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Dr. Michael Widmer

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Dr. Michael Widmer

ZHAW School of Management and Law
Institute of Enterprise Law
Gertrudstrasse 15
8401 Winterthur

+41 58 934 79 62
michael.widmer@zhaw.ch

Work at ZHAW

Position

Dozent für Datenschutzrecht Institut für Unternehmensrecht| Zurich Center for Information Technology and Privacy

Focus

IT law, in particular data protection law, as well as intellectual property law

Teaching

Lecturer Data Protection Law

Professional development teaching

Experience

  • Counsel
    Probst Partner AG, Winterthur and Zürich
    01 / 2018 - today
  • Partner
    Swissberg Trademark Attorneys / Attorneys at Law
    04 / 2012 - 12 / 2017
  • Attorney at Law
    Baker & McKenzie Zurich
    05 / 2007 - 03 / 2012
  • Foreign Associate
    Mayer Brown LLP, Washington D.C.
    05 / 2006 - 04 / 2007
  • Associate
    Probst Rechtsanwälte, Winterthur
    08 / 2000 - 05 / 2004

Projects

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Books, peer-reviewed

Widmer, M. (ed.) (2023) Datenschutz : Rechtliche Schnittstellen. Zürich: Dike. doi: 10.3256/978-3-03929-027-7.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

  • Widmer, M. and Egli, P. (2025) 'Datenschutz im Gesundheitsrecht', in Rumetsch, V. and Poledna, T. (eds) Gesundheitsrecht. Basel: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, pp. 551–668.
  • Widmer, M. (2024) 'Kommentierung von Art. 7 DSG & Art. 56 DSG', in Blechta, G. P. and Vasella, D. (eds) Datenschutzgesetz/Öffentlichkeitsgesetz. Basel: Helbing & Lichtenhahn.
  • Widmer, M. (2023) 'Kommentierung von Art. 22 bis 23 DSG', in Bieri, A. and Powell, J. (eds) DSG : Kommentar zum Schweizerischen Datenschutzgesetz mit weiteren Erlassen. Zürich: Orell Füssli, pp. 286–310.
  • Widmer, M. (2020) 'Datenschutzrechtliches Auskunftsbegehren', in Egli, P., Mosimann, H.-J., and Steiger-Sackmann, S. (eds) Kommentierte Mustereingaben im Verwaltungsrecht : Informationszugang, Migration. Zürich: Schulthess, pp. 21–35.
  • Widmer, M. and Hegyi, S. (2019) 'Legal aspects of applied data science', in Braschler, M., Stadelmann, T., and Stockinger, K. (eds) Applied data science : lessons learned for the data-driven business. Cham: Springer, pp. 63–78. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-11821-1_5.
  • Widmer, M. (2015) 'Rechte der Datenschutzsubjekte', in Passadelis, N., Rosenthal, D., and Thür, H. (eds) Datenschutzrecht : Beraten in Privatwirtschaft und öffentlicher Verwaltung. Basel: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, pp. 149–166.

Other publications

Research data

Ebert, Nico; Widmer, Michael, 2021. SARS-CoV-2 contact-tracing app survey Switzerland. OSF.

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