Brief Bio
- Visiting Professor (Liège [November 2002]; Pisa [in February 2003]; Glasgow [March 2003]; Clermont-Ferrand, [March 2007]; Rome II [April 2007]; Paris II [February 2008])
- Professor (University of Fribourg), Chair of Private Law and Roman Law, since 2001
- Habilitation (venia legendi, private law, civil law and comparative law), 2001 (“La compensation” – Set-off: 725 pages)
- Associate Professor (University of Fribourg), Chair of private law and Roman law, 2000
- Doctor of Law, University of Fribourg, 1998 (“Impossiblité et exorbitance: Etude des obstacles à l’exécution, art. 119 CO and 79 CISG; 425 pages)
- LL.M. (UC Berkeley), 1997
- Patent attorneys, 1994
- Licence (LL.B.) mention bilingual, Fribourg University 1991
Charges in programs and legal associations
- President of the European Association of Faculties of Law (ELFA), 2008-2009; member of the Board since 2005
- Professor correspondent scientifico Consiglio del Consorzio Interuniversitario Gerard Boulvert, 2004
- Chairman of the Professors of the University of Fribourg, since May 2007
- General Secretary of the International Association of Boalt Hall Alumni, 2003
- Scientific Director for the Masters in Rights of the Child (Fribourg University in collaboration with the Institute Kurt Bösch
Sion and the International Institute of children's rights) (2001 to 2006)
- Manager module "Law for the Executive Master on management in telecommunications," IIMT, University of Fribourg.
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Representative Publications
Books
1. La compensation (Set-off). Analyse historique et comparative des modes de compenser non conventionnels, Fribourg 2001 (AISUF 208), LXXX-736 p. (International Award of civil law "Gerard Boulvert" 2001) (reviewed in: IVRA 52 (2001, published in 2005), p. 339-352 [Paolo Garbarino, Alessandria]; ZSS-RA 121 (2004), 605-613 [Gunther Wesener, Graz]; SJZ / RSJ 100 (2004), p. 606-608 [Jean-Philippe Dunand, Neuchâtel]).
2. Impossibilité et exorbitance (Impracticability or frustration), étude analytique des obstacles à l'exécution des obligations en droit suisse (art. 119 CO et 79 CVIM), thèse, AISUF 168, Fribourg 1997, LX-456 p.
3. (With Jean-Philippe Dunand), Lexique de droit romain (Lexicon of Roman law), Zurich 2006, 179 p.
4. (with Marc Amstutz, Thomas Probst, Franz Werro), Droit privé européen: Directives choisies / Europäisches Privatrecht: Ausgewählte Richtlinien (European Private Law : selected directives), Berne/Athènes 2005, 761 p.
5. Pascal Pichonnaz (ed.), Exercises in family law, Zurich 2001 (263 pages) (book written with L. Brand, V. Carron, N. Kuonen, P. Reichenberg, C. von Wunschheim assistants at the University Freiburg), Zurich 2001.
Articles
1. Chapter 8: Set-off, in: S. Vogenauer/J. Kleinheisterkamp (ed.), Commentary of UNIDROIT Principles on international commercial contracts, OUP, Oxford 2008.
2. Vers un contrôle amélioré des conditions générales en droit suisse? (Standard terms), in: P. Gauch/F Werro/P. Pichonnaz (ed.), Mélanges en l'honneur de Pierre Tercier, Genève/Zurich/Bâle 2008, p. 377-396.
3. Rabais, escompte et compte pro rata (Price reductions), BR/DC 2007, p. 100-106.
4. La prescription de l'action récursoire en cas de solidarité imparfaite, Commentaire de l'ATF 133 III 6, (Period of limitation in case of right of recourse) BR/DC 2007, p. 48-52.
5. La prescription de l'action en dommages-intérêts (Period of limitations for claim for damages): Un besoin de réforme, in: F. Werro (ed.), Le temps dans la responsabilité civile, Colloque du droit de la responsabilité civile 2005, Berne 2007, p. 71-106.
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