Dr. Martin Kayser

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Senior Research Fellow (from 2024)
• Lecturer for Constitutional Law (2023)

Focus

• Access to Justice
• Law and Politics
• Energy Law

Teaching

• Administrative Law (ZHAW)
• Constitutional Law (ZHAW)

Experience

• Constitutional and International Law
  University of St Gallen
  02 / 2015 - 12 / 2024
• Judge
  Swiss Federal Administrative Court
  01 / 2016 - 12 / 2023
• Lawyer
  publiclaw.ch
  03 / 2007 - 06 / 2022
• Judge
  Administrative Court of the Canton of Zurich
  04 / 2012 - 12 / 2015
• Counsel
  Poledna Boss Kurer Attorney at Law
  03 / 2009 - 03 / 2012
• Adjoined Judge
  Zurich Administrative Court
  06 / 2010 - 02 / 2012
• Lecturer for Constitutional Law
  University of Zurich
  03 / 2003 - 12 / 2010
• Post-doc
  Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
  08 / 2006 - 12 / 2007
• Legal Officer
  Zurich Administrative Court
  05 / 2002 - 07 / 2005
• Lecturer for Constitutional Law
  University of Lucerne
  02 / 2003 - 06 / 2004
• Legal Trainee
  Zurich District Court / Badertscher Dörig Poledna Rechtsanwälte
  07 / 1999 - 09 / 2000
• Research Assistant
  Zurich University, Prof Tobias Jaag
  02 / 1998 - 01 / 1999
• Lawyer
  SUISA
  06 / 1996 - 01 / 1998

Education and Continuing education

Education

• LLM / Public Law
  University College London
  09 / 2005 - 08 / 2006
• Bar Exam / Law
  Zurich Appellate Court
  09 / 2000 - 12 / 2001
• PhD / Constitutional Law
  University of Zurich
  09 / 1996 - 11 / 1999
• MLaw / Law
  University of Zurich
  09 / 1990 - 05 / 1996

Continuing Education

• Coaching Certificate for Groups
  INSEAD
  07 / 2023
• Advanced Coaching with Groups Certificate
  INSEAD
  06 / 2022
• Programme for Law Teachers (Certificate)
  University College London
  07 / 2006

Network

Membership of networks

• Lions Club
• UCL Alumni
• Zurich Lawyers Association
• INSEAD Coaching Certificate Alumni
• Practice Group Administrative Law (Zurich Lawyers Association)
• Swiss Judges Association
• Swiss Association for Administrative and Organizational Law

Social media

LinkedIn

Publications

• Kayser, Martin,

  2024.

  Coaches auf der Coach.

  Anwaltsrevue.

  2024(3), pp. 109-113.

• Poledna, Tomas; Kayser, Martin,

  2021.

  Kommunikation zwischen Richtern und Anwälten : ein Dialog unter Freunden

  .

  In:

  Müller, Karin; Schwarz, Jörg, eds.,

  Auf zu neuen Ufern! : Festschrift für Walter Fellmann.

  Bern:

  Stämpfli.

  pp. 507-524.

• Kayser, Martin; Papadopoulos, Lysandre; Altmann, Rahel,

  2019.

  Kommentierung des Art. 45 VwVG

  .

  In:

  Auer, Christoph; Müller, Markus, eds.,

  VwVG : Kommentar zum Bundesgesetz über das Verwaltungsverfahren.

  Zürich:

  Dike.

  pp. 680-692.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Advocacy in the Swiss Federal Administrative Court (with Andre Moser, Michael Beusch und Lorenz Kneubuehler, third edition, 2022)
• The Right of Access to Courts in Comparative Administrative Law (in: Ius Publicum Europeaum, vol. IX, 2021)
• Constitutional Law (with Michèle Guth, 4th edition, 2021)
• Exercises in Constitutional Law (with Michèle Guth, second edition, 2020)
• Interim orders (commentary with mit Rahel Altmann und Lysandre Papadopoulos, second edition, 2018)
• Legal Aid (Commentary, with Rahel Altmann, second edition, 2018)
• Judicial Review and Control (in: Ius Publicum Europaeum, vol. V, 2014)
• Judicial Review and Politics - the long goodbye to the Acts of State (2012)
• A Right for Judges to be Reelected (2007)
• Amending the Swiss Constitution and International Law (PhD-Thesis, 2001)
• The Public Pronouncement of Judgements (2001)
• The New Swiss Constitution (with Dagmar Richter, in Heidelberg Journal of International Law 1999, open access)

Other publications

• How to appoint Judges in a Sound Way (open access)
• The Elephant in the Court Room (editorial)
• What Leaders can learn from the Pandemic (open access)
• Counteracting Challenges to Judicial Authority (open access, with Rahel Altmann)
• When Lawyers and Judges finally talk to each other (with Tomas Poledna)
• How to measure chances of success when granting legal aid in migration law
• Administrative acts that do not count as such

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