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Christoph Beat Graber, Ph.D., Professor of Law, studied law at the Universities of Bern and St. Gallen, received his admission to the bar in Switzerland, a Ph.D. from the European University Institute (Florence) and his Habilitation from the University of Bern.
He is a founding member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Lucerne, since 2001, where he is Head of the research centre i-call (International Communications and Art Law Lucerne) and Director of lucernaiuris, the Institute for Research in the Fundaments of Law.
In 2000, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Georgetown University Law School and, in 2007, a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong, Faculty of Law.
He teaches in the fields of media law, intellectual property (IP) and art law, international trade law and legal sociology. His main research interests relate to legal challenges of globalisation and a digital networked environment at the intersection of IP, cultural diversity, cultural heritage, human rights and international trade regulation, including issues of indigenous peoples.
Christoph has been a long-time member of the Swiss Federal Arbitration Commission for the Exploitation of Author’s Rights and Neighbouring Rights (until 2011), a member of the research commission of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Lucerne and advisor to various branches of the Swiss Government in the fields of IP, trade and culture.
He is the author of numerous publications, including Handel und Kultur im Audiovisionsrecht der WTO (Staempfli, 2003), and editor of Free Trade versus Cultural Diversity: WTO Negotiations in the Field of Audiovisual Services (Schulthess, 2004), Digital Rights Management: The End of Collecting Societies? (Staempfli, 2005), Interdisziplinäre Wege in der juristischen Grundlagenforschung (Schulthess, 2007), Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment (Edward Elgar, 2008) and Governance of Digital Game Environments and Cultural Diversity (Edward Elgar, 2010). He is editor of medialex, the Swiss journal of media law, a member of the editorial board of the University of Western Australia Law Review and a member of the board of directors of the Solothurn Film Festival.
In 2010, Christoph Graber received the Swiss-Academies Award for Transdisciplinary Research (the highest research prize of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences).