Biography

Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Schwenzer, LL.M.

Ingeborg Schwenzer is Professor emerita of Private Law at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and former Dean of Swiss International Law School.
Additionally, she is an adjunct professor at Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia, and has been an adjunct professor at City University, Hong Kong, and at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

She has published numerous books and more than 200 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 co-editor and one of the main contributors of the world’s leading Commentary on the Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) (5th edition, Oxford, OUP: 2022) and its German, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, and Polish counterparts.

From 2011 to 2018 Ingeborg Schwenzer was the chair of the CISG Advisory Council. She is also active in all areas of legal practice. In particular, she regularly acts as arbitrator, counsel and legal expert in international disputes.