The prize will be awarded for the nineteenth time at the Swiss Lawyers’ Congress on June 19, 2025 in Lucerne. It consists of an amount of 10,000 francs.
To encourage quality legal reporting and information for a wide audience on the nature and conditions of application of Swiss law, the Swiss Federation of Lawyers (FSA) is launching a competition for the FSA 2025 Media Prize.
The prize will be awarded for the nineteenth time at the Swiss Lawyers’ Congress on June 19, 2025 in Lucerne. It consists of an amount of 10,000 francs.
The FSA Media Award concerns all journalists from media outlets appearing periodically. Will be taken into consideration: press articles, reports, as well as radio and television broadcasts which meet one of the following conditions:
- objective and clear presentation on the essence and value of Swiss law and its authorities
- information about a legal profession
- well-founded criticism of the current legal system
Excluded from the competition: specialist legal publications, teaching aids, explanatory brochures, publications by FSA members and members of the FSA Media Prize jury, as well as trial files which do not comply with the regulations of the courts in matters of information.
-Each author or team of authors can only submit one work to the FSA Media Prize competition. It is up to the competitors to choose the work intended to be put into competition.
If several works are submitted, their contents must present an internal link. The judgment is on the whole. The jury does not consider multiple works which have no material link between them.
A jury will decide on the award of the FSA Media Prize. It is made up of judges, lawyers, jurists, journalists and politicians from across Switzerland and is chaired by former national councilor Franz Steinegger.
Are admitted: texts or broadcasts in one of the official languages, or in English, to the extent that such publications in this language are addressed to the international community living in Switzerland and evoke Swiss law. Radio and television broadcasts in dialect are permitted as long as they are accompanied by a detailed summary in High German. Publications that appeared between February 1, 2023 and January 31, 2025 and are submitted via the website no later than February 28, 2025 are considered.
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