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Adrian Häusler

Adrian Häusler, Dr. iur.

  • Habilitand
Room number
RAI-H-099

Research interests

  • Roman civil law, in particular the law of enforcement, procedural law and inheritance law
  • Interactions between Roman provincial law and imperial administration
  • Juristic papyrology (Ptolemaic and Roman eras)
  • History of legal doctrine, in particular modern Swiss obligations law
  • Ideological use of Roman law in legal policy discourse

Curriculum vitae

2025–2026 Habilitand (Postdoc.Mobility), Chair of Prof. Dr. José Luis Alonso, University of Zurich
2024–2025

Habilitand (Postdoc.Mobility), Chair of Roman Law and the Law of Antiquity, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw

2023 Assistant, Chair of Prof. Dr. Ulrike Babusiaux, University of Zurich
Jan. 2023

Research stay, Chair of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kaiser, Institute for Legal History and Historical Comparative Law, Romanistic Department, University of Freiburg

2022

Dr. iur. des., summa cum laude, Dissertation supervised by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Babusiaux, University of Zurich

2018–2022 Assistant, Chair of Prof. Dr. Ulrike Babusiaux, University of Zurich
2018 Attorney at law, Walder Wyss AG, Geneva
2018 Bar exam (premier brevet), Geneva
2016–2018 Substitute, Walder Wyss AG, Geneva
2015 Master of Law, University of Zurich, summa cum laude
2014–2015

Student Assistant, Chair of Prof. Dr. Ulrike Babusiaux, University of Zurich

2014

Corso di Alta Formazione in diritto romano, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Oliviero Diliberto, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

2013 RS (ABC Abwehr)
2013 Bachelor of Law, University of Zurich
2011–2013

Student Assistant, Chair of Prof. Dr. Ulrike Babusiaux, University of Zurich

Publications

Monographs

Missio in possessionem. L’envoi en possession en droit romain classique, RIDA, Liège, 2024, (844 S.).

Droit romain et romanité dans la pensée traditionnelle : le comte Joseph de Maistre. Avec une contribution bibliographique sur les écrits relatifs au comte Joseph de Maistre (1770–2018), Schulthess Verlag, Zürich, 2019, (90 S).

Essays

L’empereur parle à ses sujets hellénophones : quelques rescrits en matière d’exécution forcée, in: D. Tappy/A. Peroz (eds.), Langues et paroles du droit. Actes des journées internationales de la Société d’histoire du droit tenues à l’Université de Lausanne du 1er au 4 juin 2023, Bern 2025 (in print).

Prokeryxis and ekthesis: Structure, Regulations and Practices of Ptolemaic Public Sales, in: J. L. Alonso, I. Fargnoli (eds.), Il diritto nei papiri. Simposio in ricordo di Xavier d’Ors, Milano 2025 (in print).

Indefensio and procedural resistance within and without the edictum perpetuum, in: TR/RHD 93 (2025), 1–41.

La ricostruzione della rubrica edittale Quibus ex causis in possessionem eatur, in: Rivista di diritto romano 25 (2025), 1–39.

La procuration et le tiers: des prémices aux théories allemandes modernes, in: RHDFE (2022/2), 251–277.

La procuration et le tiers: évolution du droit suisse, in: SJZ/RSJ 6 (2021), 282–294.

Droit romain et rhétorique maistrienne. D’un usage ironique de la loi des Douze Tables à l’héritage politique romain, in: B. Berthier/M. Kohlhauer/A.-S. Nardelli (éd.), Joseph et Xavier de Maistre écrivains [Revue des études maistriennes 16], 2021, 45–70.

D. 50,9,6 (Scaev. 1 dig.): Auslegung eines statthalterisch veranlassten Stadtgesetzes? in: ZRG rom. Abt. 137 (2020), 244–255.

Letztwillige Verfügungen in griechischer Sprache bei Q.C. Scaevola, Paulus und Modestinus, in: ZRG RA 133 (2016), 420–444.

Reviews

Quintijn Mauer, Application, Adaptation and Rejection. The strategies of Roman jurists in responsa concerning Greek documents, Boom juridisch, Bodegraven 2022. XV + 285 S., ISBN 9-789-46236-291-8, in: ZRG rom. Abt. 141 (2024), 587–597.

Tatiana Alexeeva, Diritto romano attuale e costituzione: prospettive geopolitiche, Roma e Eurasia. Vorwort von Riccardo Cardilli (= Collana di Studi Euroasiatici 1). Wolters Kluwer/CEDAM, Mailand 2020. XI + 201 S., ISBN 9788813372804, in: ZRG rom. Abt. 139 (2022), 411–420.

Other

Recommandations sur le protocole épistolaire proposé par le Comité du Jeune Barreau de l’Ordre des avocats de Genève, ODAGE 2018, 27pp. (mit Guillaume Braidi/Nicolas Gurtner/Hadrien Mangeat).

Hommage à Pierre-Antoine Berryer (1790–1868), in : Sous toutes réserves, printemps 2018, no 31, 13.

Presentations

'Unsuccessful in ius vocatio', International Memorial Course Marko Petrak. Roman Legal Tradition and Contemporary Legal Systems. Roman legal procedure and its legacy, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 24th 2025.
'Paradeixisenechurasiaprosbolê: Ptolemaic debt enforcement within Greek legal history', 8th Meeting of Young Historians of Greek Law, organised by Athina Dimopoulou/Edward M. Harris, Athens, September 12th 2025.

'Distraint and forfeiture in Rome and in Alexandria. A plurality of debt execution practices', SIHDA, Budapest, August 27th 2025.

'Publicity and third-party intervention (antiphônesis, aphairesis, exômosia) in Ptolemaic auction practices', Seminario romanistico, University of Warsaw, June 13th 2025.

'Punishment of indefensio: edictal provision or praetor’s discretionary power?', SIDHA, Osaka, September 26th 2024.

'La rubrica edittale Quibus ex causis in possessionem eatur nelle ricostruzioni di Rudorff e Lenel', Laboratorio Romanistico Gardesano, Gargnano, June 13th 2023.

'L’empereur parle à ses sujets hellénophones : quelques rescrits en matière d’exécution forcée', Langues et paroles du droit. Journées internationales de la Société d’histoire du droit, Lausanne, June 2nd 2023.

'Créanciers et débiteurs en Égypte romaine : un exemple de pérennité du droit ptolémaïque', Schweizer Vereinigung für Altertumswissenschaft (SVAW)/Association suisse pour l'étude de l'Antiquité (ASEA), Neuchâtel, May 7th 2022.

'Wenn der Beklagte nicht mitwirkt – Indefensionsfolgen im römischen Recht', Zürcher Ausspracheabenden zur Rechtsgeschichte (ZAA), Zurich, April 22nd 2022.

Memberships and awards

Member of the SVAW / ASEA (Schweizerische Vereinigung für Altertumswissenschaft/Association suisse pour l’étude de l’Antiquité)

2024–2026 Postdoc.Mobility scholarship holder of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
2022 ZAZH Prize 2022 (for a particularly promising young researcher project: in this case, a dissertation), awarded by the Zurich Centre for Ancient Studies
2018 Premier brevet (bar exam with best results), Geneva
2016

Scholarship holder of the XIII Collegio di Diritto Romano: "Le Istituzioni di Gaio: avventure di un bestseller. Trasmissione, uso e trasformazione del testo", under the direction of Prof. Dr. Dario Mantovani, Almo Collegio Borromeo, Pavia

2015 Semester prize from the University of Zurich (Master's thesis)
2013 Semester prize from the University of Zurich (Bachelor's thesis)
2009 Collonge-Bellerive Municipality Award for the Matura Certificate, Collège de Candolle, Geneva