Prof. Dr. iur. Markus Schefer, LL.M. - Professor for constitutional and administrative law

• 2019 - 2022: Member of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• 2015 - 2016: Visiting researcher at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
• 2013 - 2015: Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Basel
• 2010: Visiting Professor at the National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Cochin, India
• 2008 - 2010: Assistant lecturer for federal state law at the University of St. Gallen
• 2003 - 2009: Faculty member of the Paris Institute of Tulane University Law School, New Orleans, U.S.A.
• 2003/2004: Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Basel
• since 2001: Full Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Basel
• 2001: Habilitation at the University of Bern, venia docendi for public law, comparative constitutional law and legal methodology
• 2000 + 2001: Lectureship at the University of Basel for public law
• 1998 - 2000: Scholarship of the Swiss National Science Foundation for a habilitation project
• 1995: Doctorate (Dr. iur.) at the University of Bern (summa cum laude)
• 1993 - 1998: Assistant/Oberassistent at the Department of Public Law at the University of Bern, Chair of Prof. Jörg Paul Müller
• 1992 - 1993: Studies at the University of California at Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall) and at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. (LL.M.)
• 1992: Professor Heinrich Kronstein Fellowship Foundation
• 1988/89 and 1991/92: Assistant lecturer/assistant at the Department of Public Law at the University of Bern, Chair of Prof. Jörg Paul Müller
• 1985 - 1990: Law studies at the University of Bern (licentiate)

• Constitutional law (especially fundamental rights and comparative constitutional law)
• Theory of state and constitutional theory
• Administrative law
• Disability Equality Law