Professor Christa Tobler


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 7738
E-Mail: r.c.tobler@law.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid, Instituut voor Publiekrecht, Afd Europees Recht
Office Address: Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw
Steenschuur 25
2311 ES Leiden
Room number B128
 
Curriculum Vitae
Prof. R.C. (Ruth Christa) Tobler is professor of European Law at the Universities of Basel ( Switzerland, www.europa.unibas.ch) and Leiden. Professor Tobler studied law at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) where she obtained her law degree in 1985. In 1989 she was awarded the Ph.D., based on a thesis on Swiss trade mark law. Thereafter Prof. Tobler worked as researcher at the Kyoto Comparative Law Center (Japan) and as a court clerk in Switzerland. In 1992 she passed the Zurich bar exam and then worked as an attorney-at-law. In 1994 she was awarded the degree „LL.M. in European Community Law” at the University of Leiden. During her studies in Leiden, she also was Winning Advocate General in the European Law Moot Court Competition (www.elmc.org). This resulted in a stage at the European Court of Justice (November 1994). Prof. Tobler then spent the first half of 1995 as a researcher in an interdisciplinary research programme at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). In August 1995 she returned to Leiden where she worked as academic coordinator of the LL.M. Programme in European Community Law. In  1998 she was appointed part-time lecturer of gender law at the University of Basel (Switzerland). In 2000, she was appointed associate professor of European Law. In 2004, Prof. Tobler finished the “Habilition” procedure, which made her eligible as regular professor for Swiss public law, European law and gender law. In 2005 she was appointed regular professor of European law at the University of Basel, and in 2007 at the University of Leiden. Prof. Tobler is a member of the editorial board of the Swiss Review of International and European Law (www.szier.ch) and of the European Commission’s Network of legal experts in the anti-discrimination field (concerning Directives 2000/43/EC and 2000/78/EC). She is also an enthusiastic Moot Court judge (regional level) for European Law Moot Court Competition (www.elmc.org).
Courses
  • The Legal Foundations of the European Union (Adv. LL.M. Programme in European and International Business Law)
  • The Internal Market (Adv. LL.M. Programme in European and International Business Law)
  • Introduction to EC law for tax lawyers (Adv. LL.M. Programme in International Taxation)