Habegger, Philipp A.

Lawyer, arbitrator

• 1989 lic. iur., University of Zurich Law School
• 1996 Dr. iur., University of Zurich Law School
• 1990-991 Clerk, District Court
• 1992-1993 Attorney, Zurich law firm
• 1994 LL. M., University of Chicago Law School
• 1995 Foreign Attorney in a law firm in New York

More than 220 arbitration proceedings as counsel and arbitrator under a variety of arbitration rules (ICC, Swiss Rules, LCIA, SIAC, VIAC, AAA/ICDR, SCC, Finland Arbitration Institute and UNCITRAL) and involving the substantive laws of Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, England & Wales, Russia, India, Turkey, Panama, The Netherlands, Liechtenstein, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Serbia, North Macedonia, Greece, Malta, Albania, Estonia, Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, South Korea, Japan, Finland, New York and California, as well as the UN Sales Convention (CISG) and the UNIDROIT Principles.

• Das Parlament verabschiedet die Revision von Kapitel 12 IPRG mit einem Feinschliff (revision of Swiss international arbitration law), in: ASA Bull. 3/2020, pp. 548-579
• Zwischen vertraglichem Konsens und grundrechtlichem Zwang – Die unfreiwillige Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (forced arbitration), in: Helmut Heiss / Peter Isler / Wolfgang Portmann / Florent Thouvenin (Eds.), Gedächtnisschrift für Claire Huguenin, St. Gallen, 2019
• Saving Time and Costs in Arbitration, in: Manuel Arroyo (Ed.), Arbitration in Switzerland - The Practitioner's Guide: Commentary, Wolters Kluwer, 2nd Ed., The Hague, 2018
• Article 43 of the Swiss Rules: Emergency Relief, in: Manuel Arroyo (Ed.), Arbitration in Switzerland - The Practitioner's Guide: Commentary, Wolters Kluwer, 2nd Ed., The Hague, 2018
• Introduction: ICC Rules, in: Manuel Arroyo (Ed.), Arbitration in Switzerland - The Practitioner's Guide: Commentary, Wolters Kluwer, 2nd Ed., The Hague, 2018

• SAV
• IBA
• ASA
• LCIA
• DIS
• ICC Institute of World Business Law
• ICC Commission on Arbitration

Philipp Habegger is a past president of the Arbitration Court of the Swiss Chambers' Arbitration Institution (which administers the Swiss Rules). He is a former court member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (2009-2015) and a former vice chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association and vice president of the LCIA European Users' Council. Philipp Habegger currently teaches international arbitration and international sales (CISG) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich and acts as a course director for the Swiss Arbitration Academy.