Me Laurent Contat

CAS for criminal magistrates, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Neuchâtel, 2011

Bar exam, Lausanne, 2009

Postgraduate Diploma in Criminology (DESS), School of Criminal Sciences (ESC), Lausanne, 2005

Law degree, Faculty of Law, University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, 2003

Prosecutor at the Lausanne Public Prosecutor’s Office,
january 2011 – december 2022

Investigating Judge at the Criminal Investigation Offices of Yverdon and Vevey, June 2010 and November – December 2010

Substitute clerk to the Civil Court, Cantonal Court, Vaud, July 2010 – October 2010

Deputy Public Prosecutor at the Vaud Public Prosecutor’s Office, Lausanne, February 2010 – May 2010

Substitute and ad hoc clerk at the Tribunal d’arrondissement de la Broye et du Nord vaudois and at the Tribunal d’arrondissement de la Côte, March 2009 – August 2009

Trainee lawyer, Chaulmontet et associés, September 2006 – November 2008

Substitute/ad hoc clerk at the Social Insurance Court and then at the Criminal Court of Cassation, Cantonal Court, Vaud, November 2005 – August 2006

Secretary to the Office of the Cantonal Examining Magistrate, January 2004 – August 2006

Lecturer in criminal road traffic law at the Association des services des automobiles, Lausanne, since 2017

Lecturer in criminal law and criminal procedure law at the Swiss Center of Competence in the Execution of Criminal Sanctions, Fribourg, since 2019

Erfolgreiche Dopingbekämpfung mittels Sportförderungsgesetz? – Versuch einer Bilanz nach acht Jahren (with M. Steiner), 2020, Causa Sport – 3/2020 – Nomos

The de-socializing effect of preventive detention: a necessary evil? A practitioner’s point of viewin: F. Genillod-Villard, S. Keller, M. Niggli, Ch. Schwarzenegger: La réhabilitation dans la société du risque zéro, Groupe Suisse de Criminologie, v. 37, 2020, Stämpfli, Bern

Dopingbekämpfung durch Staat und Private in der Schweiz (with M. Steiner et alii), 2016, Causa Sport – 2/2016 – Boorberg, Jan Sramek Verlag, DIKE

Investigation secrète: de la LFIS au Code de procédure pénale suisse; bref état des lieux, in: Revue Pénale Suisse, 3/2012, 2012, Stämpfli Edition, Bern

Avant-projet de la LCA du 31 juillet 2006 (with O. Carré), in: HAVE/REAS, 3/2007, 2007, Schulthess, Zurich

Le sursis selon le CP 1937, in: Droit des sanctions De l’ancien au nouveau droit , edited by A. Kuhn, L. Moreillon, B. Viredaz, A. Willi-Jayet, 2004, Staempfli Edition, Bern

The de-socializing effect of preventive detention: a necessary evil? A practitioner’s point of viewpresentation at the annual conferenceof the Swiss Criminology Group, Interlaken March 7, 2019