Mareike Schmidt is a Research and Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Law, University of Basel, Switzerland. Her main areas of interest and research are comparative law, private international law, international commercial arbitration and the law of obligations. Besides being a native German speaker and fluent in English, she has good knowledge of French, Mandarin and Spanish.

Mareike studied law at the University of Würzburg, Humboldt-University of Berlin and Tsinghua University in Beijing. She worked at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Oliver Remien in Würzburg, the Institute of the Legal Profession in Berlin and the law firm of von Langsdorff, Schlegel und Weidenbach. Since 2005 she has coached teams for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot for Humboldt-University, Tsinghua University and Basel University. 

Mareike started working at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Schwenzer in October 2008 and is currently in charge of coordinating the 3rd Edition of the Schlechtriem/Schwenzer Commentary on the CISG