Professor Regina Kiener receives two Honorary Doctorates#
Regina Kiener MAE, elected as member of the Law section of Academia Europaea in 2021, received two Honorary Doctorates, one from the University of Fribourg and one from the University of Basel, both in Switzerland.The Honorary Doctorate by the University of Fribourg
"pays tribute to her exceptional scientific merits in the field of Swiss public law, as well as to her long-standing commitment to democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights in Switzerland and Europe".
The Honorary Doctorate
from the University of Basel honours Prof. Kiener for having for many years tirelessly and with great dedication worked to uphold fundamental rights and the rule of law protecting the independence of the judiciary. Regina Kiener, as scholar, has fundamentally shaped and further developed the understanding of fundamental rights, constitutional law of the judiciary, and public procedural law and set standards through her unwavering commitment to a just and humanitarian society.
About Regina Kiener#
Regina Kiener is Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Zurich Faculty of Law. She has also held positions as a professor at the University of Bern and as a visiting professor at the Hebrew University, and taught, inter alia, at the Swiss Centre of Competence for Public Management, the Swiss Judges Academy, and the Swiss Police Institute.
Regina Kiener’s focus is on constitutional rights, human rights, the judiciary, and procedural law. Her scholarly work has been complemented by service as consultant to a number of governmental and nongovernmental organizations, including the Swiss Departments of Justice and of Foreign Affairs, the Federal Parliament, Transparency International Switzerland, OSCE / Max Planck Minerva Research Group, the Council of Europe, or USAID. As from 2013, Regina Kiener has been a member of the Council of Europe’s Commission for Democracy through Law (“Venice Commission) where she served as rapporteur for legal opinions on Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, North Macedonia, Poland, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine. Regina Kiener is a member of the admissions committee for the corps diplomatique within the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, and a judge at the Aargau Court of Judicial Supervision and Administration.
Regina Kiener has served on the boards of several NGOs working in the fields of human rights and public health, inter alia, the Human Rights Centre at the University of Zurich, the Swiss chapter of the International Commission of Jurists or the Bern Information Centre for Undocumented Migrants.
