Professor Doris Forster
Doris Forster was appointed Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva in 2020. Her research areas include the unification and reception of law, legal pluralism in the past and present and religious law.
She studied law at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Warwick University (UK) (Certificate in English Law) and the University of Constance (Erste Juristische Staatsprüfung). Prof. Doris Forster received her doctorate in law (2015) from the University of Constance with a thesis on "Ona'ah und laesio enormis - Preisgrenzen im talmudischen und römischen Kaufrecht". Her thesis was awarded the prize of 42. Deutscher Rechtshistorikertag. During her dissertation, she was a member of the Exzellenzcluster "Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration" at the University of Constance.
Prof. Forster subsequently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the same university and was a visiting scholar at the University of Bologna. In addition, she spent time at various institutes for her research (University of La Sapienza (Rome), Institute of Roman Law (University of Paris II, Panthéon-Assas), Leopold-Wenger-Institut (LMU München)), including a master's degree in Roman and Oriental Law ("Corso di alta Formazione in diritto romano", La Sapienza, Rome).
After two years of practice at Siemens LLC (Dubai/Abu Dhabi, UAE) and the law firm CMS Hasche Sigle, she passed the second state legal examination in 2015 (Zweite Juristische Staatsprüfung).
Professor Doris Forster is a member of the Assembly of the University of Geneva, of the Conseil participatif of the Faculty of Law and was a substitute member of the Equality Commission of the same faculty (2021-2022).
On the academic level, she is a member of the International Fernand de Visscher Society for the History of Ancient Rights (SIHDA), of the Forum für den Vergleich der Rechtsdiskurse der Religionen (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg) and of the Steering Committee of the Centre for European Legal Studies (Centre d’excellence Jean Monnet) of the University of Geneva.