Ingeborg Schwenzer (born 25 October 1951 in Stuttgart) is a German jurist and professor for private and comparative law at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
In 1975, Schwenzer passed the Erste juristische Staatsprüfung (First State Exam in Law) at the University of Freiburg.
From 1977 to 1981, Schwenzer was research assistant to Peter Schlechtriem at the Institute for Comparative and International Private Law of the University of Freiburg.
in 1978 for her doctoral thesis entitled Die Freizeichnung des Verkäufers von der Sachmängelhaftung im amerikanischen und deutschen Recht (The seller’s limitation of liability for defective goods under American and German law).
From 1980 to 1987, Schwenzer was assistant professor and lecturer for private and commercial law at the Verwaltungs- und Wirtschaftsakademie (Academy of Administration and Commerce) in Freiburg i. Br.
The centerpiece of the project is the handbook Global Sales and Contract Law (GSCL),[1] which Schwenzer authored together with Pascal Hachem and Christopher Kee.
Particularly remarkable about the book is the approach of research in so far as the comparison is completely based on the functional comparative method rather than on the basis of separate country reports.
The authors based their work on the doctoral theses of Mohamed Hafez (Arabia and the Middle East), Natia Lapiashvili (Eastern Europe and Central Asia), Edgardo Muñoz (Latin America), Jean Alain Penda Matipe (Central and Southern Africa), and Sophia Juan Yang (Southeast Asia).
Until her retirement in 2017 Schwenzer has run the only comprehensive database[5] in the German-speaking countries which contains all relevant case law on the CISG.
A comprehensive comparison of family law in European, Anglo-American, and Oceanian jurisdictions served as the basis for this model code.