Walter Kälin [SEP] educated at
the University of Bern and his LL.M. from Harvard Law School.
Kälin has been a professor of international and constitutional law at the University of Bern since 1985. He is also a former Dean of the Faculty and Head of the Legal Department.
He has acted as a consultant for numerous agencies and organizations including the Swiss development agency, SDC, UNHCR, UNHCHR, UNDP, and others on matters of decentralization, human rights, and refugee law.
In 1991-1992, Kälin served as the Special Rapporteur of
Walter Kälin
Walter Kälin (born 1951 in Zurich) is a preeminent Swiss humanitarian, constitutional lawyer, international human rights lawyer, activist, and advocate. He is also known as a legal scholar and a renowned professor. He has been a leader in changing Swiss laws and international laws for humanitarian purposes and he has been published extensively on issues of human rights law, the law of internally displaced persons, refugee law, and Swiss constitutional law.
Education and career.
Walter Kälin received his Doctor of Law from