| Sep.-Dec. 2025 |
Research semester at Stellenbosch University Chair of Urban Law and Sustainability Governance (South Africa) |
| Sep. 2025 |
Awarded the Grand Walther Hug Prize |
| 2025 |
Appointed membre associé de l'Institut de Droit international |
| Nov. 2024 |
Annual Prize of the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation |
| Oct. 2024 |
Awarded the title of Dr honoris causa by the University of Geneva |
| June 2024 |
Nominated as part of the project “75 women in 75 years of Council of Europe history” |
| Nov. 2021 |
Madame de Staël Prize of the European Academies |
| Dec. 2020 |
Taking of office at the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Oct. 2020 |
Annual Prize of the Foundation for Western Ethics and Culture |
| Nov. 2018 |
Honorary Doctorate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Fribourg. |
| Oct. 2011 |
Taking of office at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg. |
| April 2011 |
Elected by the Parlamentary Assembly as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights. |
| Sept. 2010 |
Re-election to the UN Human Rights Council with the third-best result. |
| Jan.-June 2010 |
Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Oslo, Norway. |
| Jan. 2010 |
Counsel in the law firm Lindt. |
| Jan.-Aug. 2009 |
Visiting Researcher at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, working on “Friendly Settlements before the European Court of Human Rights” (published by OUP, ISBN 978-0-19-960097-7). |
| 2008-2011 |
Member of the Human Rights Committee (monitoring body of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights dealing with concluding observations and individual petitions). |
| 2005-2008 |
Management of the research project “Reception of the ECHR in Europe” (costs: 200’000.- SFR, 11 authors, 3 editing assistants, 852 pages; published by OUP, ISBN 978-0-19-953526-2). |
| since 2004 |
Professor (ordinaria) at the University of Zurich of Constitutional, European and Public International Law |
| Aug. 2003 |
Birth of a son, Markus Lukas. |
| Jan. 2002 |
Habilitation, University of Zurich. Degree: Private Dozentin (PD). |
| Feb. 2001 |
Professor (ordinaria) at the University of Lucerne of Constitutional, European and International Law. |
| 2001 |
Visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg (Germany). |
| Feb. 2000 |
Birth of a son, Matthias Paul. |
| 1996-2002 |
Management of the research project “Commentary to Swiss Environmental Protection Law” (costs: 2 M SFR, 16 authors, 3 editing assistants, 2,500 pages of commentary, ISBN 3 7255 4544 8). |
| 1996-2009 |
Counsel in the law firm “Umbricht”, Zurich. |
| 1996 |
Research Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy), Supervisor Prof. Renaud Dehousse. |
| 1995 |
Research fellow at Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, MA (United States). Supervisors: Prof. Joseph H.H. Weiler and Prof. Anne-Marie Slaughter. |
| 1995 |
Married to Ulrich Schmid, now Professor of Slavic languages at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. |
| 1994 |
LL.M. Degree in European Law from the Collège d'Europe in Bruges, Belgium (Scholarship of the Homburger law firm, Zürich) . |
| 1994 |
Awarded “Walter-Hug-Preis” for one of the best doctoral theses in public law in Switzerland. |
| 1993 |
Doctorate, University of Zurich (Degree: Dr. iur.); Doctor's Diploma, Dissertation. |
| 1992-1994 |
Assistant to Prof. Heribert Rausch, University of Zurich. |
| 1989-1992 |
Assistant to Prof. Alfred Kölz, University of Zurich |
| 1983-1989 |
Studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich. |
| 1964 |
Born in Winterthur, Switzerland. |