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Christoph Beat Graber
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Christoph Beat Graber (*1960) is a Swiss legal scholar and professor of legal sociology with particular focus on media law at the University of Zurich since 2015. He was previously a founding member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Lucerne and a consultant to various Swiss federal offices and the OECD on communication, cultural and copyright law issues.
His parents' work as hoteliers brought Christoph Beat Graber to St. Moritz in his childhood. After completing the Swiss Matura at the Lyceum Alpinum in the neighboring Zuoz, he studied law at the Universities of Bern and St. Gallen and was admitted to the bar in 1989.
Thanks to research grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Federal Department of Home Affairs, Graber subsequently completed his doctoral studies at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, where he was able to work closely with Gunther Teubner, among others, and thus further deepen his understanding of Niklas Luhmann's systems theory. He defended his doctoral thesis about the interferences of art and economy from a legal perspective in 1993 as a PhD, before it was published by the Nomos Publishing House in 1994.
Back at the University of Bern, Christoph Beat Graber habilitated in 2002 on the topic of trade and culture in the audiovisual law of the World Trade Organization. The habilitation thesis, published by Stämpfli, examines the field of tension between international law, economics and cultural policy from an interdisciplinary point of view - a method typically characterizing Graber's work.
After working as a senior research and teaching assistant and lecturer at the University of Bern, Graber became a full professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lucerne as a founding member. Between 2001 and 2014, he taught communication and cultural law, international law and legal sociology.
In 2010, he was awarded the Swiss-Academies Award for Transdisciplinary Research, the most highly endowed prize of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences.
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