Célian Hirsch
- Fellow, Rock Center for Corporate Governance
Biography
Célian Hirsch is a Rock Center Fellow at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford Law School. He has formal training in Swiss law, was admitted to the Geneva Bar in 2018, and has practiced arbitration and data protection law since 2019. He is also an affiliated scholar at the Centre for Banking and Financial Law at the University of Geneva, where he earned his PhD summa cum laude.
Before joining Stanford, he was a visiting researcher at Georgetown University Law Center. He is currently completing a Postdoc.Mobility fellowship funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, with research visits at Georgetown, Stanford, and the House of Finance in Frankfurt.
Célian previously taught at the Universities of Geneva and Fribourg (Switzerland), where he covered contract law, civil liability, banking law, and data protection. He serves on the Continuing Legal Education Committee of the Geneva Bar Association, organizing public lectures and webinars.
His work has been widely published in Swiss academic journals and was cited by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court. He writes on corporate law, banking law, contract law, data protection, and civil liability. He is also a co-founder of several leading legal platforms, including LawInside.ch, SwissPrivacy.law, and Swiss Contract Law.
You may find a full list of his publications here.
Education
- PhD, University of Geneva, 2023
- LL.M., University of Zurich, 2015
- LL.B., University of Fribourg, 2013