Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Dr. Andrea Büchler
Current position
Chair of Private and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of
Zurich
26.11.1968
1974-1979
1979-1983
1983-1984
1984-1987
1986
1987
1987-1990
Born in St. Gallen (Switzerland), Swiss citizen
Primary School in Gordola and Herisau (Switzerland)
Secondary School in Gordola (Switzerland)
High School in Maine (USA)
Gymnasium in Locarno (Switzerland)
Swiss Gymnasium in Santiago de Chile (Chile)
Graduation, Locarno (Switzerland)
Stay abroad, development work in Nicaragua and teaching activities
at various private schools in Asia (Nepal, Thailand, Hong Kong)
Birth of my first daughter
Teacher at the Médécole, Liestal (Switzerland)
Birth of my second daughter
First languages: Italian and German
Advanced knowledge in English, French, Spanish
Basic knowledge in Arabic
1990
1990-1992
2011
Language skills
Academic Curriculum Vitae
2016
since Fall 2015
Spring 2015
2011/2012
Spring 2011
since 2009
since 2009
since 2008
2008/2009
since 2008
President of the National Advisory Committee of Biomedical Ethics
NEK
Associate Dean for International Affairs of the Law Faculty, University of Zurich
Sabbatical leave in Bangalore, India, and Swissnex San Francisco
Fellow at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study in Law and Justice, NYU
Visiting Professor at the University of California Berkeley, Boalt Hall
School of Law; Islamic and Middle Eastern Law
Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum, ETH/University of Zurich
Board member of the Swiss Academy for Humanities and Social
Sciences
Director of the Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Legal Studies,
University of Zurich
Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study Berlin
Lecturer for Civil Law at “Universitäre Fernstudien”, Switzerland
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since 2007
since 2006
2008-2010
2006/2007
since 2005
2005
2004-2008
2003-2007
2003
since 2002
2002
2002
2002
2001
2000-2002
1998
1996-1999
1996
1995
1994-1995
1990-1995
Scientific lead of the Certificate of Advanced Study programme “Fachanwalt Familienrecht” (specialisation in family law for lawyers)
Member of the scientific board;
Co-director of the University Priority Research Programme (UPRP)
Asia and Europe, University of Zurich
Lecturer, University of Lucerne (Switzerland)
Member of the steering committee and on-site director of the Law
Summer School in Cairo, in cooperation with the American University in Cairo
Cooperation with the Institute for Religion, Politics and Economy,
University of Zurich
Scientific lead of the interdisciplinary and inter-institutional research project “Children and Divorce – Current Legal Practices and
their Impact on Family Transitions” and of the project “Legal Gender
Studies – A Commented List of Sources”, both financed by the Swiss
National Science Foundation SNF
Co-Director of the Gender Studies Competence Center, University of
Zurich
Co-Founder of the Center for Family Sciences
Chair of Private and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of
Zurich
Habilitation, venia docendi in Private Law, Comparative Law and
Gender Law, University of Basle
Lecturer in Islamic Law, Faculty of Law, University of Basle
Clerk at the 2nd Civil Chamber, High Court “Obergericht”, Canton
Berne
Studies of Islamic Jurisprudence and Comparative Constitutional
Law, American University in Cairo
Lecturer in Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Basle
1999-2002
Assistant Professor (Oberassistentin) at the Faculty of
Law, University of Basle, Chair of Prof. Ingeborg Schwenzer
Promotion to Dr. iur., University of Basle, summa cum laude, winner
of the Faculty Award
Co-Initiator and scientific lead of the research project: “Stop violence.
State and Private Interventions Against Domestic Violence”; financed
by the Swiss National Science Foundation
PhD scholarship, Swiss National Science Foundation
Licentiate at the Faculty of Law, (lic.iur.), University of Basle
Research assignment, observance of criminal procedures in cases of
sexual offences on behalf of the helpline for victims of violence
Law School, University of Basle
Research interests
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National Private Law:
All aspects of family law in an interdisciplinary context; children and
law; guardianship law; inheritance law; law of persons and its interface to intellectual property; medical law, in particular questions of
liability and recent developments (reproductive medicine, genetic
examination, transplantation medicine); trans- and intersexuality;
biology, biogenetics and neuroscience and law; labor law
Comparative Law, Foreign and International Private Law:
Comparative private law; legal pluralism; family law in angloamerican legal systems; European, supranational and international
family law; personal rights in a comparative perspective, classical Islamic law and Middle Eastern law
Legal Studies as Cultural Studies and Legal Gender Studies:
Sociology of law; legal theory; inter-and transdisciplinarity; legal
gender and queer studies; equality law; legal and institutional interventions against domestic violence; cultural identity, migration, multiculturalism, integration and law; religion and law; postmodernism
and law
Membership in scientific and advisory boards, public institutions and academic
administration
President of the National Advisory Committee of Biomedical Ethics NEK
Director of the Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Legal Studies, University of Zurich
Scientific lead of the Certificate of Advanced Study programme “Fachanwalt Familienrecht” (specialisation in family law for lawyers)
Foundation Council of the Alumni Foundation of the Faculty of Law, University of Zurich
Member of the Expert Committee of the Master of Advanced Studies programme in Social Work and Law, HSA Lucerne
Member of the Executive Board and 2008-2010 Co-Director of the University Priority
Research Programme (UPRP) Asia and Europe, University of Zürich
Member of the Expert Committee of the Certificate of Advanced Study programme
“Kindesvertretung”, Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit Lucern
Member of the Steering Committee of the Law Summer School in Cairo of the Faculty of
Law of the University of Zurich, in cooperation with the American University in Cairo
Member of the Foundation Council of the Foundation for Childcare of the University and
ETH Zürich
Editor in Chief, FamPra.ch, Praxis des Familienrechts
Editor in Chief, Electronic Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (EJIMEL)
Member of the International Law Society
Member of the Association of Comparative Law
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Member of the Association of Civil Law
Member of the International Society of Family Law
Member of the German-Iranian Society of Law
Board of trustees of the Association for Arabic and Islamic Law
Member of the Center for Research and Comparative Legal Studies on Sexual Orientation
and Gender Identity
Member of the Swiss Lawyers Association
Member of the Association of Swiss Women Lawyers
Member of the Swiss Society Middle East and Islamic Cultures
Member of the Board of Children’s Lawyers “Kinderanwaltschaft Schweiz”
since 2003
2003-2006
2001-2002
Member of various committees of the Faculty of Law at the University of Zurich, amongst them the Commission for the Bologna Study
Reform and the Commission for International Affairs; Vice-President
of the Disciplinary Board of the University of Zurich; Head of the Department of Private Law (2004-2006)
Vice-President of the Parliamentary Commission on Justice, Basle
Past membership in scientific and advisory boards, public institutions and
academic administration
Board member of the Swiss Academy for Humanities and Social Sciences (2009-2012)
Graduate School Gender Studies 2008-2011: “Bodies, Sex, Gender”
Co-Director of the Gender Studies Competence Center at the University of Zurich
Founding Member and Member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Family Sciences
Member of the Equal-Opportunities-Commission between Women and Men of the Canton of Zurich
Member of the Foundation of the Battered Women’s Shelter, Basle
Vice-President of the Commission on Justice, Basle
President of the Special Commission on Integration and Migration Issues, Basle
Advisory Board of the Cantonal Bank Basle
Member of the Parliament (Grossrat) of the Canton of Basle
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