
Email: rnf22@cam.ac.uk
Dr Raffael Fasel
Raffael joined Jesus College in 2021 as a Teaching Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Law. He holds a £440,000 grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation for his research in constitutional theory.
Academic interests
Raffael’s academic interests include:
- Constitutional theory and comparative constitutional law
- Human and animal rights law
- Jurisprudence
- Intellectual history.
Degrees obtained
- Bachelor of Law, University of Fribourg.
- Master of Law, University of Fribourg.
- MA in Philosophy, UCL.
- LLM, Yale Law School.
- PhD, University of Cambridge.
Awards and prizes
- Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Grant (2021).
- Yorke Prize of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law for a thesis of ‘exceptional quality’ (2020).
- Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Mobility Scholarship (2019).
- Swiss National Science Foundation Doctoral Mobility Scholarship (2016).
- Fulbright Scholarship (2013).
- Janggen-Pöhn Foundation Academic Career Scholarship (2013).
Biography
Raffael researches and teaches in constitutional law, legal theory, and animal rights law. In 2021, he was awarded a £440,000 research grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation for his research on constituent power theory, for which he is also affiliated with the University of Zurich.
Before joining Jesus College, Raffael was a research fellow at LSE Law School. He completed his PhD in Law on the theory of human and animal rights at the University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex College), with stints as a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School and the University of Oxford. He obtained an LLM from Yale Law School on a Fulbright scholarship, an MA in Philosophy from University College London, and holds a Bachelor of Law and a Master of Law degree from the University of Fribourg.
During his doctoral studies, Raffael co-founded the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law and currently serves as its Executive Director. He also co-created Europe’s first Animal Rights Law course at the Cambridge Law Faculty, which he co-lectures. Raffael is also an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.
Department link
http://www.law.cam.ac.ukPublications, links and resources
- Fasel, R.N. and Butler, S.C. (forthcoming) Animal Rights Law (Hart Publishing).
- Fasel, R.N. (forthcoming) ‘Constraining Constituent Conventions: Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès and the Limits of Pouvoir Constituant’, International Journal of Constitutional Law.
- Fasel, R.N. (2022) ‘Less Incorrect Ways of Doing Jurisprudence’ The American Journal of Jurisprudence, 1-35.
- Blattner, C.E. and Fasel, R.N. (2021) ‘The Swiss Primate Case: How Courts Have Paved the Way for the First Direct Democratic Vote on Animal Rights’ Transnational Environmental Law, 1-14.
- Fasel, R.N. (2021) ‘Shaving Ockham’ 44 Revus, 1-12.
- Blattner, C.E. and Fasel, R.N. (2021) ‘Primaten als Grundrechtsträger: Überlegungen zum ersten bundesgerichtlichen Tierrechtsurteil’ Recht, 61-73.
- Fasel, R.N. (2020) ‘The Constrained Convention: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès and the Making of Chile’s New Constitution’ (2020) LSE Law, Society and Economy Working Papers 8/2020, 1-28.
- Blattner, C.E. and Fasel, R.N. (2020) ‘Grundrechte jenseits der “anthropologischen Schranke”? Die Primateninitiative und das wegweisende Urteil des Verfassungsgerichts Basel-Stadt’ Sui generis, 413-423.
- Fasel, R.N. (2020) ‘Quelle place pour le royaume animal au Royaume-Uni ? Les animaux comme sujets du droit britannique’ 43 Société de législation comparée, 119-130.
- Fasel, R.N. and Butler, S.C. (2020) ‘The Dawn of European Animal Rights Law’ 8 Global Journal of Animal Law, 1-7.
- Fasel, R.N. (2019) ‘The Old "New" Dignitarianism’ 25 Res Publica 4, 1–22.
- Fasel, R.N. (2018) ‘One Another's Equals: The Basis of Human Equality by Jeremy Waldron’, (Book Review) 77 Cambridge Law Journal 1, 230-233.
- Campagna, C. and Fasel, R.N. (2018) ‘“Listen to Them and Give Them a King”: Self-Determination, Democracy, and the Proportionality Principle’ 32 Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 2, 257-280.
- Fasel, R.N. (2018) ‘“Simply in Virtue of Being Human”? A Critical Appraisal of a Human Rights Commonplace’ 9 Jurisprudence 3, 1-25.
- Fasel, R.N. and Kurki, V.A.J. (eds) (2017), ‘Talking Animals, Law and Philosophy’ 5 Global Journal of Animal Law 1 (Special Issue).
- Moeckli, D., and Fasel, R.N. (2017) ‘A Duty to Give Reasons in the Security Council: Making Voting Transparent’, 14 International Organizations Law Review 1, 13-86.
- Fasel, R.N. (2017) ‘Talking Animals, Law, Philosophy – and Beyond’ 5 Global Journal of Animal Law 1, 3-11.
- Campagna, C. and Fasel, R.N. (2016) ‘Ein Trumpf gegen Trumps: Die Exekutiven der Schweiz und der USA im Vergleich’, Jusletter, 1-21.
- Fasel, R.N. (2015) ‘Des freien Bildhauers Würde? Plädoyer für eine Abkehr von Autonomie-basierten Menschenwürdeansätzen’, in Roberto Andorno/Markus Thier (eds), Menschenwürde und Selbstbestimmung (DIKE) 27-53.
- Fasel, R.N. (2015) ‘Comparative Matters: The Renaissance of Comparative Constitutional Law by Ran Hirschl’ (Book Review) 40 Yale Journal of International Law 2, 435-438.