Stefan Schlegel (*1983) is a jurist. He was research assistant to Prof Walter Kälin and Prof Alberto Achermann at the University of Berne and obtained his doctorate in 2017 with a thesis on migration law. In 2015 Stefan Schlegel completed a research stay at the University of Toronto, and from 2016 to 2018 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for the study of Multi-ethnic and Multireligious Societies in Göttingen. From 2019 to 2021, he was a senior research assistant at the University of Berne. Since 2021, he has been working on a habilitation project on the scope of protection of the property guarantee and new forms of property, which is sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Stefan Schlegel studied at the University of Zurich and the Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University.

In addition to his scientific work, Stefan Schlegel has always been strongly involved in civil society. During his time as a research assistant, he was a member of the legal group of Amnesty International Switzerland, where he was particularly involved in conveying the value of the European Convention on Human Rights. In 2009 he co-founded the foreign policy think tank "foraus" and set up its migration programme. In 2014 he helped found the political movement "Operation Libero" and has been on its board ever since. With the commencement of his duties as Director of SHRI, he retired from the board.

Stefan Schlegel grew up in the St Gall Rhine valley and now lives in Berne.

Stefan Schlegel is responsible for the priority topic "Democracy and human rights".

Languages: German, French, English, basics in Spanish

stefan.schlegel@isdh.ch