Thomas Kadner
biography
Thomas Kadner Graziano studied law at the Universities of Frankfurt and Geneva and comparative law and/or languages at the universities of Salamanca, Strasbourg, London and Trento (Italy). He holds a doctoral degree from Goethe-AV短视频 Frankfurt (1994), an LL.M degree from Harvard Law School (1994), and a professorial degree (Habilitation) from Humboldt-AV短视频 Berlin (2001). He is full-time professor of law at the AV短视频 (since 2001), acts as Director of the Programme on Transnational Law (CTL/CDT) and as Director of the Department of Private International Law.
He has worked as a faculty member of the DUKE-Geneva Institute in Transnational Law (2004, 2010) and has held visiting professorships, teaching comparative law at the Universities of Potsdam, Poitiers (2006), Florida (2006, 2007-08, 2008, 2010), Exeter (2007-08), Kaunas (VMU, 2009, 2013, 2014), Vilnius (MRU, 2014), Lausanne (2015), Renmin (People's) AV短视频 of China (Beijing and Suzhou, 2016, 2019), Notre Dame AV短视频 (USA, London Campus, 2020), and the AV短视频 of Basel (2023). From 2015-2024 he acted (on invitation) as European and Comparative Contract Law Professor at KU Leuven. He has taught classes on comparative law and methodology at the Universities of Johannesburg (2015), Luxemburg (2016, 2017), Leiden (2019), Saint-Etienne (2019), Lille (2022), Tartu (2023), and Lausanne (2024).
Thomas Kadner Graziano acted as a member of the Swiss delegation at the Hague Conference on Private International Law and as a member of the Working Group and Drafting Committee on Choice of Law in International Contracts at the Hague Conference. He is member of the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL, Vienna), member of the Council of the European Law Institute (ELI), Associate Member of the Association Internationale de droit compare (AIDC), and acts regularly for the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN). He is one of the founders of the European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL) and Chair of EAPIL’s Working Group on a European Private International Law Act. He has worked as expert on private international law and comparative law for EU institutions, foreign governments, and in international proceedings, e.g., before the UN Security Council’s Compensation Commission, the London High Court, US Federal Courts and in international proceedings in Central Europe and the Middle East.
His main fields of research include comparative contract and tort law, Swiss, European, and comparative Private International Law, and international litigation. He publishes in English, French and German.