Thomas Schultz

Biography

Thomas Schultz is a Swiss National Science Foundation Research Professor in the International Law Department at the Graduate Institute. His primary area of interest is transnational business law. This includes issues in international law (mostly private international law, but also public international law to a certain extent), commercial law, and legal philosophy. He has also occasionally used methods and theories from legal sociology and law & economics. His four books deal with questions regarding the concept of transnational stateless law, international arbitration, the rule of law, and e-commerce and Internet law. Other publications span investment arbitration, the history and general theory of private international law, consumer protection, and a few other subjects. His current focus, and his main project at the Graduate Institute, is on the use, meaning, and potential of the principle of comity as a foundational cornerstone of private international law. His work has been awarded the Jubilee Prize of the Swiss Academy of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Research Interest

He has taught or conducted research at King’s College London, the University of Cambridge, the Catholic University of Lille, the University of Essex, the University of Geneva, the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and the Academy of the World Intellectual Property Organisation.