Monbijoustrasse 61, CH-3007 Bern
Tel: +41 (0)31 329 55 55, Fax: +41 (0)31 329 55
Dr. Laura Knöpfel
Attorney-at-law, MSc (LSE)
Senior Associate
Languages
German, English, Spanish, French
Career
since 2026 BGPartner AG
2024–2026 Swiss Human Rights Institution
since 2024 Lecturer in Environmental Law, University of Bern
2023–2024 Senior Teaching and Research Assistant, Civil Procedure Law and Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law, University of Lucerne
2023 basleradvokat:innen (traineeship)
2022 Lalive (traineeship)
Education
2024 Swiss bar admission (Anwaltspatent)
2021 PhD in Law, King's College London
2016 MSc in Law, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Preferred Areas of Practice
– Civil procedure law and international civil procedure law
– Corporate law, including group company law
– Law of personality rights
– Debt enforcement and bankruptcy law
– Environmental and climate law
Publikationen
- 2026, Corporate climate change litigation as a new business risk, in: Megan Bowman and Laura Mai (eds.), A Research Agenda for Finance and the Environment: Reimagining Law and Regulation, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- 2025, Insolvenzrecht im Kontext des Klimawandels und Umweltschäden, in: Klaus Mathis et al. (eds.), Schutz von Mensch und Umwelt im europäischen Kontext: Festschrift für Sebastian Heselhaus zum 65. Geburtstag, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
- 2023, Die Vollstreckung von ausländischen Entscheiden in der Schweiz: Ein unentschiedenes Seilziehen zwischen Effizienz und Formalismus, Blätter für Schuldbetreibungs- und Konkursrecht 2023(1).
- 2020, Transnational Law and the Ethnography of Corporate Social Responsibility, in: Peer Zumbansen (ed.), The Oxford Handbook on Transnational Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 2020, Legal Responsibility in an Entangled World, Legal Anthropology 4(2): 1–16