Tobias Schaffner

Pembroke College

The Relationship between Law and Eudaemonist Ethics in the Work of Hugo Grotius (working title)

Start Date: 2008/10.

End Date: 2012/09.

Education

 

10/08 –              PhD Candidate. Supervisors: Dr Nigel Simmonds and Dr Amanda Perreau-Saussine.

10/04 – 07/05     Master of Laws (LLM) (Hons), University of Cambridge.

10/02 – 07/04     Licence en droit, University of Geneva.

04/01 – 10/02     Demi-licence en droit and Certificat de droit transnational (CDT), University of Geneva.

10/98 – 03/01     Lizentiat I (foundational legal studies), Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät, University of Zurich.

 

Teaching experience

 

10/10 –              Lecturer (substitute) and Assistant lecturer in History and Philosophy of International Law (LLM), University of Cambridge.

10/10 –              Assistant lecturer in Jurisprudence (LLM), University of Cambridge.

06/10 – 08/10     Supervisor in Jurisprudence, Pembroke-King’s Programme (PKP), Summer School, Cambridge (UK).

01/10 – 06/10     Supervisor in Jurisprudence, King’s College - Harvard Study Abroad Academic Programme, Cambridge (UK).

01/10 – 03/10     Supervisor in International Law at Queens’ College, University of Cambridge.

01/10 – 03/10     Supervisor in Jurisprudence at Christ’s College, Emmanuel College, Newnham College, Queens’ College, University of Cambridge.

 

Work experience

 

09/07 – 05/08     Assistant to Judges R. Ranjeva and M. Bennouna, International Court of Justice (ICJ), The Hague.

10/05 – 06/07     Traineeship, Haymann & Baldi Attorneys, Zurich.

05/04 – 10/04     Intern, Legal Department, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva.

 

Languages

 

German: mother tongue

English: fluent

French: fluent

Italian: academic reading

Spanish: academic reading

Latin: classical and early modern

 

 

Scholarships and bursaries 2008 – 2011

 

Whewell Graduate Studentship in International Law (Fees)

Yorke Scholarship

Humanitarian Trust Studentship in International Law (2008/09)

Pembroke College Scholarship Fund

Cambridge Overseas Trust (Overseas Student Bursary)

 

History and Philosophy of International Law, especially Late Scholastic Moral and Legal Philosophy, both Protestant (e.g. Hugo Grotius) and Catholic (e.g. Francisco Vitoria, Domingo de Soto, Francisco Suarez and Leonard Lessius); History of European Private Law; Thomist Natural Law (esp. Odon Lottin, Giuseppe Graneris, Francesco Olgiati, Reginaldo Pizzorni, and Heinrich Rommen); Virtue Ethics; and Moral Theology.  If you are interested in one or the other of these topics and/or scholars, please email me: I am always happy to discuss them!

'Universelle Gleichheit in Hugo Grotius' Lehre vom natürlichen Privatrecht,' 18th Meeting of the Young Forum for the Philosophy of Law, Lucerne, Switzerland (Forthcoming, August 2011).

Dr Nigel Simmonds and Dr Amanda Perreau-Saussine (currently on leave)