Ingeborg Schwenzer

Ingeborg Schwenzer ( born October 25, 1951 in Stuttgart ) is a German legal scholar and Professor of Private Law and Comparative Law at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Academic Career

Schwenzer studied from 1970 to 1975 law at the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg and the University of Geneva. 1973 to 1975 she worked as a student assistant at the Institute of Administrative Law at the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg.

1975 put Schwenzer from the first state examination in Baden- Württemberg. She earned it the third best result among 209 candidates.

1975-1976 studied Schwenzer at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a Master of Laws with the award high honors.

1977-1981 Schwenzer was a research associate of Peter Schlechtriem at the Institute for Comparative and International Private Law at the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg. In 1978, she was with the work of the exemption from the seller from the liability for defects in the American and German law to Dr. iur. utr. doctorate. This work was awarded the Lord City Award for the best thesis of the year 1978.

1978 to 1980, graduated Schwenzer a legal internship in Freiburg in 1980 placed it from the Second State Law Examination and reached it the best result among 334 candidates.

1980-1987 was Schwenzer lecturer in private law and commercial law at the administrative and economic Academy in Freiburg

1986 Schwenzer received a teaching position at the University of Marburg.

1987 Schwenzer was supported by the Faculty of Law of the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg with the work from the state to the real relationship - habilitation Family Law in Transition. She received the venia legendi for the subjects of civil law, commercial law, private international law and comparative law. Subsequently, they took over the representation of a Chair of Civil Law, Commercial and Labour Law at the University of Konstanz. In the same year Schwenzer received calls to the University of Cologne as a professor of Civil Law and a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz as a professor of Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law. Latter reputation took it and was in December 1987 as Professor of Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz appointed.

In 1989 she was appointed to the University of Basel, she accepted. This Schwenzer was the first ( female ) full professor at a law school in Switzerland and second full professor at the University of Basel. Since April 1989 Schwenzer is full Professor of Private Law at the University of Basel.

Subsequent calls to a professor for German and European Private Law at the University of Kiel (1991 ), as well as a professor of private law at the Humboldt University of Berlin ( 1995) rejected Schwenzer.

Schwenzer since 2010 adjunct professor at the City University of Hong Kong, and, since 2013 at Griffith University, Australia.

Schwenzer had various guest professorships: 1994 to 2002 at the European Institute, Basel, 2008 at Loyola University Chicago, USA, 2011 at the Université de Paris Val -de- Marne, France, 2009 to the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 2010 University of Buea, Cameroon, also İstanbul Bilgi, 2011 at the University, Turkey, in 2012 at Ankara University, Turkey, also in 2012 at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil, and in 2013 at the Universitetet i Oslo, Norway.

Research and Intessengebiete

Schwenzer conducts research primarily in the field of bonds, commercial and family law. Moreover, their interest also to arbitration law and in particular the mass Hochschuldidaktik applies.

Global Sales Law

The Global Sales Law Project is a Rechtsvergleichungsprojekt in the field of purchasing and contract law.

Global Sales and Contract Law

Main component of the project is the manual Global Sales and Contract Law ( GSCL ), which wrote Schwenzer together with Pascal Hachem and Christopher Kee. This guide compares the purchase and contract laws of over 60 countries. Special feature is that the comparison is not done on the basis of independent individual country reports, but rather fully functional. The authors were able to supervised also by Schwenzer dissertations by Mohamed Hafez ( Arabia and Middle East), Natia Lapiashvili (Eastern Europe and Central Asia), Edgardo Muñoz (Latin America ), Jean -Alain Penda Matipe ( Central and South Africa) and Sophia Juan Yang ( South East Asia) fall back, each aufarbeiteten right circle.

Commentary on the CISG

Schwenzer is the editor of the standard commentary on the CISG. This comment will appear in German (5th edition 2007 ), English ( 3rd edition 2009), Spanish ( 1st edition 2011) and is currently being translated into Chinese.

CISG -online.ch

Schwenzer oversees the leading database in the German-speaking area, which includes all relevant cases from the area of ​​the UN Sales Convention. The database was established in 1995 by Peter Schlechtriem at the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg. In 2002, Schwenzer care.

Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot

Schwenzer has been increasing since the first Willem C. Vis Moot 1994 partially as an arbiter of which takes place in Vienna 's biggest international competition for Arbitration. Since 2004, it will also at the sister competition Willem C. Vis Moot East in Hong Kong as part referee. In addition Schwenzer care since 1995 the team of the University of Basel in these competitions.

Model Family Code

With the Model Family Code Schwenzer created in 2006 together with Mariel Dimsey a codification of family law in the style of a model law. Was based on a comprehensive comparison of family law orders both European and especially Anglo-American and Oceanic jurisdictions. The Model Family Code has the decisive advantage that it contains a coherent system in itself contrary to the most minor changes constantly subjugated nation-state family laws. In addition, the Model Family Code provides the ability to flexibly adapt this core system through the implementation of cultural values ​​to the respective family political reality.

Selected Publications and Editorial Boards

According to a list of publications of the University of Basel (February 2013) published Schwenzer previous 16 monographs, 52 articles in edited volumes, 78 journal articles, 24 commentaries, one newspaper article, 18 judgment notes, 28 reviews as well as 5 various publications and holds 22 Editorships.

  • Swiss Code of Obligations, General Section, 6th edition, Bern: Stämpfli Verlag AG 2012, ISBN 978-3-7272-8676-6
  • Edited, with Christiana Fountoulakis and Mariel Dimsey, International Sales Law, 2nd edition, Oxford: Hart Publishing 2012, ISBN 978-1-84946-302-7
  • With Pascal Hachem and Christopher Kee: Global Sales and Contract Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-957298-4
  • General introduction, Arts. 125-132 of the Civil Code, in: Schwenzer ( Eds.), Family Law Divorce comment, 2nd edition, Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7272-2882-7
  • Eds, Family Law Divorce comment (2 volumes), 2nd edition, Bern: Stämpfli Verlag AG 2011, ISBN 978-3-7272-2882-7
  • Edited, with Edgardo Muñoz, Schlechtriem & Schwenzer: Comentario sobre la Convencion de las Naciones Unidas sobre los de contratos compraventa internacional de mercaderias, Cizur Menor (Navarra ): Editorial Aranzadi SA 2011, ISBN 978-84-9903-761-5
  • Family and law, Bern: Stämpfli Verlag AG 2010, ISBN 978-3-7272-8726-8
  • Eds, Schlechtriem & Schwenzer, Commentary on the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods ( CISG), 3rd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-956897-0
  • With Mariel Dimsey, Model Family Code, Antwerp / Oxford: Intersentia 2006, ISBN 978-90-5095-590-4
  • Restitution of Benefits in Family Relationships, International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, Vol X: Restitution - Unjust Enrichment and negotiorum gestion, Chapter 12, Tübingen / Dordrecht / Boston / Lancaster: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 1997 ISBN 978-90-04-16309 - 6
  • From status to the real relationship - Family Law in Transition, Baden -Baden: Nomos Verlag, 1987, ISBN 3-7890-1492-3
  • The exemption of the seller from liability for defects in American and German Law ( work on comparative law, Volume 95), Frankfurt aM 1979, ISBN 3-7875-0195-9

Selected functions and memberships

  • 2011 Advisor to the Swiss Ministry of Justice in the field of family law
  • Since 2010 Member of the European Law Institute
  • Since 2008 Full member of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
  • Since 2004 Vice-Chair of the Permanent Deputation of the German Jurists
  • Since 2003, a founding board member of the Center for Family Studies
  • Since 2003 Member of the International Sales Convention Advisory Council ( CISG -AC)
  • Since 2001 member of the expert group of the European Commission of family law
  • 1999 - 2005 Member of the Board of Civil Law Teachers' Association
  • Since 1983 Member of the German Association of Women Lawyers Association

Awards

  • 2011 Law Career Achievement Award of the Arab Society for Commercial and Maritime Law
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