Walter Kälin focuses on international human rights law with an emphasis on internally displaced persons and refugees.
Experience
Current Positions
- Professor of Constitutional and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Bern (Switzerland)
Past Positions
- Representative of the UN Secretary General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (2004 – 2010)
- Member of the UN Human Rights Committee (2003 – 2008)
- Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Commission on the Situation of Human Rights in Iraqi-occupied Kuwait (1991-92)
Education
- Lic. iur. University of Bern, 1976
- Dr. iur. University of Bern, 1982
- LL.M. Harvard Law School 1984
Language Fluency