Marcel Stüssi is working as a lecturer in human rights law at the Chair on Public Law of the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. He is also working as a human rights advisor for the Swiss Federal Office of Police (fedpol). He studied Spanish and Russian philology with the University of Mexico City and Saint Petersburg after finishing his English Baccalaureate at Hull’s School Zurich. In 2001 he changed from the language department to the faculty of law and graduated with honours (LL.B) from the English College of Law in 2004. In summer 2006 he received the Swiss Master of Laws (MLaw) from the University of Lucerne. Prior to working as a researcher at the Chair on Public Law he conducted legal research in Damascus and Aleppo, Syria. Marcel wrote a doctoral thesis in comparative constitutional law (Models of Religious Freedom; Switzerland, the United States, and Syria by analytical, methodological, and eclectic representation) graduating with (Dr.iur.). He worked in 2009 as a visiting researcher at Berkeley Boalt Hall, affiliated to the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law Jesse H. Choper. He was admitted as a member of the International Association of Constitutional Law in June 2007 and publishes primarily articles on the limits to universal human rights law.
Universal Human Rights Law
MODELS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: SWITZERLAND, THE UNITED STATES, AND SYRIA BY ANALYTICAL, METHODOLOGICAL, AND ECLECTIC REPRESENTATION (2011)
MODELS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
The Swiss, US American, and Syrian models are in this thesis...
Can the Extent of Religious Freedom be Measured?, libref (2011)
The purpose of this paper is to develop a method to assess the extent of...
How can we ensure justice to future generations?, Journal of Public Law and Law of the Sustainable Economy (2009)
This contribution departs from the premise that in order to do justice to future generations...
Banning of Minarets: Addressing the Validity of a Controversial Swiss Popular Initiative, Religion and Human Rights, Brill (2008)
The proposal to ban minarets is controversial by its very nature. On the one hand...
Muss das Parlament die Minarettverbotsinitiative für ungültig erklären?, Lucerne Journal of Ecclesiastical and Religious Law (2008)
Am 1. Mai 2007 lancierte das Egerkinger Initiativkomitee bestehend aus Politikern der Schweizeri-schen Volkspartei (SVP)...
Interview Series with Syrian Leaders (previously unpublished)
Interview with Heitam Maleh, unpublished previously (2007)
This is a previously unpublished interview on democracy and religious liberty in Syria.
Interview with Gregorios III, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem (2006)
This is a previously unpublished Interview with Gregorios III, Patriarch of Antioch and all the...
Interview with Mahmoud Akkam, Syria (2006)
This is a previously unpublished interview with Mahmoud Akkam, Mufti of Aleppo, Syria
Constitutional Law
Eine reine Demokratie ist in Syrien schwer vorstellbar, NZZ (2011)
Eine reine Demokratie ist in Syrien schwer vorstellbar Es wird sich in Syrien kaum ein...
Kirchturm und Glockengeläut in islamischen Ländern, Schweizerische Kirchenzeitung (2009)
Damaskus wird zu Recht «Wiege der Zivilisationen» genannt. Als älteste durchgehend bewohnte Stadt der Welt...
Verfassungsrechtliche Bedeutung des Minarettverbots, Schweizerische Kirchenzeitung (2009)
Eine Volksinitiative ist gut und gerecht, wenn sie von den Stimmberechtigten als sachlich und politisch...
Schweizer Minarettverbot: Ein Einzelfall?, Schweizerische Kirchenzeitung (2009)
Nimmt das Schweizer Stimmvolk die Minarettverbots-Initiative am 29. November diesen Jahres an, wird die Eidgenossenschaft...
Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Religionsgemeinschaften, Schweizerische Kirchenzeitung (2009)
Bislang war es nicht Aufgabe des Staates zu entscheiden, ob ein Kirchturm zwingend zu einer...