Prof. Dr. Stephan Wolf

CV

DOB: 7 June 1961 in Bern, from Spiez BE, married with two children
1980 Matura at Gymnasium Thun
since 1980 Advocacy and Notary Studies at the University of Bern incl. internships (prefecture, judicial office, advocacy, land registry, notary)
1988 State examination for advocacy in the Canton of Bern (Award for the best state examination by the Supreme Court of the Canton of Bern)
1991 State examination for the notary in the Canton of Bern
1991-1996 Practicing notary and advocate
1996 Doctoral promotion (Dr. iur.) at the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bern
1997-2003 Senior assistant at the Institute of Romance Studies at the University of Bern
2001-2003 Lecturer for Bernese Notary Law at the University of Bern
2002 Habilitation at the Faculty of Law at the University of Bern with a Venia docendi for Private Law, Notary Law and notarial practice
2003 Full professor for Private Law and Notary Law at the University of Bern (succession Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Heinz Hausheer)
2008-2010 Vice dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Bern
2008-2014 University of Bern Senate member
2010-2014 Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Bern
2021 Visiting professor at the University of Vienna, Faculty of Law, Department for European, International and Comparative Law
2022 Visiting professor at the University of Padua, Department of Private Law and Critique of Law

since 2018 member of the Advisory Board for the DECIDE project (Diagnostic Evaluation of Capacity for Important Decisional Events) (Manager Prof. Dr. phil. Andreas U. Monsch, Memory Clinic, Felix-Platter Hospital Basel)
since 2013 member of the Development and Practice Advisory Board at the Faculty of Law at the University of Innsbruck
since 2007 member of the Standing Committee of the KPM Center for Public Management at the University of Bern
since 2004 president of the Board of Trustees of the Curt Rommel Foundation
since 2001 member of the executive board of the Bernese Notary Association
Scientific advisor of the Swiss Notary Foundation

Co-editor “Schweizerisches Privatrecht”
Co-editor “ZGB- und OR-Kommentar Orell Füssli”
Co-editor “Basler Kommentar ZGB II” (starting with 6th edition)
Editor of the publication series by the Institute of Notary Law and Practice at the University of Bern

Member of the editorial board of the journal “Der Bernische Notar”
Member of the editorial board of the journal “Not@lex, Revue de droit privé et fiscal du patrimoine”
Member of the editorial staff of the Bernese Lawyers Association’s journal
Member of the Comitato di valutazione (Estero) of the journal “Diritto delle successioni e della famiglia”

2018-2019 Case author and jury member at the Swiss Moot Court
2016-2017 Member of the overall project management “preparation of the revision of the notary law of the Canton of Bern”
2008-2013 Member of the coherence group Code of Obligations 2020 for Civil Code
2006 Presentation, in German, at the Swiss Lawyers’ Day in Private Law about the acquisition of inheritance by several heirs and Inheritance Distribution Law – Community of Heirs – Distribution of Estate
2005-2007 Member of the Steering Committee of the National Research Program NRP 52 (“Changing Childhood, Youth and Intergenerational Relations”) of the Swiss National Science Foundation
2002-2006 Member of the working group for the complete revision of the revised notarial legislation of the Canton of Bern from 1 July 2006
2001 Member of the Consultation Commission of the Swiss Notary Association
1990-2009 President of the Dante Alighieri Society, Thun Committee

1988 Award for the best state examination for advocacy by the Supreme Court of the Canton of Bern
2009 Diploma of Merit, Gold Medal by the Dante Alighieri Society
2016 Honorary Member, Italian Society of Civil Law Scholars