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Dr. Elias Hofstetter
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Dr. Elias Hofstetter

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Languages: German, French, English and Italian

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Dr. Elias Hofstetter counsels and represents individuals and companies primarily in criminal law (including administrative and military criminal law as well as the law of international mutual assistance and extradition), tort law and contract law. He has extensive knowledge in the field of internal investigations and, based on many years of experience, will also gladly assist you in negotiations on contracts, permits, settlements, etc. as well as in the law of foundations. In addition to other teaching activities, he is lecturer at the University of Bern (criminal law, criminal procedure); until 2017 also at University of Lucerne (criminal law). Further, he is a member of the Bar Exam Commission of the Canton of Bern and co-chairman of the criminal law section of the Bernese Bar Association. Elias Hofstetter has published primarily in the field of criminal law.

Education/career:                                                       

  • Lecturer at the University of Bern (criminal procedure) (since 2019)
  • Lecturer at the University of Bern (criminal law) (since 2008)
  • Lecturer at the University of Lucerne (criminal law) (2009-2017)
  • Partner at ambralaw (since 2006)
  • Lawyer with the Swiss Federal Banking Commission (today: Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA) (2004-2006)
  • Graduated as Dr. iur. (University of Bern) with a dissertation on international criminal law
  • Visiting postgraduate student as an SNF fellow at University of British Columbia (Vancouver/Canada) (2001-2002)
  • Employee of the legal service/Swiss Federal Foundation Supervisory Authority of the Swiss Federal Department of Home Affairs (2001)
  • Research assistant at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology (University of Bern) (2000-2001, 2002-2004)
  • Bar exam (Supreme Court of the Canton of Bern) (2000)
  • lic. iur. (University of Bern) 1998
Legal services:
  • Member of the Bar Exam Commission of the Canton of Bern
  • Co-chairman of the criminal law section of the Bernese Bar Association
  • Public Defender Military Court 2
  • Board of Trustees, Vinzenzenstiftung Berner Münster
  • Das Verfahrensrecht internationaler Strafgerichte zwischen Common Law und Civil Law (Abhandlungen zum Schweizerischen Recht, Bd. 704), Bern: Stämpli Verlag AG 2005 (zugleich Diss. BE 2004)
     
  • „Organised Crime Policies in Switzerland: Opening the Way for a New Type of Criminal Legislation“, zusammen mit K.-L. Kunz, in: Organised Crime in Europe, hrsg. v. C. Fijnaut/L. Paoli, Dordrecht: Springer 2004, S. 931-962
     
  • „Die internationale Rechtshilfe in Straf- und Zivilsachen und das Bankgeheimnis – Einführung und Grundlagen”, recht 3/2004, S. 81-91
     
  • „Sterbehilfe - eine rechtsvergleichende Betrachtung“, zus. mit M. Marti, in: Jüdische Ethik und Sterbehilfe, Eine Sammlung rabbinischer, medizinethischer, philosophischer und juristischer Beiträge, hrsg. v. P. J. Hurwitz/J. Picard/A. Steinberg, Basel: Schwabe Verlag 2006, p. 37-56, auch erschienen in Englisch als:
    “Assisted Death, A Study in Comparative Law”, in: P. J. Hurwitz/J. Picard/A. Steinberg (eds.), Jewish Ethics and the Care of End-of-Life Patients, A Collection of Rabbinical, Bioethical, Philosophical, and Juristic Opinions, Jersey City: KTAV Publishing House 2006, p. 31–55
     
  • “Der Notstand im schweizerischen Recht – Einheit in der Vielfalt?”, in: Grenzen des rechtfertigenden Notstands, hrsg. v. M. Mona/K. Seelmann, Zürich/Basel/Genf: Schulthess 2006, S. 185-201
     
  • Komm. Art. 49 VwVG (zus. mit O. Zibung), in: Praxiskommentar zum Bundesgesetz über das Verwaltungsverfahren, hrsg. v. B. Waldmann/Ph. Weissenberger, Zürich/Basel/Genf: Schulthess 2009 und 2. A. 2016
  • Annual lecturer at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Institute of Financial Services) on international legal assistance in criminal matters and bank secrecy (DAS Compliance Management) (since 2009)
  • Speaker/Lecturer on practical aspects of procedural law with University of Bern’s “law clinic”  (since 2017)
  • Other presentations