Prof. Dr Thierry Godel
Thierry Godel is an assistant professor at the Law Faculty of UniDistance Suisse.
He obtained his doctorate in law from the University of Fribourg and is a graduate of the École romande pour la magistrature pénale in Neuchâtel. He is also a lecturer at the École romande en administration judiciaire (since 2018) and in the Military Justice (since 2011) as part of the training provided to members of the judicial authorities. He was a lecturer at the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Fribourg (2010-2021).
His research projects in criminal law focus on violence and extremism (including in relation to new technologies). As part of his habilitation thesis, he is particularly interested in issues relating to the chain of responsibility (causality and criminal capacity), whether individual, corporate or collective. He has published a number of reference works in the field of general criminal law and military criminal law.
As a practitioner, Thierry Godel was a investigating judge in the Military Justice (2011 to 2015) and deputy head of the legal department of the Office of the Armed Forces Attorney General (2015 to 2018). He is a prosecutor (auditor) since 2021.
News
The prohibition for Swiss nationals to serve in foreign armed forces: Professor Thierry Godel’s new book is published on Weblaw
Teaching
M02 |
Droit pénal 1, partie générale
Bachelor en droit
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M02 |
Functions at UniDistance Suisse
Faculty of Law
- Assistant Professor
Criminal Law, Violences and Extremism
- Assistant Professor
Faculty Council of the Faculty of Law
- Assistant Professor
Academic Council
- Assistant Professor
- Professors' representative F
Publications
Les publications les plus récentes sont :
- Godel Thierry, Délèze Morgane (2024), Breve comentario sobre la revisión del derecho penal sexual en Suiza, que entró en vigor el 1 de julio de 2024, in : www.dppc.online, septiembre 2024 (27 páginas).
- Godel Thierry, Délèze Morgane (2024), Petit commentaire de la révision du droit pénal sexuel en Suisse, entrée en vigueur le 1er juillet 2024, in : www.dppc.online, septembre 2024 (27 pages).
- Godel Thierry, Rodríguez Sánchez Alicia (2024), Petit commentaire du droit pénal sexuel en Espagne en 2022 et de ses ajustements en 2023, in: www.dppc.online, septembre 2024 (37 pages)
- Godel Thierry, Rodríguez Sánchez Alicia (2024), Breve comentario sobre la revisión del derecho penal sexual en España en 2022 y sus ajustamientos en 2023, in: www.dppc.online, septiembre 2024 (27 páginas)
- Hurtado Pozo José, Godel Thierry (2023), Droit pénal général : Théorie, Tableaux synoptiques, Méthodologie de résolution de cas pénaux, Lexique pénal, Répertoire des termes allemands, 4e éd. complétée et mise à jour, Schulthess Editions romandes 2023 (831 pages)
- Godel Thierry (2023), L’interdiction pour les Suisses de servir dans des forces armées étrangères : Etude de la jurisprudence relative à l’article 94 du Code pénal militaire dans le contexte des guerres modernes et analyse critique des critères établis, Éditions Weblaw (Ebook, 156 pages)
Research projects
Research groups
Criminal Law, Violences and Extremism
Faculty of Law