Spring semester 2023

Prof Dr Leander D. Loacker, MPhil

22 February 2023

The course "IPR 2" deals with (further) issues of transnational private and commercial law. The focus is on the Vienna Sales Convention (CISG); reference is also made to the PICC and the Incoterms®.

The first half of the semester is designed purely as a lecture; integrated exercises take place in the second half of the semester. In these, the knowledge previously acquired in the lectures is to be applied on the basis of concrete cases.

Text edition on international private law (including the corresponding international treaties) of your choice, e.g. Loacker, IPR/IZVR, Stämpfli Verlag.

Likewise, a textbook on the subject of the lecture, e.g. Schnyder, Internationales Privat- und Zivilverfahrensrecht, Schulthess Verlag.

Prof Dr Leander D. Loacker, MPhil

RA Markus Borle

Selected issues from the (practically particularly important) cross-sectional subject of "liability and insurance". In separate sections, questions of both substantive liability and insurance coverage of claims are discussed. In this way, the aim is to provide as holistic a perspective as possible - from the substantiation of claims to detailed questions of calculation and assessment to the ultimate payment of damages, namely by liability insurers.

Previous knowledge of general insurance law is an advantage but not essential.

Will be announced at the course.

Closely coordinated with the main IPR course at BLaw level, the MLaw level discusses issues of the Special Part. Specifically, the focus is on international personal, family and inheritance law. The knowledge gained there will be practised in particular on the basis of practical cases from the field.

Prior knowledge of IPR is an advantage, but not mandatory, as long as the AT of IPR is learned in self-study during the lecture. The textbook by Schnyder/Liatowitsch or the Nutshell by Grolimund/Schnyder are suitable for this purpose. Both are available in the library and in bookstores at any time.

Will be announced in the course.

Prof. Dr. Yesim M. Atamer,

Prof. Dr. Helmut Heiss, LL.M.,

Prof. Dr. Andreas Kellerhals, LL.M.,

Prof. Dr. Leander D. Loacker, M.Phil.

Tuesday, 10.15-12.00 pm

Although Switzerland is not formally a Member State of the European Union, European legislation is highly relevant for Swiss courts and jurisprudence, since EU Market Law is also implemented and applied in Switzerland in different contexts. The most important examples stem from the fields of EU Consumer Law, EU Competition Law, EU Company Law and EU Insurance Law.
Building on the four market freedoms and the efforts of legislative alignment within the EU Single Market, the course aims at presenting the main precepts of substantive private law created by the European Union and to make students aware of the peculiarities of its application in Member States as well as in Non-Member States such as Switzerland.

The detailed lecture contents as well as the lecture dates are available here (PDF, 202 KB).