Prof. Dr Bruno Pasquier

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Bruno Pasquier is an associate professor of private law in the Faculty of Law at UniDistance Suisse.

He pursued his legal studies at the University of Fribourg, earning a Bachelor of Law in 2008 and a Master of Law in 2009. In 2011, he was admitted to the Bar of the Canton of Aargau. His doctoral thesis, focusing on the determination of damages by the judge under Article 42, Paragraph 2 of the Swiss Code of Obligations, was published in 2014. Following his experience as a lawyer at a Bern-based law firm, he conducted postdoctoral research in Hamburg and Berkeley, where he also obtained an LL.M. degree. In 2019, he successfully completed his habilitation at the University of Fribourg with a comprehensive study on contracts in bankruptcy. Throughout his academic journey, he has served as a lecturer at the School of Management of Fribourg, the Zurich University of Applied Science and the University of Fribourg. Furthermore, since 2021, he has been appointed as a deputy judge at the Fribourg Cantonal Court