Academic activities

Prof. Babusiaux engages in various academic teaching activities:

Roman Private Law (at the assessment level) serves as an introduction to the fundamental concepts of private law. During the fall semester, the focus is primarily on property law, while the spring semester concentrates mainly on the law of obligations.

Accompanying exercises (including a case study) take place in the spring semester and cover both parts of the lecture course.

The courses are held in german. 

For more information, please visit the UZH Course Catalogue.

The lecture in the fall semester covers the entire General Part of the Swiss Code of Obligations (OR) and is designed as a four-hour foundational course. It is intended for students in their 3rd or 5th semester ("Aufbaustufe"). 

The course is held in german. 

For more information, please visit theUZH Course Catalogue.

This course takes place in the fall semester and is designed to equip students with a methodologically grounded understanding of approaches to comparative private law. It begins with an introduction—based on selected key readings—to the historical development of comparative law and the evolution of its methodological frameworks (Babusiaux). Building on this foundation, the course will explore specific domains, in particular contract law (Doralt), property law and real securities (Alonso), as well as land registration law (Fiocchi), and the law of succession, with special focus testamentary freedom and forced heirship (Liebrecht), in order to illustrate and apply methodological considerations in concrete legal contexts.

The course is held in english. 

For more information, please visit theUZH Course Catalogue.

The basic principles of modern private law were developed in “scholarly law” when the young European universities (e.g. Bologna) began to study the texts of Roman jurists. Legal concepts, systems, and methods developed in the study of ancient texts were adopted in legal practice (“reception”) throughout much of Europe (“ius commune”). This law, which had been developed over centuries, was used from the end of the 18th century onwards as material for the creation of national civil law codifications, including the Swiss OR (1881/83) and the ZGB (1907/12).

The course is held in german. 

For more information, please visit theUZH Course Catalogue.

Prof. Babusiaux regularly offers seminars and supervises dissertations in the fields of Roman law, private law, and comparative private law.