US Business Law Seminar

The seminar offers students the opportunity to deal with current US business law topics. Prof. Kellerhals will be joined by Prof. Lloyd Bonfield (New York Law School), who will lead the seminar. It will take place on October 9 and 12, 2026 in the premises of the Europa Institute at the University of Zurich at the following address: Bellerivestrasse 49, 8008 Zurich. Students are kindly asked to indicate three topic priorities from the following list and send the topic requests (first come first serve) to: michael.mayer@eiz.uzh.ch    

Topics: tbd

Once the topics have been allocated, the detailed seminar program, including the individual presentation slots, will be finalized and published. Each student must present on their topic for 20 minutes, followed by a 25-minute discussion. Deadline for the submission of Bachelors/Masters theses: October 31, 2026. Please send two printed versions of the thesis by mail to Europainstitut an der Universität Zürich, Bellerivestrasse 49, 8008 Zurich, and send a PDF version to michael.mayer@eiz.uzh.ch and lst.kellerhals@ius.uzh.ch.

The formal requirements are as follows:

Bachelor theses (6 ECTS credits): 20-25 pages (40,000-50,000 characters, excluding spaces, including footnotes), plus a cover page and table of contents. 

Master theses (12 ECTS credits): 30-40 pages (60,000-80,000 characters, excluding spaces, including footnotes), plus a cover page and table of contents. 

The paper must be formatted as follows: 

- Font: Times New Roman 

- Font size: Text 12pt, footnotes 10pt 

- Line spacing: 1.5 

- Margins: Top/bottom 2 cm, left/right 2.5 cm 

- Alignment: Justified with hyphenation

- Provide the thesis with a Declaration of Authorship

For details on the formal aspects see: Juristisches Arbeiten. Eine Anleitung für Studierende, Fortmoser/Ogorek/Schindler, Zürich 2023.