Schwenzer, Ingeborg

Professor of private law, independent arbitrator

• Law of obligations (contracts
• torts
• restitution)
• sales law
• international commercial law
• CISG

• 1970-1975: studies at Universities of Tübingen (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), Freiburg i.Br. (Germany).
• 1975: First State examination (Freiburg i.Br., 3/209).
• 1976: LL.M. (University of California, Berkeley, High honors).
• 1978: Dr. iur. utr. (Freiburg i.Br., summa cum laude).
• 1980: Second State examination (Stuttgart, 1/334).
• 1987: Habilitation (Freiburg i.Br.).

Repeated appointments as chair, co-arbitrator and sole arbitrator, Swiss co-counsel (Swiss Rules, ICC, DIS, LCIA, ad hoc). Regularly acting as expert on Swiss and German law. Subject matter of proceedings: sales and supply contracts, construction, plant and equipment, distribution, joint ventures, commercial contracts.

• Global Sales and Contract Law, Oxford 2012, cxciii and 873 p. (jointly with Pascal Hachem and Christopher Kee)
• International Sales Law, Oxford 2012 (jointly with Christiana Fountoulakis and Mariel Dimsey)
• Schlechtriem/Schwenzer, Commentary on the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG), 3rd edition, Oxford 2010, xcvi and 1480 p.
• Schweizerisches Obligationenrecht, Allgemeiner Teil, 5. Aufl., Bern 2009, XLV und 657 S.
• Moral Damages in International Investment Arbitration, in: Kröll/Mistelis/Perales Viscasillas/Rogers (ed.), International Arbitration and International Commercial Law: Synergy, Convergence and Evolution, Liber Amicorum Eric Bergsten, Alphen aan den Rijn 2011, pp. 411-430 (jointly with Pascal Hachem).

• German
• English
• French
• Spanish (basic)

• ASA
• DIS
• IBA
• LCIA