Professor Emeritus of Civil Law and Private International Law, University of Basle; Senior Partner of VISCHER, Attorneys at law, and Honorary President of the Institute for European Studies, University of Basel
Legal philosophy; criminal law theory; criminal justice and criminology; legal conceptual analysis especially the concept of the person; feminist legal theory
The private law of obligations; comparative common law; compensation systems; judicial reasoning and the philosophical foundations of the common law in areas such as causation and the duty of care
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