The Swiss Federal Tribunal confirms its long-standing jurisprudence, according to which the res judicata effect of arbitral awards and state court decisions is limited to their operative part.

Set-off situations are frequent in international arbitration and are treated differently in common law and civil law jurisdictions. The present article analyses set-off from a Swiss civil law perspective...

This article analyzes the admissibility of AI use in arbitral decision-making under Swiss law. For this purpose, it distinguishes between AI-Assisted Drafting, Supervised AI Arbitrators and Autonomous AI Arbitrators. To reconcile the admissibility concerns surrounding Autonomous AI Arbitrators, the authors propose a hybrid model featuring a human appellate arbitrator.

The Swiss Fed­er­al Tri­bunal con­sid­ers that the for­mal require­ments for arbi­tra­tion agree­ments of the NYC and the Swiss PILA are con­gru­ent.