Prof. Dr. Pascal Pichonnaz 

Professor at the Fribourg University Law Faculty
Nationality: Switzerland
Course: AI Legal Framework; IA EU Act and Global Developments; Comparative Contract Law

Pascal Pichonnaz is currently a full professor (since 2000) for Swiss contract law, Roman law, as well as European consumer law and comparative contract law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Fribourg. He was Dean of the Faculty of Law from 2014–2017. He has been President of the Department of Private Law and vice-president and president of the IBL. He is one of the co-founders of the LL.M Programme at the Faculty of Law (MLCBP).

He has published several books and more than 150 articles on fundamental aspects of Swiss contract law (including AI and the Law), on Comparative Contract Law, on Set-off and Arbitration, as well as on Roman law, unfair competition and family law. Pichonnaz is also a member of several boards of legal periodicals.

He is a standing member of the Jury of the Premio internazionale di diritto romano Gérard Boulvert and is active as an international commercial arbitrator (ICC, Swiss Rules-SCAI, ad hoc), as well as an arbitrator in sport (CAS). He has been member of the board and then president in 2008–2009 of the European Law Faculties Association (ELFA). Since 2018, he has been a member of the Council of the European Law Institute, its vice-president from 2019-2021, and its president from 2021-2023 and 2023-2025. More on www.unifr.ch/ius/pichonnaz