ITA - The Institute for Transnational Arbitration 151d ago

This interview is a part of a series organized by the ITA Academic Council to record the evolution of modern international arbitration in the words of those who have led it. This interview was recorded in Vienna, Austria, on April 11, 2025 , during the Annual MAA International Commercial Law and Arbitration Conference . Prof. Ingeborg Schwenzer is Professor emerita of Private Law at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and former Dean of Swiss International Law School. Additionally, she is an adjunct professor at Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia, and has been an adjunct professor at City University, Hong Kong, and at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. She has published numerous books and more than 200 articles in the fields of law of obligations (contracts, tort law and unjust enrichment, sales law both domestic and international), commercial arbitration as well as family law. In particular, she is the co-editor and one of the main contributors of the world's leading Commentary on the Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) (5th edition, Oxford, OUP: 2022) and its German, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, and Polish counterparts. From 2011 to 2018 Ingeborg Schwenzer was the chair of the CISG Advisory Council. She is also active in all areas of legal practice. In particular, she regularly acts as arbitrator, counsel and legal expert in international disputes. Edgardo Muñoz is a Professor at Universidad Panamericana's School of Law in Mexico. Beyond his academic responsibilities, he has acted as an arbitrator and counsel in numerous arbitral proceedings across different jurisdictions and legal systems. Prof. Muñoz's academic journey includes law studies in Mexico (Lic. Iur. UIA) and France (DEUF, Lyon III), followed by two Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees—one from the University of Liverpool, UK, and another from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He also holds a Doctor of Laws (Ph.D.), summa cum laude, from Basel University, Switzerland. Dr. Muñoz has held positions as a Visiting Professor and Scholar at the University of Turin, Italy, Columbia University Law School in New York, McGill University School of Law, and the University of Montreal School of Law in Canada. He is a Member of VIS East Moot Foundation, the ICC World Commission on Arbitration and ADR, the General Council of Mexico’s Arbitration Center, the CISG Advisory Council, the ITA Academic Council, and serves as a Correspondent of UNIDROIT in Mexico. He also regularly publishes in the field of international business law, comparative law of obligations, international arbitration and sports law. He is admitted to practice law in California, the United States and Mexico.