The University Council appointed Corinne Zellweger-Gutknecht as Professor of Private Law and Business Law in 2020. She is also Titular Professor of Civil and Civil Procedure Law, Financial Market Law and Comparative Law at the University of Zurich.

Zellweger-Gutknecht teaches, researches and acts as an expert for public authorities, courts and private individuals in the fields of monetary, currency and central bank law as well as cross-cutting issues between private and financial market law. She is currently particularly interested in the influence of digitalization on state and private money, payment systems and the financial market as well as the recording of crypto assets in private, insolvency and currency law. Among other things, she is a member of an interdisciplinary research group that is preparing a study for TA Swiss on the subject of the digital franc.

She studied at the University of Bern, where she also worked as a research associate and obtained a doctorate in 2007 on the subject of warranties as risk responsibility. This was followed by periods as a postdoc at the University of Zurich and as a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, the House of Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Zellweger-Gutknecht was admitted to the bar in the Canton of Zurich and Switzerland in 2009. in 2014, she habilitated at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich. From 2014 to 2016, she was Professeure associée at the Center de droit bancaire et financier at the Faculté de droit of the Université de Genève. From 2017 to 2024, she was also a professor at the Kalaidos Law School in Zurich.

• Member of the Swiss Lawyers' Association
  • https:// www.juristenverein.ch/
• Co-editor of the Zeitschrift für die gesamte Privatrechtswissenschaft (ZfPW)
  • https://rsw.beck.de/zeitschriften/zfpw
• Member Digital Euro Association e.V.
  • https://home.digital-euro-association.de/en
• Member of the Steering Committee on Digital Assets and Private Law, on behalf of the international Institute for the Unification of Private Law ("UNIDROIT")
  • https://www.unidroit.org/work-in-progress/digital-assets-and-private-law/
• Advisory board member of the journal Recht der Zahlungsdienste (RdZ)
  • https://www.ruw.de/rdz-ueberuns/
• Researcher at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
  • https://cepr.org/
• Member at the UZH Blockchain Center
  • https://www.blockchain.uzh.ch/
• Member of the Advisory Board of Center for Innovative Finance, University of Basel
  • https://cif.unibas.ch/en/

• Financial market law
• Money and currency law
• Code of Obligations
• Company law

A current portrait picture of Prof. Dr. iur. Corinne Zellweger-Gutknecht is available under the following link.