Education Law

Education law covers all areas and institutions of education and thus regulates an important human right. In Switzerland, the education system is mainly the responsibility of the cantons and municipalities. Through the adoption of the Education Constitution, the Confederation and the cantons were obliged to ensure, jointly and within the scope of their competence, high quality, and permeability of the Swiss education area.

Schools, universities, and other educational institutions play an important role in everyone's life. In this context, many areas of administrative and constitutional law overlap in these educational institutions. Particularly noteworthy at this point are procedural regulations, personnel law, private law, and school law. Custody rights of separated parents and the resulting problems in communication between schools and parents come into play. Aspects of child protection and data protection also play a role in matters of education and school law.

School law mainly regulates the rights and duties of school authorities, school supervision, parents, pupils and teachers. As a branch of special administrative law, it is part of public law.

Legal problems in the field of education law can be related, for example, to a lack of available kindergarten places, unfair grading or excessively long working hours in training companies. For clients, these represent a significant impairment, because they partly decide on their own future or the future of their own children. A lawyer for education law can help you to enforce your claims - among other things, also by filing a lawsuit for a place at university or challenging an examination result.

Our law firm shares the opinion that education is one of the most important focal points of society. Our experienced lawyers are happy to assist you in answering complex questions regarding education law and always represent your rights confidently and reliably, for example in school disciplinary proceedings, in objections and appeals against official decisions, in connection with employment relationships and in questions regarding the safety of educational institutions. In particular, we represent pupils, or their legal guardians, teachers, schools, institutions and municipalities.