Portrait

Ivo Schwander is a Professor of Law at the University of St. Gallen since 1986 and a counsel to Pestalozzi in Zurich. He advises and represents clients with a particular focus on international and Swiss private law as well as international and Swiss civil procedure.

His teaching interests include conflicts of laws, international and Swiss civil procedure, Swiss private law, comparative law, hermeneutics, analytical methods in law and intertemporal conflicts of laws.

Ivo Schwander served as director of the Institute of Legal Studies and Legal Practice at the University of St. Gallen from 1995 to 2007. From 2001 to 2007, he chaired the Swiss Association for International Law. In 1993, Ivo Schwander established the legal journal “Aktuelle Juristische Praxis (AJP)” and, since then, holds the position of editor-in-chief. He is the author of numerous seminal publications in the areas of international and Swiss private law as well as international and Swiss civil procedure. Due to his extraordinary achievements, Ivo Schwander was awarded the “Grosser Walther Hug” Prize in 2001.

contact

Ivo Schwander
Counsel
Pestalozzi
Loewenstrasse 1, CH-8001 Zurich
Phone +41 44 217 91 11
ivo.schwander(at)pestalozzilaw.com
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Expertise

Arbitration, Bankruptcy, Civil Liability, Contracts, Dispute Resolution, Estate Planning, Private International Law / Conflict Of Laws

Languages

German, English, French

Admission

Switzerland 1977

Publications

Ausländische Personen in ausserrechtlichen Lebensgemeinschaften
Ausländische Personen und Privatrecht
Kommentierung der Artikel 30a, 284a, 284b SchKG
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