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Mr Daniel THÜRER
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Education and academic and other qualifications:
Dr.iur., Dr.rer.publ.h.c., LLM (Cambridge), Chair of
International, European, Public and Comparative
Constitutional Law, University of Zurich
(Switzerland), Emeritus since 2010
1970: JD, University of Zurich (“summa cum laude”)
1971: Studies at the Geneva University Law School
and the St. Gallen University of Business
Administration
1972: SJD. and LLM studies at the University of
Cambridge (Darwin College), United Kingdom (British
Council Scholarship)
1974: LLM, University of Cambridge
1974: Doctor of Law, University of Zurich (“summa
cum laude”)
1976-79: Research Fellow (“Referent”) at the
Max-Planck-lnstitute of Public International Law and
Comparative Public Law, Heidelberg (Germany)
1979-81: Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Law School,
Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
Professional activities
1981-83: Legal Advisor of the Government of the
Canton of Aargau (Switzerland)
1983: Professor of International, European,
Constitutional and Administrative Law at the
University of Zurich
1989: Visiting Research Professor, Harvard Law
School
1989: Chair of International, European,
Constitutional and Administrative Law at the
University of Zurich, Co-director of the Institute
of Public International Law and Comparative
Constitutional Law, University of Zurich
1989-2000: Member of the Supreme Court of the
Principality of Liechtenstein
1991: Member of the International Committee of the
Red Cross
1991: Founding President of the Swiss Section of the
International Commission of Jurists
1992: Founding Director of the “Europa Institut
Zürich”
1992: Board of Commissioners of the UN Claims
Commission Kuwait v. Irak
1992: Expert, CSCE Human Dimension (including
missions to the Czech and Slovak Republics, Moldova
and Ukraine)
1993: Government Expert for the Total Revision of
the Federal Constitution
1994: Member of the International Commission of
Jurists (Headquarter in Geneva)
1996: Visiting Research Professor at the School of
Law, Stanford University, California (USA)
1996-1999: President of the Legal Commission of the
International Committee of the Red Cross
1996-2001: Alternate Member at the OSCE Court of
Arbitration and Conciliation
1997-1999: Member of the Governing Board of the
German Association of Professors for Public Law
(three members)
1998-2000: Dean of the Law Faculty of the University
of Zurich
1999: Vice President of the ‘Commission Prix Reuter’
within the International Committee of the Red Cross
2000: Member of the Advisory Board of the
Max-Planck-Institute of Comparative Public Law and
Public International Law, Heidelberg (Germany)
2000: Distinguished Visiting Professor, Hong Kong
University
2000-2001: Member of the (internationally composed)
Independent Commission of Experts Switzerland and
Second World War”
2001: Membership of the Advisory Board of the
Walther-Schücking-Institute of International Law,
Kiel (Germany)
2001: Member of the Advisory Board of the Concord
Research Center, School of Law, Israel
2002: Visiting Research Professor at the Harvard Law
School
2003: Member of the Founding Committee of the
“European Society of International Law” (Florence)
2004-today: Member of the European Commission
against Racism and Intolerance of the Council of
Europe (Strasbourg)
2004: Member and Alternate of the Executive
Committee of the International Commission of Jurists
(Headquarter in Geneva)
2004: Member of the International Court of
Arbitration, The Hague
2005: Member of the Board (Vice President) of the
German Society of International Law
2005: Consultant and Honorary Professor at the
Gujarat National Law University (India)
2005: Visiting Professor at the universities of
Paris II, Cambridge, Poznán, St. Gallen, Geneva,
Lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law,
the Institut des Droits de l’homme (Strasbourg) and
the Venice Charter of the rule of law and human
rights
2009: President of the German Society of
International Law
2009: Institut de Droit international (membre
associé)
2010: Emeritus, University of Zurich
2011: Chair, Geneva Academy of International
Humanitarian Law
Publications and other works
Numerous publications in the field of International,
European as well as Swiss and comparative public
law. Editor of three scientific journals.
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