of the Constitutional Court of Liechtenstein from 1989 to 2000. From 1993 to 1998, Professor Thürer was a member of the expert commission on the revision of the Swiss Federal Constitution. From 2000 to 2001, he was also a member of the so-called Bergier Commission, which re-considered Swiss policies during the Second World War. Scholarship Daniel Thürer is noted for an original humanist approach to international law that eschews simplistic realism as well as the positivism still prevalent in international legal scholarship. His multi-layered approach is best illustrated by the 2008 lecture on International Humanitarian Law at the Hague Academy, where this highly technical body of law is, through an inter-disciplinary methodology incorporating religion, history and moral philosophy, re-interpreted to honour its original purpose of reducing human suffering and protecting civilians. While he maintains a strong idealist belief in the transformative power of international law, his scholarship also advocates a bottom-up approach relying on successful local or regional institutions and traditions. More recently, he has focussed on applying the traditional concept of the res publica to modern constitutional law. Works (selection) Das Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Völker – Mit einem Exkurs zur Jurafrage (PhD Thesis, 1974) Perspektive Schweiz. Schulthess, Zürich 1998 Bund und Gemeinden – Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung (Beiträge des Max-Planck-Instituts zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, Band 90), Berlin 1986 Verfassungsrecht der Schweiz – Droit constitutionnel suisse. Schulthess, Zürich 2001 (herausgegeben mit Jean-François Aubert und Jörg Paul Müller) Kosmopolitisches Staatsrecht. Schulthess, Zürich 2005 (Grundidee Gerechtigkeit, Band 1) Völkerrecht als Fortschritt und Chance. Dike/Nomos, Zürich/Baden-Baden 2009 (Grundidee Gerechtigkeit, Band 2) Thomas Buergenthal and Daniel Thürer: Menschenrechte. Ideale, Instrumente, Institutionen. Dike, Zürich / St. Gallen, und Nomos, Baden-Baden 2010. 453 p. International Humanitarian Law: Theory and Practice (The Pocket Books of the Hague Academy of International Law), Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden, forthcoming 2010, . References External links Institute for Public International and Foreign Constitutional Law, University of Zurich: http://www.ivr.uzh.ch/institutsmitglieder/thuerer.html ICRC: http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/icrc-members-biography-250108 ECRI: http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/about/Members/THUERER_CV.asp#TopOfPage Institut de Droit International: https://web.archive.org/web/20130704193742/http://www.idi-iil.org/idiE/navig_members.html#titulaires Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerrecht: http://www.dgvr.de/organe.htm Fernand Braudel Fellowship at the EUI: http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/Law/People/Fellows/FernandBraudelFellows.aspx Swiss jurists Members of the Institut de Droit International Red Cross personnel University of Zurich alumni Academic staff of the University of Zurich Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law people 1945 births Living people Alumni of the University of Cambridge Fernand Braudel Fellows People from St. Gallen (city)