ANTON K. SCHNYDER
CURRICULUM VITAE
- From 2018 Counsel of Roesle Frick & Partners Attorneys at Law
- 2003 – 2018 Full professor for private and commercial law, private international and civil procedure law and comparative law at the University of Zurich
- 1993 – 2003 Full professor for private law at the University of Basel
- 1987 – 1993 Corporate legal adviser to the general secretariat of the Zurich insurance group, from 1992 in the capacity of member of the management
- 1983 – 1990 Habilitation: Law of the Conflict in Economic matters – Special offers and Extra-Territorial Application of Economic Standards with Special Consideration of Market Law; Research work at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and Private International Law in Hamburg, Germany
- 1982 LL.M., University of California, Berkeley (USA)
- 1981 Dr. iur., University of Zurich (summa cum laude); Professor-Walther-Hug-Prize awarded for doctoral thesis
- 1979 – 1981 Academic assistant of professor Max Keller (University of Zurich)
- 1978 Lic. iur., University of Zurich (magna cum laude)
MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE
- Commercial and contract law
- Private international law and civil procedure
- Liability and insurance law
LANGUAGES
- German
- English
- French
MEMBERSHIPS
- Chairman of the Federal Commission of Experts for the Overall Revision of the Insurance Contract Act (until 2006)
- Chairman of the Federal Appeals Commission for the Supervision of Private Insurance (until 2007)
- Advisor to the Liechtenstein Government and the Financial Market Authority on insurance legislation and other financial market regulations
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law (2002-2012)
- Member of the international project groups “Restatement of European Insurance Contract Law” and “Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law” (until 2018) (Link: https://www.ius.uzh.ch/de/research/projects/peicl.html)
- 2015-2021 Substitute judge at the Supreme Court of the Principality of Liechtenstein
- Member of several domestic and foreign scientific associations