Isabelle Fellrath
(born 1970)
Degrees:
- Licence en droit, summa cum laude (Neuchâtel, 1993)
- Ph. D, University of Nottingham (Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research Scholarship and International Federation of University Women, Winifred Cullis Grant)
- LL.M, University of Nottingham (1994)
Admission to the Bar:
- Geneva Bar (2001)
Other positions held:
- Lecturer, Energy law ; University of Lausanne, School of law, Switzerland (2009-current)
- Visiting Lecturer, Domestic and international arbitration ; International investment law (seminars on dispute resolution) ; University of Glasgow, School of law, United Kingdom (2005-2008)
Areas of specialisations
Arbitration and commercial litigation, environmental law, energy law
Books
- Droit de l'énergie, Recueil de textes internationaux, européens et suisses
Schulthess, 2011, with Frank Spoorenberg, Pascal G. Favre - Cultural Property Disputes: The Role of Arbitration in Resolving Non Contractual Disputes
New York: Transnational Publishers/Brill, 2004 - A study of selected principles of international environmental law in the light of 'sustainable development'
University of Nottingham, ASIN B001AJP622., 1998
Articles
- Consent to Arbitrate: A Prerequisite to Arbitration
Journal of International Trade and Arbitration Law/ Uluslararası Ticaret ve Tahkim Hukuku Dergisi (UTTDER), February 2012, with Frank Spoorenberg, Download - Force Majeure and Hardship Clauses in Energy Supply Agreements
K. Makuch, R. Pereira (eds), Environmental and Energy Law, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Chapter 12, 2012, with Frank Spoorenberg - Restructuring the domestic electricity market and the progressive phasing out of nuclear energy in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster
EU Energy Law & Policy Yearbook, 2012 - Chronique de jurisprudence étrangère (Suisse)
Rev. arb, 2011, with Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Energy Law: Swiss Report
European Energy Journal, pp. 62-65, 2011, Download
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- Chronique de jurisprudence étrangère (Suisse)
Rev. arb., pp. 877-909, 2010, with Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Offsetting, sale/purchase losses and profits in case of breach of commercial agreement under Swiss law and the Vienna Convention on the International Sales of Goods
IPRax 4/2009, pp.357-362, 2009, with Frank Spoorenberg - Chronique de jurisprudence étrangère (Suisse)
Rev. arb., pp. 827-872, 2009, with Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Book review: D. Zillman et al. (eds.), Beyond the Carbon Economy Energy Law in Transition
(also in Oxford University Press, 2008) European Energy and Environmental Law Review, 2009 - Book review: M. Roggenkamp et al. (eds.), Energy Law in Europe: National, EU and International Regulation
(also in Oxford University Press, 2nd edn, 2008) European Energy and Environmental Law Review, 2009 - La procédure de gestion des listes de personnes affectées par les sanctions des Nations Unies devant le Tribunal fédéral suisse
Revue de droit administratif et fiscal 146-160, 2009, with T. Gazzini - Chronique de jurisprudence étrangère (Suisse)
Rev. arb., pp. 1-27, 2008, with Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Chronique de jurisprudence étrangère (Suisse)
Rev. arb., pp. 861-881, 2007, with Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Chronique de jurisprudence étrangère (Suisse)
Rev. arb., pp. 827-855, 2006, with Pierre-Yves Tschanz - The Swiss Supreme Court Decides: India v. Crédit Agricole Suisse,
X/4 Art Antiquity and Law, pp. 401-413, 2005 - Chronique de jurisprudence étrangère (Suisse)
Rev. arb., pp. 171-196, 2005, with Pierre-Yves Tschanz
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Case notes
- Supreme Court saves pathological arbitration clause
(also published with Mondaq, February 2012), ILO, March 2012, with Frank Spoorenberg, Download - Third parties and arbitration clauses in promissor/promissee contracts ?
ILO, November 2011, with Frank Spoorenberg, Download - Supreme Court confirms benchmarks on pre-arbitration conciliation duties
ILO, August 2011, with Frank Spoorenberg, Download - Parties' right to be heard on costs
ILO, July 2011, with Frank Spoorenberg, Download - Validity of the conventional waiver of judicial challenge against Swiss international arbitration awards
ILO, July 2011, with Frank Spoorenberg, Download
More
- Supreme Court rules on prior involvement of arbitrators
ILO, March 2011, with Frank Spoorenberg, Download - When an offer to arbitrate is binding on the offering party ?
(also published on Mondaq, November 3, 2010), ILO, November 2010, with Frank Spoorenberg, Download - International award annulled on grounds of procedural public policy infringement
(also published on Mondaq, July 15, 2010), ILO, July 2010, with Frank Spoorenberg, Download - No immediate review of arbitral interim measures
(also published on Mondaq, 27 May 2010), ILO, June 2010, with Frank Spoorenberg, Download - Supreme Court: arbitrators' broad discretion to construe contractual concepts
(also published on Mondaq, April 2010), ILO, April 2010, with Frank Spoorenberg, Download - Switzerland: Insolvency – Debt Restructuring Moratorium - "lis pendens" (1988 Lugano Convention)
Mondaq, March 2010, with Frank Spoorenberg - Arbitration agreements and piercing the corporate veil
(also published on Mondaq, on 27 October 2009), ILO, November 2009, with Frank Spoorenberg, Download - The uneasy relationship between arbitration and bankruptcy
(also published on Mondaq, 14 August 2009), ILO, July 2009, with Frank Spoorenberg, Download
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Speaking engagements
- Restructuring of the domestic electricity market and the progressive phasing out of nuclear energy in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster; A comparison between the EU and Switzerland
Annual EU Energy Law and Policy, 7th Annual Conference, Claeys & Casteels, Brussels, February 2012 - Why Does Arbitration Matter ? Some Practical Insights
Brown Bag Seminar, No Peace Without Justice, Brussels, January 2012 - Droit de la concurrence, Les restrictions illicites à la libre concurrence et les procédures à suivre – Défis pour la branche
Association des entreprises électriques suisses (VSE/AES), Lausanne, April 2010, with Pascal G. Favre, Jérôme Levrat