Ingeborg Schwenzer is a Professor
Ordinaria für Privatrecht at the University
of Basel. After
completing her law studies in Tübingen, Geneva
and Freiburg, Professor Schwenzer obtained an LL.M. summa cum laude from the University of California,
Berkeley, and her PhD summa cum laude from the University of Freiburg.
Professor Schwenzer is editor of the
leading Schlechtriem/Schwenzer CISG commentaries in both German and English,
and member of the Advisory Council on the CISG. She has published widely in the
areas of comparative law, international commercial law, the law of obligations,
as well as family law, and is regularly called upon to act as counsel, expert witness and
arbitrator in these fields.