Born: 1952
Nationality: Swiss
Education and professional activities:
Professor Dr. Schnyder studied law at the University of Zurich from where he subsequently gained a PhD.
From 1973 to 1981, he was employed as a research assistant. In 1982, he procured an LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley. He subsequently became a lecturer at the University of Zurich for one year and completed a research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law in Hamburg from 1984 to 1987. During this time, he wrote his habilitation thesis, “Law of the Conflict in Economic matters – Special offers and Extra-Territorial Application of Economic Standards with Special Consideration of Market Law”.
Prof. Schnyder also worked for six years as a legal consultant with the Zurich Versicherung AG; thereafter, he was appointed professor of private law at the University of Basel in 1993. In March 2003, he moved to the University of Zurich where he has since been a full Professor of Private and Business Law, International Private and Civil Procedure Law and Comparative Law. Since May 2008, he has also been a consultant at a Zurich law firm.
Parallel to his academic activities, Prof. Schnyder served as vice-president (1994 to 2004) and president (2004 to 2006) of the Federal Commission for the Supervision of Private Insurance. Finally, from the end of 2001 until April 2006, he was a member of the Board of Converium Holding AG.
List of publications:
Corporate Governance und Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht, in: E.A. Kramer/P.
Nobel/R. Waldburger (eds.), Festschrift für Peter Böckli, Zurich 2006, 565-583.
Alternative und kumulative Anknüpfung als Fragestellung des Schutzes von Gläubigern und Anteilseignern im Internationalen Gesellschaftsrecht, in: R. Zäch et al. (eds.), Individuum und Verband – Festgabe zum Schweizerischen Juristentag 2006, Zurich 2006, 377-393.
“Opting in” oder “Opting out”? – Anwendung der UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts in schiedsgerichtlichen Verfahren, in: I. Schwenzer/G. Hager (eds.), Festschrift für Peter Schlechtriem, Tübingen 2003, 395-411
(in collaboration with P. Grolimund).
Wirtschaftskollisionsrecht als Regelungsinstrument für eine internationalisierte
Wirtschaft, in: Zeitschrift für Schweizerisches Recht, NF 119 (2000) II 397-410.
Europäisches Gesellschaftsrecht und dessen “Nachvollzug” durch die Schweiz, in:
J. Basedow/K.J. Hopt/H. Kötz (eds.), Festschrift für Ulrich Drobnig, Tübingen
1998, 155-161.
Internationales Kapitalmarktrecht – Fragestellung, Regelungskonflikte, Koordination, in: Zeitschrift für Schweizerisches Recht NF 115 (1996) I 151-167.
Rechtsprechung zum internationalen Privat- und Wirtschaftsrecht 1991/92, in:
Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht 65 (1993) 185-202.
Europa und das internationale Gesellschaftsrecht der Schweiz, in: Schweizerische
Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht 65 (1993) 9-16.
Wirtschaftskollisionsrecht – Sonderanknüpfung und extraterritoriale Anwendung
wirtschaftsrechtlicher Normen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Marktrecht, Zurich 1990 (Habilitationsschrift).