University of Zurich

Treichlerstrasse 10

CH-8032 Zürich, Switzerland
Offices DOL G 06-G 08 
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Please note that we have reduced our presence in the office due to the current situation. We therefore kindly ask you to contact us via email. Thank you for your understanding. 

Tel:	+41 (0)44 634 15 84/86/69
Fax:	+41 (0)44 634 43 91
Email (secretariat):	lst.mahlmann@rwi.uzh.ch
Office hours:	Please book an appointment via OLAT

During the semester we can be contacted via telephone from Mon - Fri, 10-12 a.m.

Information on academic courses

Recent publications

Podcasts

Fall Semester 2021: Seminars

Justice, Violence, War, and Crime – New Perspectives from Psychology, Behavioural Economics, Evolutionary Theory, and Neuroscience?, with Prof. Stephen J. Morse (University of Pennsylvania Law School). 

Seminar Schuld und Freiheit in Recht und Literatur, with author and playwright Lukas Bärfuss

Was hat Gott eigentlich noch in unserer Verfassung verloren?

Interview with Lukas Meyer, Blue News, 04.04.2021

Law and literature in the current edition of UZH Magazine

Prof. Matthias Mahlmann and Lukas Bärfuss in conversation with UZH Magazine on the complex relationship of law and literature (in German).  

«Begnadigung bedeutet keine Urteilskorrektur»

Prof. Matthias Mahlmann on presidential pardons in the radio show Echo der Zeit on SRF (Swiss Radio and Television), 20.01.2021. 

«Es wird nicht bestraft, was man denkt, sondern was man tut»

Interview on the anti-racism law with Prof. Mahlmann, in: Beobachter, 30.01.2020

Selbstbestimmung im deutschen Grundgesetz

Demokratie ohne Rechtsstaat?

Mind and Rights - Public talk of Prof. Mahlmann at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights

On February 8th, 2022, Professor Mahlmann held a public talk concerning the topic of "Mind and Rights – Why Human Rights Have Deep Roots in Human Psychology, History, Ethics, and Law" at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights of the Oxford Law Faculty. The talk presents central theses of Professor Mahlmann's forthcoming book "Mind and Rights. Why Human Rights have Deep Roots in Human Psychology, History, Ethics, and Law", to be published 2022 by Cambridge University Press. The talk may be viewed here.

Rechte der Nachgeborenen - Public lecture by Lukas Bärfuss on 18 November 2021

Conference "Remaking the UK Constitution: Politics and Process" 

Prof. Matthias Mahlmann was invited as a speaker and panellist at the "Conference on Remaking the UK Constitution: Politics and Process", organised by the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights (University of Oxford), 22./23.02.2019.  

Conference flyer

Presentation and panel discussion (session 4: The flexibility of a new constitution)

Hedi Fritz-Niggli Visiting Professor at the University of Zurich

Prof. Martha C. Nussbaum (University of Chicago) was the Hedi Fritz-Niggli Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Zurich, in December 2018.

Prof. Martha C. Nussbaum, 19.12.2018: "Anger, Powerlessness, and the Politics of Blame"

SVRSP Rousseau Lectures 2017