Prof. Judith Wyttenbach

Judith Wyttenbach

Member of the Council of Europe Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in respect of Switzerland and Gender Equality Rapporteur

Judith Wyttenbach is professor of constitutional and public international law at the University of Bern (Switzerland). She is specialized in institutional and structural dimensions of discrimination, minority rights and the implementation of human rights treaties at the national and local level. She received her doctorate with a dissertation on the state's duty to protect children and young people under fundamental rights and completed her habilitation with a thesis on the implementation of human rights conventions in federal states. She completed research stays at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and at the Institute of Peace and Development Law at the University of Nice. From 2016 to 2022 she has been member of the board of directors of the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Human Rights, and from 2008 to 2019 she was a member of the Federal Commission for Women’s Issues. Since 2024, she has been a Swiss expert on the Advisory Committee for the Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. Judith Wyttenbach is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at the University of Bern (IZFG), a board member of the Swiss Academy of Judges (CAS Judiciary), the Bar Examination Commission of the Canton of Bern, and the Swiss Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ).