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Portrait of Dr. Nadja Fischer

Dr. Nadja Fischer

nf@schmidt-gabain.ch

Nadja Fischer is a lawyer specialising in art law and entertainment law, with a particular flair for foundation law and inheritance law. She also practises media law. Nadja Fischer knows the art, entertainment and media world not only from a legal perspective, but also from the inside. She worked for many years as a radio journalist at Swiss Radio DRS 2 (now SRF 2 Kultur), including as a cultural correspondent in Italy and as an author of radio features.

Nadja Fischer particularly enjoys communicating with her clients and is able to convey complex contexts convincingly, which benefits her especially in litigation.

Nadja Fischer provides both advisory and litigation services and is authorised to represent parties before all Swiss courts.

Find out more about the areas of expertise of SCHMIDT-GABAIN: Areas of expertise

Work

  • Since 2024: Attorney at law at SCHMIDT-GABAIN AG
  • 2023 to 2024: Attorney at law at Kellerhals Carrard, Basel
  • 2023: Extraordinary court clerk at the Basel-Stadt Court of Appeal
  • 2021: Trainee at Kellerhals Carrard, Basel and at the Civil Court of Basel-Stadt
  • 2019-2020: Assistant at the Chair of Prof. Dr Roland Fankhauser, Civil Law and Civil Procedure Law, University of Basel
  • Until 2014: Worked for Swiss Radio SRF 2 Kultur (formerly DRS 2) as an editor, presenter, producer, and cultural correspondent (including six years in Rome)

University Teaching

  • Since ___: Lecturer of the module ‘Contract Law’ in the postgraduate programme ‘Cultural Reflective Management’, University of Basel

Education

  • 2024: Dr iur., University of Basel (doctoral thesis: “Freedom despite care? Self-determination in the context of official measures under Swiss adult protection law and former guardianship law“)
  • 2022: Admission to the bar (admitted to all Swiss courts)
  • 2021: MLaw, University of Basel
  • 2019: BLaw, University of Basel
  • From 2002: Journalistic training at SR DRS (now SRF)
  • 2002: lic. phil., University of Basel (French literature and linguistics, media and political science)

Languages

  • German (mother tongue)
  • French (fluent)
  • English (fluent)
  • Italian (fluent)
  • Latin

Publications

(in German)

  • The underage association member, in: Jung/Krauskopf/Cramer (eds.), Theorie und Praxis des Unternehmensrechts, Festschrift in honour of Lukas Handschin, Zurich/Basel/Geneva 2020, 175 ff. (together with Roland Fankhauser)
  • Selected case law of the Cantonal Court of Basel-Landschaft and the Court of Appeal of Basel-Stadt in 2018 in the area of the Civil Code and the Code of Civil Procedure, in: BJM 2019, 345 ff. (together with Roland Fankhauser)
  • The position of related parties in child and adult protection law, in: FamPra.ch 2019, 1069 ff. (together with Roland Fankhauser)
  • Family science in Switzerland, in: Wonneberger/Weidtmann/Stelzig-Willutzki (eds.), Family Science: Fundamentals and Overview, Wiesbaden 2018, 73 ff. (together with Roland Fankhauser)
  • Children's photos on Facebook or when parents violate the personal rights of their children, in: Fankhauser/Reusser/Schwander (eds.), Brennpunkt Familienrecht, Festschrift für Thomas Geiser zum 65. Geburtstag, Zurich 2017, 193 ff. (together with Roland Fankhauser)