Born: 1962
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Marc Amstutz is a tenured professor for private and commercial law as well as legal theory at the University of Fribourg’s Law Faculty.
Category Archives: Biographies of Authors – Swiss Law and Economics
Carl Baudenbacher
Born: 1947
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Carl Baudenbacher is a full professor of civil, commecial and business law and the managing director of the Institute of European and International Business Law at the University of St. Gallen HSG.
Peter Böckli
Born: 1936
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Peter Böckli completed his legal studies in Basel in 1960 with a thesis on shareholders’ voting rights and began to practice as an attorney-at-law in 1962. From 1963 to 1966, he was employed as a trainee and then as an associate with White & Case in New York and Paris.
Walther Burckhardt
Born: 1871
Died: 1939
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Walther Burckhardt studied law at the universities of Leipzig and Neuchâtel. After graduating in 1893, he continued his studies in Berlin and Bern. His doctoral dissertation was supervised by Eugen Huber in 1895 and addressed the legal nature of the personal associations in the Swiss Code of Obligations (OR).
Francois Chaudet
Born: 1946
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. François Chaudet is an Emeritus Professor of University of Lausanne Law School. He completed his legal studies in 1968 and obtained a doctorate of Law in 1972. He is currently the initial founding partner at CBWM & Partners (now “Associates”), a leading business law firm in the Lake Geneva area.
Jean Nicolas Druey
Born: 1937
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Jean Nicolas Druey is a Professor Emeritus of civil and business law at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). 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. from Harvard Law School.
Peter Forstmoser
Born: 1943
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Peter Forstmoser studied law at the University of Zurich, where he completed his Doctorate and his Habilitation. He became an attorney-at-law in 1971 and received a Master’s Degree in law from Harvard Law School in 1972. From 1974 to 2008, Professor Forstmoser was a law professor at the University of Zurich, where he is now an Professor Emeritus. He is also an honorary professor at the Beijing Normal University.
Lukas Gschwend
Born: 1967
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Lukas Gschwend studied law at the University of Zurich and concluded his studies with a Master of Law. Thereafter, he worked as a research assistant at the university’s Chair for legal history and civil Law.
Andreas Heinemann
Born: 1962
Nationality: German
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Andreas Heinemann studied Law and Economics in Bonn, Hagen, Geneva, Strasbourg and Munich. Following legal clerkships in London, Stockholm, Paris and Munich, he completed the École nationale d`administration (ENA, Promotion “Condorcet”) in 1990 and 1991.
Gerard Hertig
Born: 1952 
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Gérard Hertig has been a professor of law at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich since October 1995. He was previously a professor of Administrative Law at the University of Geneva Law School and director of its Centre d’Etudes Juridiques Européennes (1987-1995).
Ernst Höhn
Born: 1930
Died: 2010
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Ernst Höhn studied law at the University of Zurich. After the successful completion of his studies, he had to choose between an academic career or a career in administration. On one hand, he was impressed by the role model of his professors, Hans Nef and Max Imboden; on the other hand, he was tempted by the challenges offered by the practice. The latter gained the upper hand, and he started working for the Canton of Zurich. He held a number of positions at a court and at the public administration.
Eric Homburger
Born: 1920
Died: 2010
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Eric Homburger studied law at the universities of Geneva and Zurich and earned his Doctorate in jurisprudence with a dissertation entitled “Handels- und Gewerbefreiheit und Vertragsfreiheit” under the supervision of Professor Zaccaria Giacometti in 1948. This was followed by several years of work at the courts of Zurich, first at the Horgen District Court and, subsequently, as a clerk of the Commercial Court of the Canton of Zurich.
Beat Hotz
Born: 1948
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Beat Hotz-Hart studied economics and political science at the University of Zurich, where he also wrote his Doctorate. in 1978.
Walther Hug
Born: 1898
Died: 1980
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Walther Hug studied law and economics at the universities of Zurich, Berlin and Bern. In 1924, he earned his Doctorate in jurisprudence by completing a dissertation on the law of termination with August Egger.
Christine Kaufmann
Born: 1962
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Christine Kaufman studied law at the University of Zurich and finished her legal studies in 1987. From 1987 until 1991, she worked as an assistant for Professor Daniel Thürer, who held the Chair for public international law, European law, constitutional and administrative law. In 1990, Professor Kaufman received her Doctorate. (summa cum laude) based on a dissertation with the title: “Hunger als Rechtsproblem – völkerrechtliche Aspekte eines Rechtes auf Nahrung”.
Henner Kleinewefers
Born: 1942
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Henner Kleinewefers studied law and social science at the University of Cologne. He was awarded a summa cum laude Doctorate (Ph. D. oec. publ.) from the University of Zurich. Subsequently, he was involved as a research assistant for the Swiss National Science Foundation in a project entitled, “Die Geldversorgung der Schweiz” at the Swiss Institute for Banking and Finance at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) under the leadership of Professor Sandrina Ritzmann.
Arnold Koller
Born: 1933
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Arnold Koller studied law at the University of St. Gallen from where he obtained his degree in 1957. He subsequently pursued doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg and received his Doctorate in 1966. He completed his habilitation in 1977 on the subject of model corporate law and engaged in post-graduate studies at the University of California, Berkely (USA).
Peter V. Kunz
Born: 1965
Nationality Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Peter V. Kunz studied law and economics at the University of Berne from 1984 until 1991. Following his admission to the Bar for the Canton of Bern in 1991, he was engaged as an assistant with the Institute for Economic Law at the University of Bern until 1993, at which time he also received his Doctorate.
Klaus Mathis
Born: 1967
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Klaus Mathis grew up in the Canton of Zug, Switzerland and studied economics and jurisprudence at the University of Zurich. He was an assistant lecturer in legal philosophy at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich and wrote a doctoral dissertation entitled, “Efficiency Instead of Justice? Searching for the Philosophical Foundations of the Economic Analysis of Law”.
Christian J. Meier
Born: 1940
Nationality: German
Education and professional activities:
Prof. Dr. Christian J. Meier-Schatz studied law at the University of Bern and the University of California (Berkeley, California).
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.
Henry Peter
Born: 1957
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Prof. Dr. Henry Peter studied law between 1976-1979 at the University of Geneva and graduated with the degree “licence en droit”. In 1981 he was admitted to the Bar in Geneva. In 1988 he obtained his PhD degree in Geneva after having been a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley between 1983 and 1984.
Richard Posner
Born: 1939
Nationality: American
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Richard Allen Posner is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. He is the leading figure in the field of law and economics and has been recognized by the Journal of Legal Studies as the most cited legal scholar of the 20th century.
Fritz Rittner
Born: 1921
Died: 2010
Nationality: German
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Fritz Rittner began his studies in law and economics at the University of Rostock in 1940. In 1949, after the war years and time spent as a Soviet prisoner of war, he continued his studies at the University of Bonn. Professor Rittner successfully completed his 1st state examination in 1951 and his 2nd state examination in 1956. He also received his Doctorate in 1956 with a paper entitled, “Ausschliesslichkeitsbedingungen”.
Erich Schanze
Born: 1942
Nationality: German
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Erich Schanze studied law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main and at the University of Edinburgh. He subsequently studied at Harvard University and received his LL.M in 1969. He received his Doctorate with a thesis about corporate law and wrote a Habilitation on international investment agreements under the direction of Hans-Joachim Mertens in Frankfurt.
Walter R. Schluep
Born: 1928
Died: 2006
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Walter Schluep was one of the most influential Swiss lawyers of the last decades. After finishing his legal studies at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), where he gained his Doctorate in 1956 in the field of corporate law, Professor Schluep engaged in complementary legal studies at the University of Munich as well as at Harvard Law School.
Anton K. Schnyder
Born: 1952
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Schnyder studied law at the University of Zurich from where he subsequently gained a PhD.
Leo Schürmann
Born: 1917
Died: 2002
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Leo Schürmann studied law at the University of Basel and obtained his Doctorate in 1939.
Walter A. Stoffel
Born: 1949
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Walter Stoffel studied jurisprudence at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and procured his law degree in 1973. From 1975 until 1976, he attended Yale Law School in Connecticut, USA, where he obtained a Master of Law. In 1979, he received a Ph.D. from Yale Law School. The focus of his doctoral dissertation was on the obligations of non-discrimination in international law for Switzerland versus other countries.
Thomas S. Ulen
Born: 1946
Nationality: American
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Thomas S. Ulen received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College, a Master of Arts from St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. He holds a Swanlund Chair, one of the highest endowed titles on the Urbana-Champaign campus and is director of the College’s Program in Law and Economics.
Hans-Ueli Vogt
Born: 1969 
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
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.
Roland von Büren
Born: 1944
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Prof. Dr. von Büren studied law at the University of Bern, where he gained his Doctorate in 1956 titled “Part-time and temporary work as new forms of service in the Swiss law”.
Rolf H. Weber, Editor and Author
Rolf H. Weber (born 1951) is a professor of civil, commercial and European law at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and a permanent visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has also been visiting professor at the University of Strasbourg (France), the University of Leuven (Belgium) and LUISS University in Rome (Italy). His main fields of research are Internet and information technology law, competition law, international business law, international financial law and international trade law.
Rudolf Wiethölter
Born: 1929
Nationality: German
Education and professional activities:
Professor (Emeritus) Dr. Rudolf Wiethölter started to study law at the University of Cologne in 1949 and passed the first State examination in 1952. Thereafter he studied at the College of Europe in Bruges. In 1955, he earned his Doctorate in jurisprudence by writing a dissertation with the title: “The unilateral conflict rules as the basis of private international law”. In 1956, he passed the second State examination and worked as an independent attorney-at-law.