Overview

Christoph Leuenberger

Attorney-at-Law
Prof. em. Dr. iur. Dr. h.c., LL.M.

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«I have done more than simply conduct legal proceedings; I have also taught them.»

Legal work

Christoph Leuenberger is advising clients and serves as arbitrator. For 30 years, he has been member of the Cantonal Court, in recent years as President of the Commercial Court of the Canton of St. Gallen. At the University of St. Gallen, he has been teaching civil procedural law for years and has authored numerous publications.

Education

1976

LL.M. University of Michigan Law School

1975

Doctorate from the University of Bern

1972

Admission to the bar in Bern

1965 – 1972

Legal studies at the University of Bern

Professional background

since 2016

Chairman of the arbitration committee for a motorway tunnel

2012 - 2019

Ombudsman of the University of St. Gallen

Since 2011

Arbitrator in various civil law disputes

Since 2011

Counsel at schochauer ag

2006

Dr. iur. h.c. University of Basel

2004 – 2011

Chairman of the Commercial Court of the Canton St. Gallen

1994 – 2017

Chairman of the Board of Examiners for Attorneys-at-law of the Canton of St. Gallen

1992 – 2006

Chair of the Management Board of the Stiftung für die Weiterbildung schweizerischer Richterinnen und Richter (Foundation for the Professional Development of Swiss Judges)

1986 – 2015

Lecturer, since 2001 honorary professor for Swiss civil procedure law at the University of St. Gallen

1981 – 2011

Judge at the Cantonal Court St. Gallen

1976 – 1981

Law clerk at the Swiss Federal Supreme Court

1972 – 1975

Law clerk at the Superior Court of the Canton of Bern

Publications

Commentary on the Swiss Code of Civil Procedure

Co-editors and authors: Thomas Sutter-Somm/Cordula Lötscher/Christoph Leuenberger/Benedikt Seiler (editors),
4th edition, Zurich 2025

Case law of the Federal Supreme Court on civil procedure law

In 2023: Journal of the Bern Lawyers’ Association (ZBJV) 2025, p. 61 ff.
In 2022: Journal of the Bern Lawyers’ Association (ZBJV) 2024, p. 71 ff.
In 2021: Journal of the Bern Lawyers’ Association (ZBJV) 2023, p. 112 ff.
In 2020: Journal of the Bern Lawyers’ Association (ZBJV) 2022, p. 87 ff.
In 2019: Journal of the Bern Lawyers’ Association (ZBJV) 2021, p. 159 ff.
In 2018: Journal of the Bern Lawyers’ Association (ZBJV) 2020, p. 82 ff.
In 2017: Journal of the Bern Lawyers’ Association (ZBJV) 2019, p. 165 ff.
In 2016: Journal of the Bern Lawyers’ Association (ZBJV) 2018, p. 334 ff.
In 2015: Journal of the Bern Lawyers’ Association (ZBJV) 2017, p. 237 ff.
In 2014: Journal of the Bern Lawyers’ Association (ZBJV) 2016, p. 514 ff.
In 2013: Journal of the Bern Lawyers’ Association (ZBJV) 2015, p. 242 ff.
In 2012: Journal of the Bern Lawyers’ Association (ZBJV) 2014, p. 1 ff.
In 2011: Journal of the Bern Lawyers’ Association (ZBJV) 2013, p. 234 ff.

Swiss civil procedure law

Christoph Leuenberger/Beatrice Uffer-Tobler,
2nd edition, Berne 2016

The provisions on the ordinary procedures apply accordingly to all other procedures, provided that the law does not provide for otherwise (Art. 219 of the Code of Civil Procedure)

Publication in honour of Thomas Sutter-Somm, Basel, 2016, p. 379 ff.

The final decision according to Art. 236 and Art. 308 of the Code of Civil Procedure: to what extent is the interpretation in agreement with the FSCA?

Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Zivilprozessrecht (Swiss Journal for Civil Procedure Law) (SZZP) 2015, p. 89 ff.

The right to report facts and evidence twice without limitation: a principle and its application

Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Zivilprozessrecht (Swiss Journal for Civil Procedure Law) (SZZP) 2014, p. 81 ff.

Lis pendens for lack of jurisdiction and improper type of proceeding
(Art. 63 of the Code of Civil Procedure)

SSchweizerische Zeitschrift für Zivilprozessrecht (Swiss Journal for Civil Procedure Law) (SZZP) 2013, p. 169 ff.

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