Prof. Dr. iur. Bernhard Rütsche Attorney, Of Counsel
Career
2019 - 2020
Visiting scholar at Stanford Law School, University of Stanford, California
2018 - present
Konsulent, Kaufmann Rüedi Attorneys at Law
2015 - 2019
Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Lucerne
2014
Member of the National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics
2011
Chairman of the Center for Law & Health, University of Lucerne
2010
Professor of Public Law and Philosophy of Law, University of Lucerne
2009 - 2010
SNSF Professor at the University of Zurich. Director of a research project in biomedical law
2009
Habilitation thesis (post-doctoral degree), University of Zurich
2002 - 2009
Academic employee in the Federal Office of Justice, Public Law Department, legislative consultant
2002
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D.), University of Berne
1997
Law degree (admission to the bar as attorney at law), Canton of Berne
1991 - 1997
Law studies at the Universities of Berne and Lausanne
Memberships
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Chairman of the Matura Commission of the Canton of Lucerne
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Member of the National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics
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Chairman of the Centre for Law and Health at the University of Lucerne (CLH)
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Member of the Competence Center Medicine - Ethics - Law Helvetiae (MERH) at the University of Zurich
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Member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers (VDStRL)
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Member of the Swiss Society for Legislation (SGG)
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Member of the Lawyers' Association of the Canton of St. Gallen
