Prof Daniel Girsberger, LL.M.

Daniel Girsberger is a founding member of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lucerne (www.unilu.ch) and a tenured professor for Swiss and International Private, Business and Procedural, as well as Comparative Law. Before accepting the Lucerne assignment, he taught at the University of Zurich law school. He is also of counsel at Kaufmann Rüedi Ltd., a boutique Lucerne business law firm (www.krlaw.ch).

Daniel Girsberger completed his legal and doctoral studies at the University of Zurich, where he also taught as an adjunct professor. He has an LL. M. in Common Law Studies from Georgetown University Law School (Washington, D.C.), where he also spent time as a Visiting Scholar, as well as at the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law in Hamburg. He has taught as an adjunct at various universities and institutions abroad, such as in Brazil, Lithuania, the United States, South Africa, and the Academy for International Law in The Hague, and participated as a member of the Swiss delegation at the Hague Conference for Unification of International Private Law. He headed the Working Group on Choice of Law of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (2010-2015). He is also the Vice President of the Board of the Swiss Association for International Law and a member (and former head) of the editorial committee of the Swiss Review of International and European Law. Daniel Girsberger is the author of numerous publications focusing primarily on international private and international business law, international arbitration, and ADR. He has also frequently acted as chairman, as arbitrator and counsel in numerous international and domestic arbitration proceedings, both institutional and ad hoc, and has been an expert witness in a multitude of international litigation and arbitration proceedings. He is also a certified mediator, and has mediated several B2B disputes. Daniel Girsberger is a Member of the Arbitration Court of the Swiss Arbitration Centre (the former Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution) and its Advisory Council on Mediation.

For more information on Daniel Girsberger’s academic activities and publications, see https://www.unilu.ch/en/faculties/faculty-of-law/professorships/girsberger-daniel/staff/prof-dr-daniel-girsberger/