Alexander Misic

Alexander Misic studied law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). He received a master's degree (LLM) from Cornell Law School (USA) and a doctorate degree (Dr.iur., PhD) from the Univerity of Zurich. He is currently working as a lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. In his previous position as a registrar (Gerichtsschreiber) at the Swiss Federal Supreme Court he predominantly dealt with cases regarding constitutional, administrative and criminal law. Before, he was an assistant lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights and a registrar at the Swiss Federal Administrative Court in St. Gallen (with main focus on mutual administrative assistance in tax matters between the USA and Switzerland; task force 'UBS cases'). He publishes in the fields of constitutional litigation, human rights, criminal procedure, administrative law and federalism.