Charles Joye
Our lawyer’s background
Charles Joye
After completing his doctorate, Charles Joye practiced with two business law firms and developed recognized experience in litigation and corporate advisory services, particularly in the fields of unfair competition, intellectual property, civil liability, commercial contracts and employment law.
In sports law, he advises a major international sports federation, which he has been assisting and representing in court for over twenty years.
Following on from his thesis, he has also developed recognized expertise in data protection and transparency law, medical law and healthcare law, areas in which he offers highly specialized advice to private companies and public authorities, healthcare establishments and doctors, assisting them in structuring and managing their activities.
As a member of the Faculty of Law and Criminal Sciences at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Charles Joye teaches at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in the fields of intellectual property and technological research law, with a particular focus on human research law.
Practice areas
Medical law
Health law
Civil and criminal liability
Contract law
Data protection
Transparency
Personality protection
Employment law
Intellectual property
Unfair competition
Training and qualifications
Bar exam, Vaud, 2002
Doctorate in Law, UNIL, 2002
Law degree, UNIL, 1996
Experience
Rodondi Joye avocats, founder and partner, 2012 to 2025
Kasser Schlosser, Partner, 2011 to 2012
Bourgeois Avocats, associate, 2002 to 2011
CBWM & Associés, trainee lawyer, 2000 to 2002
Civil Court of the Cantonal Court of the Canton of Vaud, ad hoc clerk, 2001
Federal Data Protection Commission, ad hoc clerk, 2000
UNIL Corporate Law Center (CEDIDAC), assistant, 1996 to 1998
Cantonal Commission on Ethics in Human Research (VD), member, 2000 to 2022
Patient Complaints Commission (VD), Chairman, 2007 to 2013
Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS), member of a working group on the use of cadavers and cadaver parts in medical research and pre-, post-graduate and continuing education, 2007 to 2008
Medical Center Vaud SA, Board member and Chairman, 2015 to 2019
Pro Infirmis Vaud (VD), Committee member, 2009 to 2019
Hypertension Research Foundation, Board member, 2008 to 2019
UNIL Faculty of Law and Criminal Sciences, lecturer in biomedical law, 2002 to 2008
Other activities
Faculty of Law and Criminal Sciences University of Lausanne (UNIL) / Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) substitute professor / lecturer, intellectual property / technological research law, from 2011
UNIL Ethics Commission, member, from 2019
EPFL Ethics Commission, member, since 2013
FIVB Volleyball Foundation, member-secretary, from 2024
Magellan.ch SA, Board member and Chairman, since 2013
Fondation Gustave Buchet, Chairman, from 2012
Languages
French
German
English
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