Ingeborg Schwenzer

Ingeborg Schwenzer is a full Professor of Private Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and an adjunct professor at the City University, Hong Kong. She has published numerous books and more than 150 articles in the fields of law of obligations (contracts, tort law and unjust enrichment, sales law both domestic and international), commercial arbitration as well as family law. In particular, she is the editor and main contributor of the world’s leading Commentary on the Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) (3rd edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press: 2010) and its Spanish counterpart Comentario sobre la convencion de las Naciones Unidas sobre los contratos de compraventa internacional de mercaderias, Cizor Menor, 2011 (jointly with Edgardo Munoz). She is director of the Global Sales Law Project with researchers from all over the world; the major work on Global Sales and Contract Law published in 2012 by Oxford University Press. Ingeborg Schwenzer is Chair of the CISG Advisory Council. She is also active in all areas of legal practice. In particular, she regularly acts as arbitrator and counsel in international disputes.