Welcome to SwissLegal Rouiller & Associés Avocats SA, President François Paychère, Doctor of Law

SwissLegal Rouiller & Associés Avocats SA, in Lausanne and Geneva, is delighted and honored to welcome Mr. François Paychère, President, to the firm as of March 2025.

He devoted 12 years of his extensive judicial career to the Court of Audit of the Republic and Canton of Geneva (from 2013 to 2024). He was its president. Previously, he had been an appeal judge at the Court of Justice (criminal section) and President of the Administrative Court of Geneva. He currently sits as a judge on the Administrative Tribunal of the European Space Agency (ESA) and on the Conseil de la magistrature of the canton of Vaud.

In addition to his doctoral thesis, defended in 1990 at the Université Panthéon Assas (Paris-2) under the title “Théorie du discours juridique. Essai sur les apports des sciences du langage à la théorie générale du droit”, he is also the author of major contributions to legal theory, and has shared his thoughts on a wide range of practical legal issues in widely-read scientific articles. For many years now, he has been examining the potential and actual influence of various forms of artificial intelligence on decision-making processes in the legal world.

He currently concentrates his consultancy work on public law issues.