Ivo Schwander | Pestalozzi Attorneys at Law

Ivo Schwander

Of Counsel
Prof. em. Dr. iur. Dr. h.c.

Feldeggstrasse 4
8008 Zurich
Switzerland
T +41 44 217 92 56
ivo.schwander@pestalozzilaw.com

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Ivo Schwander is an Of Counsel to Pestalozzi and member of the Litigation & Arbitration group. He is a former Professor of Law at the University of St. Gallen. He advises 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.

Career

2012
  • Honorary doctorate (University of Zurich)
2008
  • Of Counsel to Pestalozzi, Zurich
1986
  • Professor at the University of St. Gallen (until 2012)
1985
  • Post-doctoral thesis (University of Fribourg)
1977
  • Attorney at law, Lachen SZ (until 1986)
1975
  • Doctoral thesis (University of Fribourg)
1971
  • Graduated (lic. iur., University of Fribourg)

Languages

German, French, English

Publications

Verjährung, Kommentar zu Art. 127-142 OR

Verjährung, Kommentar zu Art. 127-142 OR

By Ivo Schwander: in Jolanta Kren Kostkiewicz, Stephan Wolf, Marc Amstutz, Roland Fankhauser (Hrsg.), Kommentar zum Schweizerischen Obligationenrecht, Orell Füssli Kommentar (OFK), Zürich 2023

Revised Statute of Limitations comes into force on 1 January 2020

By Ivo Schwander, Andreas Lienhard, Florian Mohs: Legal Update, Zurich 2019
ZPO Kommentar Art. 20 – 27, 271 – 307

ZPO Kommentar Art. 20 – 27, 271 – 307

By Ivo Schwander: Gehri Myriam A./Kramer Michael (Hrsg.), ZPO Kommentar, Schweizerische Zivilprozessordnung, Zürich 2010
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