Personal details - nationality: Swiss
- languages: German, English, French
Occupational education - Certified Specialist for Civil Liability and Insurance Law by the Swiss Bar Association (SBA)
- Certified Specialist for Criminal Law by the Swiss Bar Association (SBA)
- Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) University of Lucerne
- licensed attorney in the Canton of Lucerne, approved for Switzerland
- internships at the public prosecutor’s office of the Canton Lucerne and at the district court of the city of Lucerne
- specialized publication of the dissertation: monthly magazine for Criminology and Penal Reform, 82nd year, issue 5, published 1999 by Carl Heymanns Köln
- PhD at the University of Berne (magna cum laude), Professorial Chair by Prof. Dr. Karl-Ludwig Kunz
- graduated in law from the University of Berne
| Professional experience - practicing attorney since January 2001
- lecturer at the University of Lucerne (summer semester 2004)
- extraordinary judge at the Cantonal Court of Nidwalden
- extraordinary federal prosecutor
- judge at the Administrative Court of Nidwalden
- clerk at the District Court of the city of Lucerne
- extraordinary judge at the District Court of the city of Lucerne
- member of the Ethics Court of the Lucerne Bar Association
- chairman of the board of trustees of a pension fund
Memberships - admitted to the bar of the canton of Lucerne, approved for Switzerland
- legal Aid Office for Accident Victims and Patients (Rechtsberatungsstelle U.P.)
- association of bar-certified Specialists for Civil Liability and Insurance Law by the Swiss Bar Association (SBA)
- center for Civil Liability, Private Law and Insurance Law (HAVE/REAS)
- PEOPIL PAN-European Organization of Personal Injury-Lawyers
- association of bar-certified Specialists for Criminal Law by the Swiss Bar Association (SBA) (strafverteidiger.ch)
- On-Call Criminal Defence Association Lucerne
- court appointed criminal defence attorney (canton of Lucerne)
- Democratic Jurists
- Lucerne and Swiss Bar Association
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