Chair in Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Theory of Legislation	Contact Homepage
Prof. Dr. iur. et Dr. med. Kerstin Noëlle Vokinger Chair in Law and Medicine - Academic Chair for Regulation in Law, Medicine and Technology	Contact Homepage