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
Family law with particular emphasis on the law relating to children, and to issues of children's rights; and medicine, ethics and the law, with a particular focus on medically assisted reproduction
Sociolegal studies and contemporary political theory; specialising in state activism (particularly in British local government); gender and sexuality equality governance; everyday utopias and prefigurative institutions; and new conceptual methodologies
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