About the person
Ulrich G. Schroeter is Professor of Private Law at the University of Basel. He teaches and researches on Swiss, German and European law of obligations (contract law), national and international commercial law, arbitration, international contract law as well as financial market law and regulation.
Current research projects concern questions of supply chain regulation, the impact of economic sanctions on cross-border trade relations, and questions of Swiss contract law. A consistent focus of his research is the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), on which he publishes several article-by-article commentaries, has written a textbook and operates the database CISG-online.org.
Ulrich Schroeter's research has been cited by courts worldwide including in Australia, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Switzerland and the United States of America as well as by Advocates General at the European Court of Justice.
Before moving to the University of Basel in 2017, Ulrich Schroeter held the Chair of Civil Law, International Corporate and Financial Market Law and European Business Law at the University of Mannheim (Germany) from 2012–2017. He studied law at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Germany) and the Université de Lausanne (Switzerland). After completing his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin, he obtained his post-doctoral habilitation at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg.
- Studies in law at the Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg (Germany) and at the Université de Lausanne (Switzerland)
- 1995–1998 Student assistant at the Institute for Foreign and International Private Law, Department I of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Schlechtriem, M.C.L.)
- 1998 First State Examination in Law in Freiburg
- 1998–1999 Thirteen-month trip around the world
- 2000–2002 Holder of a full research scholarship awarded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), Member of the Graduate College „European Private and Business Law“ at Humboldt University Berlin
- 2003 Receipt of the academic title „Doctor iuris“ with highest honors (summa cum laude) awarded by the Freie Universität Berlin based on the doctoral thesis UN-Kaufrecht und Europäisches Gemeinschaftsrecht – Verhältnis und Wechselwirkungen [UN Sales Law (CISG) and European Community Law – Relationship and Interaction]
- 2002–2004 Judicial traineeship (Rechtsreferendariat) at the Court of Appeal Berlin with positions in Berlin, at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer and in Hong Kong
- 2004 Second State Examination in Law in Berlin
- 2004 Admission to the Berlin bar
- 2004–2005 Research Assistant at the Institute for the Legal Profession of Humboldt University Berlin (Director: Professor Dr. Reinhard Singer) and Lecturer in Law at Humboldt University Berlin
- 2005–2011 Research Assistant, from 2006 onwards Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat) at the Institute for Foreign and International Private Law, Dept. II of Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (Director: Professor Dr. Hanno Merkt, LL.M.)
- Feb./March 2009 Visiting Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, Asian Institute of International Financial Law
- Sep./Oct. 2009 and May 2010 Visiting Scholar at New York University School of Law
- 2011 Habilitation by the Faculty of Law of Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
- Professorial thesis: Ratings – Bonitätsbeurteilungen durch Dritte im System des Finanzmarkt-, Gesellschafts- und Vertragsrechts. Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung [Ratings – Creditworthiness Assessments by Third Parties within the System of Financial Markets Law, Company Law and Contract Law. A Comparative Law Treatise]
- Venia legendi for Private Law, Commercial Law, Company Law, International Private Law and Comparative Law
- 2011 Acting Professor at the University of Münster (Germany) and at the University of Mannheim (Germany)
- 2011/2012 Received offers of
- the Chair for Private Law, Commercial and Business Law, in particular Company and Capital Markets Law at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (declined)
- the Chair for Private Law, International Corporate Law and European Business Law at the University of Mannheim (accepted)
- 2012–2017 Full Professor at the University of Mannheim (Germany)
- Holder of the Chair for Private Law, International Corporate and Financial Markets Law, European Business Law
- Director of the Institute for Corporate Law at the University of Mannheim (IURUM)
- Senior Member of the Mannheim Center for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI)
- since 2012 Honorary Fellow, Asian Institute of International Financial Law, University of Hong Kong
- since February 2017 Professor of Private Law at the University of Basel
- since 2017 National Correspondent for Switzerland at UNCITRAL (United Nations Commission for International Trade Law)
- Nov. 2019 Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law at New York University School of Law
- 2021 Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
- since 2022 Dean of Research of the Faculty of Law at the University of Basel
- Code of Obligations
- Comparative law
- International contract law (especially the 1980 UN Sales Convention (CISG))
- Financial market law
- International arbitration
- Unification of law and private international law
- Treaty law
- European Union law
- Commercial and company law
- Academic and professional associations and research institutions
- ASA (Swiss Arbitration Association), Member
- Asian Institute of International Financial Law of the University of Hong Kong, Honorary Fellow
- Basler Juristenverein, Member of the Board
- CISG Advisory Council (CISG-AC), Member
- German Society for International Law e.V., Member
- German Institution of Arbitration (DIS), Member
- Ernst von Caemmerer Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees
- European Law Institute, Fellow and member of the Council
- Free Academic Society Basel, Member
- Society for Comparative Law e.V., Member
- Swiss Association for International Law / Société suisse de droit international, Member
- United Nations Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), National CLOUT Rapporteur for Switzerland
- Association of Teachers of Civil Law, Member
- Scientific journals
- Annales de la Faculté de Droit, Faculty of Law at Istanbul University, Member of the Advisory Board
- Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration, member of the Board of Advisors
- Frédéric Eisemann Award for the best team in the Second Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot 1995 in visa (as spokesperson of the team of the University of Freiburg)
- Faculty Teaching Award 2010 of the Faculty of Law of the University of Freiburg
- University Prize 2011 of the Deutsches Aktieninstitut (1st prize in the category dissertations and habilitations)
- 2012 Foundation Award of the Capital Market Law Foundation for Germany as a financial center
- Sponsorship award 2013 of the Esche Schümann Commichau Foundation, Hamburg
Publications
Contributions by Professor Dr. iur. Ulrich G. Schroeter:
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