Jacques de Werra is ordinary/full professor of the law of obligations (contract law) and of intellectual property law at the Faculty of Law. He is the Director of the Digital Law Center (www.digitallawcenter.ch).

Jacques de Werra has taught as visiting professor at various leading universities abroad (Harvard Law School - January 2022 as Charles Hieken Visiting Professor in Patent Law for a course on "International Intellectual Property Transactions", Stanford Law School, Paris 2 - Panthéon Assas, Université Catholique de Louvain, City University of Hong Kong, University of Nagoya).

He was Vice-Rector of the University of Geneva (July 2015 - July 2019) where he was in charge of scientific information, technology transfer, relations with international organizations and the of University-wide project "Digital University". He piloted the institutional digital strategy, which led to the adoption of the University's digital strategy and to the implementing action plan (at the end of 2018).

Jacques de Werra is involved in various research and legal training institutions inside and outside the University in the fields of intellectual property law, information and communication technology law and digital law.