Alexander Rey
Alexander Rey's practice focuses on public law, both in an advisory and litigation capacity. His practice focuses on construction, planning and environmental law, expropriation law, nature and heritage protection law, general administrative law and public procedural law.
Alexander Rey assists his clients in particular in complex development projects with diverse planning and environmental aspects and different stakeholders (investors, municipality and canton, residents and environmental associations).

Career
1985 - 1990
Law studies at the University of Basel (lic. iur.)
1995 - 2021
Partner in the law firms Merker Kersten Rey (until 2000) and Binder Rechtsanwälte Baden (2001 - 2021)
1992
Acquisition of the Aargau bar exam
2010 - 2011
Education Specialist Lawyer SAV Construction and Real Estate Law
1992 - 1995
2022
Co-founder and partner at Rey Läuffer Hofstetter Attorneys at Law, Baden
Career
1985 - 1990
Law studies at the University of Basel (lic. iur.)
1992
Acquisition of the Aargau bar exam
1992 - 1995
1995 - 2021
Partner in the law firms Merker Kersten Rey (until 2000) and Binder Rechtsanwälte Baden (2001 - 2021)
2010 - 2011
Education Specialist Lawyer SAV Construction and Real Estate Law
2022
Co-founder and partner at Rey Läuffer Hofstetter Attorneys at Law, Baden
Alexander Rey
Sideline
Activities
All current part-time activities
by Alexander Rey
Member
Member of the Valuation Commission of the Canton of Zug (Chairman of the Expropriation Chamber)
Lecturer
Lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts for Building, Planning and Environmental Law
Co-convener
Co-Chairman (with Prof. Peter Hettich) of the annual conference "Current Developments in Construction, Planning and Environmental Law" of the University of St. Gallen
Speaker
Regular speaker at various conferences, in particular at the Swiss Lawyers' Congress, Specialist Lawyers' Course SAV Construction and Real Estate Law (University of Fribourg), Conference Specialist Lawyers' Association SAV Construction and Real Estate Law
Board member
Member of the board local party FDP Birmenstorf
Publications
Alexander Rey/David Hofstetter
Suspensively conditional building permits do not have to be immediately contested before the Federal Supreme Court, in: BR/DC 5/2023, p. 274 ff.
Alexander Rey/David Hofstetter
The Federal Supreme Court case law on suspensively granted building permits, in: BR/DC 1/2023, p. 5 ff.
Alexander Rey/David Hofstetter
Kurzgutachten zur marktkonformen Expropriation Compensation for Cultivated Land, in: Blätter für Agrarrecht (BlAR) 2/2021, pp. 89 ff.
Alexander Rey
Contribution to the topics of development, regulations on design and classification as well as protection of the site and preservation of historical monuments, in: Fachhandbuch Öffentliches Baurecht, Zurich 2016.
Alexander Rey
Mobile radio installations: relationship between federal environmental law, spatial planning law and building law, in particular building procedure law, in KPG Bulletin 2/2021.
Alexander Rey
Aktuelle Rechts - und Vollzugsfragen bei der Altlastenbearbeitung, in: Umweltrecht in der Praxis (URP) 6/2011, p. 573 ff.
Alexander Rey
Mobile radio installations: Relationship between federal environmental law, spatial planning law and building law, in particular building procedure law, in Umweltrecht in der Praxis (URP) 2/2021
Alexander Rey
Die Kostenverteilung bei der Anwendung von Art. 3 AltlV, in: Baurecht (BR) 4/2010, p. 202 ff.
David Hofstetter/Alexander Rey
Classification of Art. 19 lit. abis EntG in the compensation system under expropriation law, in: Aktuelle Juristische Praxis (AJP) 2/2021, p. 206 et seq.
Alexander Rey/Benjamin Wittwer
Die Ausschreibungspflicht bei der Übertragung von Monopolen nach revidiertem Binnenmarktgesetz, in: Aktuelle Juristische Praxis (AJP), 5/2007 p. 485 ff.
Alexander Rey
Contribution to the protection of architectural monuments in the book series "Kommentierte Mustereinlagen im Verwaltungsrecht", Zurich 2020
Alexander Rey
Non-discriminatory Electricity Grid Allocation, Instrument of Public Service or Competition?, in NZZ of April 6, 2006.
Alexander Rey
Contribution on monument protection and expropriation law in the "Handbuch Heimatschutzrecht", 2020
Alexander Rey
Network Infrastructures in the Liberalized Market, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, August 29, 2001.
David Hofstetter/Alexander Rey
Restkostenfinanzierung und Wirtschaftlichkeitskontrolle, in: Pflegerecht 4/18, p. 198 ff.
Alexander Rey
Data Protection in Hospitals under Public Law and the Right to Data Transfer of the Regional Churches of the Canton of Aargau, in: Schweizerisches Jahrbuch für Kirchenrecht 1998
David Hofstetter/Alexander Rey
Teilteteignung und Schutzschildtheorie, in: Schweizerisches Zentralblatt für Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht (ZBl) 118/2017, p. 243 et seq.
Publications
Alexander Rey/David Hofstetter
Kurzgutachten zur marktkonformen Expropriation Compensation for Cultivated Land, in: Blätter für Agrarrecht (BlAR) 2/2021, pp. 89 ff.
Alexander Rey
Mobile radio installations: relationship between federal environmental law, spatial planning law and building law, in particular building procedure law, in KPG Bulletin 2/2021.
Alexander Rey
Mobile radio installations: Relationship between federal environmental law, spatial planning law and building law, in particular building procedure law, in Umweltrecht in der Praxis (URP) 2/2021
David Hofstetter/Alexander Rey
Classification of Art. 19 lit. abis EntG in the compensation system under expropriation law, in: Aktuelle Juristische Praxis (AJP) 2/2021, p. 206 et seq.
Alexander Rey
Contribution to the protection of architectural monuments in the book series "Kommentierte Mustereinlagen im Verwaltungsrecht", Zurich 2020
Alexander Rey
Contribution on monument protection and expropriation law in the "Handbuch Heimatschutzrecht", 2020
David Hofstetter/Alexander Rey
Restkostenfinanzierung und Wirtschaftlichkeitskontrolle, in: Pflegerecht 4/18, p. 198 ff.
David Hofstetter/Alexander Rey
Teilteteignung und Schutzschildtheorie, in: Schweizerisches Zentralblatt für Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht (ZBl) 118/2017, p. 243 et seq.
Alexander Rey
Contribution to the topics of development, regulations on design and classification as well as protection of the site and preservation of historical monuments, in: Fachhandbuch Öffentliches Baurecht, Zurich 2016.
Alexander Rey
Aktuelle Rechts - und Vollzugsfragen bei der Altlastenbearbeitung, in: Umweltrecht in der Praxis (URP) 6/2011, p. 573 ff.
Alexander Rey
Die Kostenverteilung bei der Anwendung von Art. 3 AltlV, in: Baurecht (BR) 4/2010, p. 202 ff.
Alexander Rey/Benjamin Wittwer
Die Ausschreibungspflicht bei der Übertragung von Monopolen nach revidiertem Binnenmarktgesetz, in: Aktuelle Juristische Praxis (AJP), 5/2007 p. 485 ff.
Alexander Rey
Non-discriminatory Electricity Grid Allocation, Instrument of Public Service or Competition?, in NZZ of April 6, 2006.
Alexander Rey
Network Infrastructures in the Liberalized Market, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, August 29, 2001.
Alexander Rey
Data Protection in Hospitals under Public Law and the Right to Data Transfer of the Regional Churches of the Canton of Aargau, in: Schweizerisches Jahrbuch für Kirchenrecht 1998
Presentations (selection)
Compensation for transition rights (protective shield practice) - comments on the decision 1C_647/2019 of October 8, 2020, conference IRP-St. Gallen 2020
Current developments in construction, planning and environmental law, Swiss Lawyers' Congress 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019.
Current developments in construction, planning and environmental law, Conference Specialist Lawyers SAV Construction and Real Estate Law 2021, 2019, 2016.
Development problems in evolved situations: Procedures and financial consequences. Conference IRP - University of St. Gallen 2017
Expropriation Law, Conference of the Swiss Farmers' Union, Brugg November 3, 2016
Land Purchase - Due Diligence under Building, Planning and Environmental Law, Conference IRP - University of St. Gallen, 2012.
Material Expropriation in the Adaptation of Land Use Plans Conforming to the Spatial Planning Act, Conference IRP - University of St. Gallen 2010.
CO2 Law and Legislation Project - Overview of Climate Law in Switzerland, Conference IRP - University of St. Gallen 2008
Public-intensive buildings, Conference IRP - University of St. Gallen 2006
Presentations (selection)
Compensation for transition rights (protective shield practice) - comments on the decision 1C_647/2019 of October 8, 2020, conference IRP-St. Gallen 2020
Current developments in construction, planning and environmental law, Swiss Lawyers' Congress 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019.
Current developments in construction, planning and environmental law, Conference Specialist Lawyers SAV Construction and Real Estate Law 2021, 2019, 2016.
Development problems in evolved situations: Procedures and financial consequences. Conference IRP - University of St. Gallen 2017
Expropriation Law, Conference of the Swiss Farmers' Union, Brugg November 3, 2016
Land Purchase - Due Diligence under Building, Planning and Environmental Law, Conference IRP - University of St. Gallen, 2012.
Material Expropriation in the Adaptation of Land Use Plans Conforming to the Spatial Planning Act, Conference IRP - University of St. Gallen 2010.
CO2 Law and Legislation Project - Overview of Climate Law in Switzerland, Conference IRP - University of St. Gallen 2008
Public-intensive buildings, Conference IRP - University of St. Gallen 2006