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The completely revised and newly designed textbook Law of Obligations General Part – "in a nuthsell" will be published in its 2nd edition in December 2025.

Swiss Law Clinic – A Video Project in the Field of Swiss Private Law

Party autonomy and freedom of contract are fundamental values of our private law system. However, does and should private law also pursue an overarching purpose.

The Center for Regulation and Contract Law (CRCL) examines how contract law can be used legitimately in regulation to uphold welfare goals such as resource optimization, sustainability, prohibition of discrimination, preventing over-indebtedness, and ensuring affordable housing. It employs (behavioral) economic research and assess the impact of legal norms on individual behavior through empirical legal research methods. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, the center provides research, education, and advisory support to regulators.

https://www.crcl.uzh.ch/en/Home.html

The ULF funding line open_innovation supports Prof. Alessia Dedual's teaching project “Visualising Legal Concepts” in collaboration with Prof. Yeşim Atamer and Prof. Ulrike Babusiaux with CHF 40,000.
As part of the project, a tool is being developed for students to review key legal terms from the Swiss Code of Obligations (CO [OR]) through a video-based glossary. Illustrator Sophie Hengartner (http://www.sophiehengartner.com) has been engaged to implement the project.
 

Alessia Dedual was awarded the Mercator Award 2019 for her dissertation. Her research was subsequently adapted into a film, available at the following link (in German):

 https://www.art-science.uzh.ch/de/filme/dedual.html