Ingeborg Schwenzer is a full Professor of Private Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Basel, Switzerland since 1989. Her work in comparative law covers a broad range of research areas including general law of obligations (contracts, tort law and unjust enrichment, sales law both domestic and international), commercial arbitration as well as family law. Aside from teaching and publishing extensively in these subjects Professor Schwenzer assumes numerous other functions and memberships. These inter alia include her membership in the International Academy of Comparative Law, of the Expert Group of the Commission on European Family Law, of the CISG Advisory Council, of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law. Ingeborg Schwenzer has studied at the Universities of Tübingen, Geneva and Freiburg im Breisgau. She holds a doctorate in law from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and an LL.M. degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Ingeborg Schwenzer has published extensively in all of her areas of research. In particular, she is the editor and main contributor of the Commentary on the Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG), the world’s leading work on the CISG and of its German language counterpart. She is furthermore the author of numerous other books and monographs, including among others a standard textbook on the general part of the Swiss Code of Obligations, a textbook on comparative law, and a case book on International Sales. In 2007 Ingeborg Schwenzer has started the Global Sales Law Project at the University of Basle with researchers from all over the world. Ingeborg Schwenzer is also active in all areas of legal practice. In particular, she acts as arbitrator, counsel and expert in international disputes.