Dr. iur. Silvan Schenkel
Senior Academic Assistant
T +41 41 229 53 36
silvan.schenkel@unilu.ch
Frohburgstrasse 3, Room 4.A59
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Silvan Schenkel studied law at the University of Lucerne (Bachelor in 2013 and Master in 2015). Following an internship in the judiciary, he worked as a Research Assistant for the Chair of Legal History and Legal Theory in Lucerne, initially with Prof. Thomas Henne and then with Prof. Michele Luminati. From 2018 to 2022, he practiced as a jurist for the Children and Adult Protection Authorities of St. Gallen and Zurich. Silvan Schenkel completed his PhD in 2021 at the University of Lucerne with a thesis on the “Deutscher Juristentag 1933” (German Conference of Lawyers 1933), for which he was awarded the annual prize of the University Association of the University of Lucerne for the best dissertation oft he faculty of law of the year 2021. From October 2022 to February 2025 he was the Manager of the Obwaldner Institut für Justizforschung at the University of Lucerne. Since 2023, he is a Senior Research Assistant and Teaching Fellow in Lucerne.
Publications
- Schenkel, S. (2019). Kompetenzkonflikte zwischen Jurisprudenz und Psychiatrie am Beispiel der Schuldfähigkeit im deutschen Strafrecht (1871-1939). In Haux, Dario, Picecchi, Dario & Schreiber, Markus (Eds.), Recht und Risiko (Vol. 134, pp. 81–104). Zürich, Basel, Genf: Schulthess Juristische Medien AG.
- Puricel, C., & Schenkel, S. (2018). Methodendiskussionen im deutschen und schweizerischen Verfassungsrecht aus historischer Sicht: Von 1848 bis zur Münsteraner Staatsrechtslehrertagung 1926. In Vasella, Juana & Morand, Anne-Sophie (Eds.), Werte im Recht - Das Recht als Wert: Junge Rechtswissenschaft Luzern. Zürich: Schulthess.
