
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Record
6/1994
- Graduation as Licentiata iuris (Lic. iur.) from the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Berne, Switzerland (magna cum laude)
- Faculty award for the third best graduation in law in summer term 1994 (June 29, 1994)
6/2005
- Graduation as Doctor iuris (Dr.iur.) from the Faculty of Law at the University of Berne, Switzerland (summa cum laude)
- "Dogmatische Begründung des Haushaltschadens - Ein Beitrag zur haftpflichtrechtlichen Behandlung unentgeltlicher Tätigkeiten", Abhandlungen zum schweizerischen Recht (ASR) Bd. 717, Stämpfli Verlag AG Berne 2006
- awarded by the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Haftpflicht- und Versicherungsrecht (SGHVR) (September 8, 2006)
Professional Career
8/1994-9/2002
- Research and teaching assistant at the Institute for Civil Law at the University of Berne (co-director: Prof. Dr. iur. Thomas Koller, Professor for Private Law and Social Security Law, in consideration of Tax Law); main field: Private Law, in consideration of Social Security Law and Tax Law
10/2002-06/2014
- Researcher/Senior Researcher at the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL), Vienna (managing and executive director: o. Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dr. DDr. h.c. Helmut Koziol)
07/2014- 06/2015
- Senior Scientist at the Institute for European Tort Law of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Graz (acting director: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ernst Karner)
07/2015- 03/2016
- Senior Scientist at the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL), Vienna (managing and executive director: o. Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dr. DDr. h.c. Helmut Koziol)
since 03/2016
- Senior Post-Doc at the Institute for European Tort Law of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Graz (director: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ernst Karner)
Main Areas of Research
Main Areas of Research
- Swiss and European tort law
- Comparative law
- Private law
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
- Dogmatische Begründung des Haushaltschadens - Ein Beitrag zur haftpflichtrechtlichen Behandlung unentgeltlicher Tätigkeiten, Abhandlungen zum schweizerischen Recht (ASR) Bd. 717, Stämpfli Verlag AG Berne 2006
- Rechtsvergleichende Aspekte der Haftung bei mangelnder staatlicher Aufsicht und Kontrolle - am Beispiel der Bankenaufsicht in der Schweiz sowie in Österreich und Deutschland, Zeitschrift des Bernischen Juristenvereins (ZBJV) 2009, 137-185
- Compensation for Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Loss, in: Attila Fenyves/Ernst Karner/Helmut Koziol/Elisabeth Steiner (eds), Tort Law in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, Berlin/Boston 2011, 579-723 (co-author: Denis Kelliher, Barrister-at-Law)
- Impact of Bribery on Contracts Under Swiss Civil Law, in: Michael Joachim Bonell/Olaf Meyer (eds), The Impact of Corruption on International Commercial Contracts, Cham 2015, 351-390
- Nichtigkeit von Verträgen als Folge von Privatbestechung?, in: Susan Emmenegger/Stephanie Hrubesch-Millauer/Frédéric Krauskopf/Stephan Wolf (eds.), Brücken bauen, Festschrift für Thomas Koller, Bern 2018, 397-436