Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland

The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, known in German as the Bundesgericht, in French as the Tribunal federal, and in Italian as the Tribunale federale, and sometimes called the Swiss Federal Tribunal, is the supreme court of the Swiss Confederation and the head of the Swiss judiciary. It is headquartered in the Federal Courthouse in Lausanne, in the canton of Vaud, while two of its divisions, the third and fourth public law divisions, formerly the first and second social law divisions and before that the independent Federal Insurance Court, sit in Lucerne. The Federal Assembly elects forty justices to the Court, which is currently presided over by Francois Chaix.