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Christoph BRUNNER |
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Python & Peter
Schweizerhof-Passage 7
CH-3001 Bern
Switzerland
Tel: +41.31.561.6121 (Office)
Fax: +41.31.561.6122 (Office)
cbrunner@pplex.ch
http://www.pplex.ch
Python & Peter
9 rue Massot
CH-1206 Geneva
Switzerland
Tel: +41.22.702.1515 (Office)
Fax: +41.22.702.1414 (Office)
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| Languages |
German (native); English, French (fluent); Italian, Spanish (knowledge) |
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| Nationality |
Switzerland |
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| Bar Admission |
Bern/Switzerland - 1994
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| Education |
University of Bern (Doctorate in law - 1996); University of California at Berkeley School of Law (LLM - 1997) |
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Academic
Position |
Adjunct Professor (Commercial Law, Comparative Law and Arbitration - University of Bern (2007-); Lecturer (Commercial Law and International Arbitration) - University of Bern (2006-) |
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Experience
as Arbitrator |
Chairman, Sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator in numerous international and domestic arbitration proceedings, ad hoc and under the Rules of the ICC, the Swiss Rules and the Rules the Geneva Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIG)) and the Vienna Rules |
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Experience
as Counsel |
Numerous international arbitration proceedings, ad hoc (including UNCITRAL) and under the Rules of the ICC, the Swiss Rules and Rules of the CCIG (mainly international sales, construction and engeneering, distribution and agency, joint ventures and industrial cooperation, partnerships, licensing, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, finance and banking, natural ressources, general contract law and private international law) |
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Publications
Relating to
Arbitration |
• Force Majeure and Hardship under General Contract Principles - Exemption for Non-performance in International Arbitration (Kluwer, 2009)
• UN-Kaufrecht – CISG, Kommentar zum Übereinkommen der Vereinten Nationen über Verträge über den internationalen Warenkauf von 1980, unter Berücksichtigung der Schnittstellen zum internen Schweizer Recht [Commentary on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), including relevant aspects of Swiss domestic law] (Stämpfli, 2004)
• "The Arbitrator’s Duty not to Give Decisions that Might Surprise the Parties," in L’éclectique juridique, Recueil d’articles en l’honneur de Jacques Python 221 (Python & Peter eds., 2011)
• "The Swiss Rules of International Arbitration: An Overview for Prospective Users," 2010 SchiedsVZ 243)
• "No surprises, please, Swiss Federal Supreme Court annuls CAS award," 14(1) LCIA News 38 (Nov. 2009)
• "Rechtsmittelverzicht in der inter¬nationalen Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit: eine Standortbestimmung nach dem Cañas-Urteil (BGE 133 III 235) [Waiver of the right to challenge an international arbitral award: the legal situation after the Cañas decision]," 2008 AJP 738
• "Interim Measures and Arbitration - Impact of the ILA Principles on Provisional and Protective Measures in International Litigation on the Draft Provisions on Interim Measures of Protection of the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration," in Intercontinental Cooperation Through Private International Law, Essays in Memory of Peter E. Nygh 469 (T. Einhorn & K. Siehr eds., 2004) (with G. Walter)
• "National Report on the Relationship Between Arbitration and Other Forms of Private and Public Forms of Justice – Switzerland" (Report prepared for the XII World Congress on Procedural Law, Mexico City, 21 - 26 September 2003) (with G. Walter)
• "Procedural Public Policy as a Ground for Setting Aside International Arbitral Awards – Comments on the Swiss Federal Supreme Court’s decision of April 28, 2000 (Egemetal v. Fuchs)," 2000 ASA Bull. 566 |
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