Prof. Andrea Wehrli

• Module responsibility: Law

• Teaching – From practice for practice: research-based and practical
  
  Motto: Learning together is better still than teaching.

• Bachelor of Business Administration (BScBA)
  +
  BFH diagonal (university-wide, interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary elective courses offered by BFH)

• BUSINESS DEPARTMENT:
  • Business Law (BWIR) – Part: Commercial and Corporate Law
  • Challenges of HRM in Practice (EHPR) – Part: Social Security
  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Data-Sensitive HRM (SHR1) – Part: Legal Foundations
  (Labour Law & Anti-Discrimination Legislation and Language as a Category of Inequality)
  • German for Beginners (EG4B)

• BFH:
  • «Language Skills for the Workplace»
  • «Guaraná com Chocolate’ – a Brazilian-Swiss COIL»

• Former modules (DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS):
  • Legal Studies 1-3 (REC1-3); International Law 1-4: Fundamental Rights, Contract Law, Commercial and Corporate Law
  • Human Resource Management 1-3: Labour Law section; (HRM1-3)
  • Challenges in Human Resources (MHR1): Focus on Diversity & Inclusion; Equality; Anti-Discrimination
  • German for Beginners (GEBE)

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
  I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my colleagues and, in particular, to my students — both current and former — for their valuable contributions to my teaching, in the form of constructive feedback, suggestions and commitment. I would also like to thank the academics and industry professionals, both internal and external, whose memorable guest lectures and collaborative projects have enhanced my teaching.
  
  From science:
  Dr. Claudine Brohy, Prof. Dr. iur. Regula Kägi-Diener; Prof. Dr. Dr. Harro von Senger; Prof. Dr. Silvia Zorzetto; Prof. Jürg Neuenchwander, Prof. Dr. Kyria Finardi, Prof. Dr. Juliana Salvadori, Prof. Dr. Mirjam Hauck.
  
  From practice:
  Thomas Baumgartner, Bern Cantonal Police; Isabelle Berthold, Bern Cantonal Economic Development Agency; Richard Wang, Bern Cantonal Economic Development Agency; Barbara Ruf, Head, Cantonal Office for Gender Equality; Pesche Eigenmann, Head of International Relations Office, BFH; Natalie Raeber, Research Assistant, HAFL; Elizabeth Steele, Head, Office for Bilingualism & Multilingualism & Member of the Board of Trustees of the Forum for Bilingualism, BFH; Prof. Dr. iur. Pascal Coullery, BFH; Former Member of the Cantonal Government Dr. med. Philippe Perrenoud, Madiana Vanndevoir, Secretary General of the CJB; Peter Gasser, President of the INS Commission; Aurélie Landry, Secretary General of the CAF, Christine Schneider, Member of the CoForS and the CAF Ad Hoc Commission; Nicoletta Mariolini, Federal Delegate for Multilingualism; Anke Jucker, Research Assistant to the Federal Delegate for Multilingualism; Alois Ochsner, Ambassador, FDFA; Florian Ziler, Project Manager for the Revision of Company Law, FDJP; Karin Poggio, Project Manager for the Revision of Company Law, FDJP; Ricardo Guilherme, UPU; Agnes Camey, UPU; Elise Maurer, UPU; Jochen Krueck, UPU; Peter Jakob, CEO, Jakob AG; Urs Wittwer; Fengjie Eggimann-Kou; Julianey Wittwer; Ulrich Trautmann, First Counsellor, Delegation of the European Union; Thomas Näcke, First Counsellor, Delegation of the European Union.

• Law

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

• Multilingualism with a focus on heritage speakers

• Virtual Exchange

• Language Diversity (Institutional, social and individual multilingualism)

• Since 2008 Professor in Law Bern University of Applied Sciences, Business Department
• From 2006 to 2008 Lecturer in Law Bern University of Applied Sciences, Business Department
• From 1983 to 2008 Key work activities as a commercial clerk, administrator, tour guide, executive secretary, translator, teacher, course instructor, specialist consultant, legal intern, lawyer, specialist judge, managing director, in various working environments in Switzerland and abroad:
• . . - Private sector: Wagons-lits travel agency, Haas do Brasil, Pfaff, Incepa (Laufen Keramik), Jacobi & Hänni law and notary office, HSO business school organisations
• . . - Administration/authorities: Bern City Employment Office, Bern City Labour Court, Regional Courts of the Canton of Bern, Foundation Supervisory Authority (General Secretariat - EDI)
• . . NPO/NGO: Integration - Language - Work (ISA), Construction and Industry Union (GBI), humanrights.ch, Democratic - Lawyers (DJB), Thun Business School (WST)

• Switzerland Switzerland: Diploma in Commerce Business School, Bern
• Switzerland Teaching Certificate (teaching qualification for grades 1-9) Teacher Training College, Bern
• Switzerland Law degree (lic. iur.) Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Bern
• Switzerland Completion of undergraduate studies: General Linguistics Institute of Linguistics, University of Bern
• Switzerland Completion of undergraduate studies: German Linguistics Institute of German Studies, University of Bern
• Switzerland Postgraduate diploma: Quality Management Bern University of Applied Sciences, Social Work, Bern
• Switzerland Certificate in University Didactics Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern
• Brazil Linguistics & Literature (lic. em letras) (including teaching qualification for Portuguese language and literature, secondary levels 1+2) Universidade Tuiuti, Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences, Linguistics & Literature, Curitiba

• English as a Medium of Education, Multilingualism and Virtual Exchange: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

• Grupo de pesquisa - EMITI - Educação Multilinguismo Internacionalização Tecnologia Inglês

• Google Scholar (Publications)

• Bachelor of Business Administration (BScBA)
  +
  BFH diagonal (university-wide, interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary elective courses offered by BFH)

• EAIE, European Association for International Education (Steering group member of the Expert Community Language and Culture from 2018-2024))

• VALS-ASLA (Swiss Association for Applied Linguistics)

• DJS (Democratic Lawyers of Switzerland)

• FRI Swiss Institute for Feminist Legal Studies and Gender Law

Good practice – diverse and practical teaching: Learning law – or bringing a law lecture to life through commitment, a variety of methods and practical relevance.

• German - Full professional proficiency
• Portuguese - Full professional proficiency
• French - Full professional proficiency
• English - Professional working proficiency
• Italian - Professional working proficiency
• Spanish - Professional working proficiency

• Switzerland
• Brazil