Prof. Dr. iur. h.c. Carl Baudenbacher is a Full Professor of Civil, Commercial and Business Law and the Managing Director of the Institute of European and International Business Law at the University of St. Gallen HSG. He is the President of the EFTA Court. Baudenbacher received his doctoral degree from the University of Bern in 1978 and his habilitation from the University of Zürich in 1982.
Category Archives: Biographies of Authors – Globalization
Marc Blessing
Marc Blessing studied law at the University of Zurich, graduated in 1969 and obtained a doctoral degree in 1973. In 1972 he was admitted to the Zurich and Swiss Bar. Blessing has been partner of Bär & Karrer from 1979 to 2007.
Herbert Burkert
Herbert Burkert is currently the President of the Governing Board of the Research Center for Information Law, University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. He has been a Professor of Public Law and Communication Law at that University, after serving as Senior Research Director at the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS, St. Augustin, Germany.
Thomas Cottier, Editor and Author
Thomas Cottier, former Managing Director of the World Trade Institute and the Institute of European and International Economic Law, is a Professor emeritus of European and International Economic Law at the University of Bern. He was educated at the University of Bern and was a research fellow with Professor Jörg Paul Müller in constitutional and public international law.
Jens Drolshammer, Editor and Author
Jens Drolshammer was born in Switzerland in 1944 as a Swiss citizen of Norwegian and German descent. He studied Law at the University of Zurich (1964-1968). He studied in the Année d’Etudes Supérieures, University of Geneva, at the Institute for International Affairs of the University of Geneva and the Hague Academy of International Law (1969-1970).
Jean Nicolas Druey
Jean Nicolas Druey is an Emerite Professor of Civil and Business Law at the University of St. Gallen. He obtained his doctoral degree in 1966 at the University of Basel and was admitted to the bar of Basel in the same year. One year later he obtained an LL.M. at Harvard Law School.
Urs Gasser
Urs Gasser is the Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, a faculty member at Harvard Law School, Guest Professor at Keio University’s Environment and Information Studies, visiting professor at the University of St. Gallen, and a fellow at the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research.
Heinrich Koller
Heinrich Koller studied economics and social sciences at the Universities of St. Gallen, Paris and Winnipeg (1961-1966) and law at the University of Basel (1966-1970). For 3 years, he was a scientific assistant at the University of Basel, wrote his doctoral dissertation, and did the court and notary public practica in the Canton of Solothurn.
Peter L. Murray
Peter Murray was born in 1943 and is an authority in the fields of evidence, comparative law, trial advocacy, comparative civil procedure, and admiralty law. He started his education at Harvard College, where he studied from 1961 to 1964 and obtained an A.B degree in German.
Peter Nobel, Editor and Author
Peter Nobel studied political science at the University of St. Gallen; he graduated in 1973 with a doctoral thesis entitled “The Harmonization of Corporation Law in the European Common Market” (Dr. rer. publ.). For the following 3 years, he was engaged as a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Arthur Meier-Hayoz at the University of Zurich involved in commercial and company law and for 1 1/2 years, he was a research scholar at the University of Göttingen with Prof. Franz Wieacker focusing on legal history in the field of corporations.
John Palfrey
John Palfrey was born in 1972 and is an American author and educator, with expertise in the field of emerging information technologies. He is the fifteenth Head of School at Phillips Academy Andover. He previously served as executive director and is a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Raymond R. Probst
Raymond Probst is former Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States and Secretary of State in the Swiss Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Max Rheinstein
Max Rheinstein was born in 1899 in Bad Kreuznach and died on 1977, while vacationing in Bad Gastein, Austria. In World War I he served in an artillery regiment of the German army stationed on the Italian front after the collapse of the Austrian armies.
Pierre Tercier
Professor Pierre Tercier is an Emerite Professor in Civil Law, Contract and Commercial Law at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Daniel Thürer
Daniel Thürer received his legal education at the Universities of Zurich, St. Gallen, Geneva, Cambridge, the Max Planck Institute of Public International Law and Comparative Public Law (Heidelberg) and the Harvard Law School. He has been Professor of Public International, European, Swiss and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Zurich from 1983 until July 2010.
Hans-Ueli Vogt
Born: 1969 
Nationality: Swiss
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Professor Dr. Hans-Ueli Vogt studied law at the University of Zurich and graduated in 1995. From 1996 to 1998, he was a part-time research and teaching assistant at the University of Zurich for Prof. Dr. Peter Forstmoser and Prof. Dr. Roger Zäch. In 1998, he was admitted to the bar for the canton of Zürich.
Nedim Peter Vogt
Nedim Peter Vogt was born in 1952. He studied law at the University of Zurich and obtained his doctorate in 1982. In 1983 he studied at Harvard Law School, where he obtained an LL.M degree. Vogt worked as a lawyer in New York for two years and returned to Switzerland in 1985. Following his return in 1985, he assumed a lectureship in law at the University of Zurich and from 1989 up to 2011 and was partner of the law firm Bär & Karrer.