After studying law at the University of Neuchâtel, Audrey Leuba obtained her license to practice law and then completed a Master of Laws (LL.M.) at Harvard Law School, supported by an early-career researcher grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). In 1994, she passed the New York State Bar Examination. She is the author of a doctoral dissertation devoted to the division of duties between spouses in light of the principle of gender equality. After serving as a teaching assistant and then lecturer at the Universities of Neuchâtel and Geneva (DEA in Gender Studies), Audrey Leuba became an associate professor in Neuchâtel thanks to an SNSF grant, which she dedicated to research on the situation of elderly persons in nursing homes. In 2006, she was appointed full professor at the University of Geneva, where she teaches family law, estate planning, and adult protection law.
Audrey Leuba has served on various bodies at both the Swiss federal and cantonal levels. Notably, she chaired the Swiss Lawyers’ Society. She has also been a member of the Federal Extra-Parliamentary Coordination Commission for Family Affairs (COFF), a member of several expert groups convened by the Federal Office of Justice, a member of the High Council of the Judiciary of the Canton of Geneva, a member of the Foundation Board of Pro Senectute Switzerland, a member of the management board of the Institute of Health Law (UniNE), and a member of the Central Ethics Committee of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS).
Deeply involved in the life of the University of Geneva’s Faculty of Law as well as in that of the institution as a whole, she has chaired numerous faculty committees, served on the faculty’s dean’s office, headed the Department of Civil Law, and became dean of the faculty in 2022. On 29 November 2023, upon recommendation of the University Assembly, the Council of State appointed Audrey Leuba Rector of the University of Geneva for the period from 1 April 2024 to 14 July 2028.