About the Author

Benjamin K. Leisinger was born in Nairobi, Kenya. After finishing school in Germany, he studied law at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He graduated in December 2003 and started working as an academic assistant to Professor Ingeborg Schwenzer. In 2005, he made an internship at the Secretariat of the ICC's International Court of Arbitration in Paris. In December 2006, he received his doctorate at the University of Basel. Since October 2006, he works as a law clerk at Homburger Rechtsanwälte in Zurich. He was coordinator of the symposium "Human Rights Values and International Business Transactions" (January 2007, Basel).