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Dr Gieri Bolliger, PhD

2nd December 2020

is an Attorney-at-Law and began working for the Stiftung für das Tier im Recht (TIR; Foundation for the Animal in the Law) in Zurich/Switzerland in 2000. He has been TIR’s executive director since 2007. Since publishing his dissertation on European Animal Law in 2000 (summa cum laude), he has worked as an editor, author and co-author, and has written twelve books, including “Das Tier im Recht – 99 Facetten der Mensch-Tier Beziehung von A bis Z” (2003), the short commentary “Schweizer Tierschutzstrafrecht in Theorie und Praxis” (2011, fully revised edition in 2019), the monograph “Sexualität mit Tieren (Zoophilie) – eine rechtliche Betrachtung” (2011), and the English book “Animal Dignity Protection in Swiss Law – Status Quo and Future Perspectives” (2016). In addition, he has published various expert opinions and more than 200 articles on national and international animal law. In 2013, Gieri Bolliger was the first non-American lawyer to complete the postgraduate “Master of Animal Law” (LL.M.) at the Center for Animal Law Studies (CALS) at the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland (Oregon/USA). In 2014/2015 he was also the first “International Visiting Research Scholar” at CALS. Since 2005 he has held a teaching position for animal law at the University of Zurich. He has also taught animal law at the law schools of Lucerne, Barcelona, and Portland and has lectured on the legal aspects of the human-animal relationship at countless conferences and training events in Switzerland and abroad. From 1999 to 2009, Gieri Bolliger was also a member and animal welfare delegate of the Zurich Animal Testing Committee and, from 2011 to 2015, of the Zurich Animal Welfare Committee.