Silvan Schenkel, Dr. iur.
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Silvan Schenkel studied law at the University of Lucerne (Bachelor in 2013 and Master in 2015). Following an internship in the judiciary, he worked as a Research Assistant for the Chair of Legal History and Legal Theory in Lucerne, initially with Prof. Thomas Henne and then with Prof. Michele Luminati. From 2018 to 2022, he practiced as a jurist for the Children and Adult Protection Authorities of St. Gallen and Zurich. Silvan completed his PhD in 2021 at the University of Lucerne with a thesis on the “Deutscher Juristentag 1933” (German Conference of Lawyers 1933), for which he was awarded the annual prize of the University Association of the University of Lucerne for the best dissertation of the year. In October 2022, Silvan took up a post as Manager of the Obwaldner Institut für Justizforschung at the University of Lucerne. Since 2023, he is also a Senior Research Assistant and Teaching Fellow in Lucerne.
