Andrea Büchler#
Membership Number: | 5808 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | LAW |
Elected: | 2021 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Homepage(s): | http://www.rwi.uzh.ch/buechler |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2002 Chair of Private and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Zurich
- Since 2008 Director of the Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Legal Studies, University of Zurich (CIMELS)
- 2008/2009 Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
- 2011 Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
- 2011/2012 Fellow at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study in Law and Justice, NYU
- 2009 - 2016 Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum ETH/UZH
- Since 2015 Vice Dean for International Relations, Faculty of Law, University of Zurich
- Since 2016 President of the National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics
- 2017 Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna
- Since 2021 Director of the University Research Priority Program "Human Reproduction Reloaded | H2R"
Fields of Scholarship
- Family law
- Law & technology
- Legal philosophy
- Medical law
- Law on reproductive medicine
- Comparative law
- Islamic and Middle Eastern law
- Law on medical ethics
- Gender law
- Private law
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Honorary Doctorate, University of Vienna
- Since 2020 Member of the Senate of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMV/ASSM)
- 2011/2012 Fellow at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study in Law and Justice, NYU
- 2008/2009 Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study Berlin