Walter A. Stoffel
Séminaire de droit economique et droit international privé
Université de Fribourg
Av. Beauregard 13
CH-1700 Fribourg
Switzerland
President of the Swiss Competition Commission (January 1st 2003 through June 30th 2010; Vice-President 1998 through 2002); Dean of the Faculty of Law (1997 through 2000). Scientific Director of the International Association of Legal Science (IALS), a UNESCO-affiliated, worldwide organization devoted to the promotion of the study of foreign laws and the use of the comparative method (1995 through 2001). Deputy Director at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne (1981-1987); Lawyer at the law firm Henrici, Reber & Wicki in Zurich (1977-1981).
Other Professional Activities: Service in various international institutions, lecturing at other Universities, counseling: Chief representative of Switzerland at the Competition Committee of the OECD as well as in other international organizations and institutions in the field of competition law; Participation as a reporter or speaker in national and international legal conferences and symposiums in the fields of competition and company law, of international commercial and procedural law as well as comparative law; Scientific organization of comparative and international law conferences in Europe (including North-Africa and the Middle East), North and South America, Australia; Frequent teaching and lecturing in other countries, particularly (as a visiting professor) in Canada, Australia, the United States, France and Italy, also (as a lecturer) in Israel, Spain, Germany, Denmark, China, Serbia, former Yugoslavia, Taiwan and Turkey; Foreign expert member in the Legal Scientific Committee of the Belgian National Research Foundation (Fonds national de recherche scientifque); Foreign legal expert for the German Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit on a new legislation on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in China; Counseling of corporations, lawyers and governmental agencies in the field of the law of corporations, of bankruptcy and of competition law; Member of the Committee of the Swiss Society of International Law, Member of the Editing Committee of the Swiss Review of Economic Law (SZW/RSDA; Expert for the Swiss National Science Foundation and in evaluation proceedings of other law schools; Membership in national and international professional and scientific associations.
The publications deal primarily with topics of the law of corporations and of antitrust law as well as of international private law and international civil procedure. They include manuals and commentaries, published in collaboration with colleagues from other Universities, monographs, editing or co-editing of books containing contributions of a variety of authors, the regular reporting on new cases and new scientific publications in the Swiss Review of Economic Law, as well as some 90 articles in legal periodicals: The manuals and commentaries include a presentation of the Law of the Stock Company (Grundriss des Aktienrechts, 3rd ed., Zurich 2011, a text-book co-authored with R. von Büren, University of Bern and R. Weber, University of Zurich), Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy (Voies d’exécution, 3rd ed., Berne 2015), a treatise co-autohored with I. Chabloz (in the second edition), a manual on the Law of Competition (Kartellrecht [Weber, Stoffel, Zäch, Ducrey, Tercier, Richli, Zurkinden, Dähler], Basel/Geneva/Münich 2000); The monographs are entitled Competition Law and Economic Activity of the Government (Wettbewerbsrecht und staatliche Wirtschaftstätigkeit, Fribourg 1994) and The Status of Aliens With Regard to the Treaties of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation (Die völkervertraglichen Gleichbehandlungsverpflichtungen der Schweiz gegenüber den Ausländern, Zurich 1979); Most of the articles, written in French or in German, or in English, deal with the Law of Corporations and the Law of Competition as well as International Law, particularly International Law of Contracts and Corporations; The articles in English include Swiss Competition Law: Where from and where to? (Mélanges Pierre Tercier, Genève, Zurich 2008, pp. 677-690); Mergers in Small Economies, (International Antitrust Law & Policy, Annual Proceedings of the Fordham Competition Law Institute 2007, pp. 319-334); “Extra-Territoriality” of Competition Law, (Liber Amicorum Luzius Wildhaber, Zurich 2007, pp. 1563-1577).