Scientist portrait
Changing power structures with law
Judith Wyttenbach is a specialist in constitutional and international law. She sees the law as an instrument for changing power structures – and not as dry as many people think. As a mother, however, she sometimes wishes she had a 36-hour day.
About the person
Prof. Dr. Judith Wyttenbach
studied at the Universities of Basel and Bern. She completed her doctorate with a dissertation on the state's fundamental rights protection obligations in favor of children and young people and habilitated with a paper on the implementation of human rights conventions in federal states.
Judith Wyttenbach is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at the University of Bern (IZFG), a board member of the Swiss Judges' Academy (CAS Judikative), the Bar Examination Commission of the Canton of Bern and the Swiss Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). Since 2024, she has been a Swiss expert on the Advisory Committee on the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.
From 2007 to 2019, she was a member of the Federal Commission for Women's Issues (FCWI) and from 2016 to 2022, she was a member of the board of the Swiss Competence Center for Human Rights (SCCHR), specializing in gender policy and the police and justice system.
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