Publications and Speaking Engagements

Select­ed publications:

• Autonomy of Arbitration Agreements and Capacity of Judgement, in: ASA Bull. 1/2024, p. 45 et seqq. (Daniela Frenkel; PDF)
• Commentary on the Swiss Private International Law Act (i.e. Art. 1–10, 13–32 PILA), in: Furrer, Girsberger, Rodriguez (Eds.), Handkommentar zum Schweizer Privatrecht, Internationales Privatrecht, 4th edition, Zurich 2024 (Axel Buhr, Art. 25–32 PILA with Dorothee Schramm)
• No setting aside without reasoning, in: dRSK, 10.07.2023 (Axel Buhr)
• Commentary on Art. 178 PILA (Simon Gabriel and Johannes Landbrecht), Art 182 PILA (Simon Gabriel and Andreas Schregenberger) and Art. 183–185a PILA (Axel Buhr), in: Aebi-Müller, Müller (eds.), Bernese Commentary on Swiss Civil Law, International Arbitration: Art. 176–194 PILA as well as Art. 7 und 196 PILA, Berne 2022 (Coordination: Simon Gabriel and Marco Stacher)
• Swiss Statutes of Limitation, RIW 2022, p. 644 et seqq. (Johannes Landbrecht, Axel Buhr; PDF)
• Arbitrators' independence after deliberations no longer required?, in: dRSK, 22.06.2022 (Axel Buhr)
• Swiss International Arbitration Law – The 2021 Reform in Context, ICC Bull. 1/2022, p. 49 et seqq. (Simon Gabriel, Johannes Landbrecht; PDF)
• Application for “Revision” of an Arbitral Award Rejected, in: dRSK, 05.01.2022 (Simon Gabriel)
• Global Rejection of “Fishing Expedition” Upheld, in: dRSK, 27.05.2021 (Simon Gabriel)
• No Extension of Arbitration Agreement to Subcontractor, in: dRSK, 07.01.2021 (Simon Gabriel)
• The Reform of Swiss International Arbitration Law has entered Home Stretch – an Update, Expert Guides – Rising Stars 2020, p. 18 et seqq. (Johannes Landbrecht, Axel Buhr; PDF)
• How to avoid the res judicata-“paradox”, in: dRSK, 22.06.2020 (Axel Buhr)
• The new Swiss approach to the right to be heard – balancing challenging fairness and efficiency concerns, in: Indian Journal of Arbitration Law (IJAL), Volume 8, Issue 2, 2020, p. 48 et seqq. (Simon Gabriel, Andreas Schregenberger; PDF)
• Congruence of the NYC and Swiss lex arbitri regarding extension of arbitral jurisdiction to non-signatories, in: ASA Bull. 4/2019, p. 883 et seqq. (Simon Gabriel; PDF)
• The Right to Be Heard – a Constitutional Guarantee of No Formal Nature, in: dRSK, 09.05.2019 (Axel Buhr)
• 59 Setting Aside Arguments Rejected as Inadmissible, in: dRSK, 14.01.2019 (Simon Gabriel)
• Award granting unlawful success fees upheld, in: dRSK, 27.09.2018 (Axel Buhr)
• How to Set Aside a “Procedural Order” on Arbitrators’ Impartiality?, in: dRSK, 23.05.2018 (Simon Gabriel)
• Of Confidentiality Orders And Confidentiality Offers – A Swiss Perspective On The Effect And Effectiveness Of Measures To Protect Confidentiality, in: Klausegger, Klein, Kremslehner u.a. (Eds.), Austrian Yearbook On International Arbitration 2018, Wien 2018, p. 53 et seqq. (Simon Gabriel, Johannes Landbrecht; PDF)
• Iura Novit Arbiter: Application of the Law on the Tribunal’s Own Motion, in: dRSK, 13.02.2018 (Simon Gabriel, Axel Buhr)
• Conflict Management in International Law, Bern 2017 (Eds.: Johannes Landbrecht und Simon Gabriel)
• Interim awards on preliminary issues of jurisdiction are not subject to appeal, in: dRSK, 08.09.2017 (Axel Buhr)
• Missed Deadline, in: dRSK, 03.04.2017 (Simon Gabriel)
• Set-off Defenses in Arbitration – Conclusions from a Swiss Civil Law Perspective, in: Indian Journal of Arbitration Law (IJAL), Volume 5, Issue 2, 2017, p. 55 et seqq. (Simon Gabriel, Katalin Meier)
• Determinations Contrary to the Record vs. Arbitrary Assessment of Evidence, in: dRSK, 09.09.2016 (Simon Gabriel)
• Fundamental Rights vs. Procedural Agreements, in: dRSK, 21.07.2016 (Simon Gabriel)
• Arbitration vs. prior expert determination, in: dRSK, 20.04.2016 (Simon Gabriel)
• Commentary on the Swiss Private International Law Act (i.e. Art. 1–24 and 129–142 PILA), in: Furrer, Girsberger, Müller-Chen (Eds.), Handkommentar zum Schweizer Privatrecht, Internationales Privatrecht, 3. Auflage, Zürich 2016 (Axel Buhr, Simon Gabriel)
• Not decided or not heard?, in: dRSK, 16.03.2016 (Simon Gabriel)
• Arbitral award extra petita because of US-Dollars instead of Euros?, in: dRSK, 21.10.2015 (Simon Gabriel)
• Onus to cross-examine witnesses in arbitration proceedings?, in: dRSK, 26.06.2015 (Simon Gabriel)
• Commentary on arbitral procedure and challenge of arbitrators (i.e. art. 367–371 and 373 ZPO), in: Hausheer & Walter (Eds.), Berner Kommentar zur Schweizerischen Zivilprozessordnung, Band III, Bern 2014 (Simon Gabriel, Axel Buhr)
• Strict onus to object in situations of arbitrator challenges, in: dRSK, 17.07.2013 (Simon Gabriel)
• Strict Requirements for Oral Objections in Arbitration Hearings, in: dRSK, 19.03.2013 (Axel Buhr)
• Damages for Breach of Arbitration Agreements, in: Arroyo (Ed.), Arbitration in Switzerland The Practitioner’s Guide, Kluwer 2013, p. 1473 et seqq. (Simon Gabriel)
• Investment Planning via Switzerland, in: ASA Bull. 1 / 2013, p. 11 et seqq. (Simon Gabriel; PDF)
• Dealing With “Challenged Documents”, in: ASA Bull. 4 / 2011, p. 823 et seqq. (Simon Gabriel; PDF)
• Formvorbehalt für Vertragsänderungen, SJZ 106 (2010), p. 533 et seqq. (Simon Gabriel)
• Vorvertragliche Schiedszuständigkeit, in: ASA Bull. 2 / 2009, p. 236 et seqq. (Simon Gabriel)

Gabriel Arbi­tra­tion Conferences:

• 2025: Priv­i­lege (PDF)
• 2024: Tak­ing of Evi­dence – Scope and Lim­its (PDF)
• 2023: Front-Load­ing and Cut-Off Date (PDF)
• 2022: Iura Novit Arbiter: Too good to be true? (PDF)
• 2021: Prayers for Relief in Inter­na­tion­al Arbi­tra­tion Pro­ceed­ings: Any­thing Goes? (PDF)
• 2020: Dis­rup­tion of Sup­ply Chains: How to Decide all Claims in One Go? (PDF)
• 2019: ​“Ear­ly Deter­mi­na­tion” – Use­ful tool or dan­ger­ous gim­mick? (PDF)
• 2018: Secu­ri­ty for Costs in Arbi­tra­tion Pro­ceed­ings – Legal Sit­u­a­tion in Switzer­land and Inter­na­tion­al Devel­op­ments (PDF)
• 2017: Inter­na­tion­al Con­flict Man­age­ment: Pro­gram (PDF) and Fact Sheet (PDF)

Select­ed speak­ing engagements:

• Arbi­tra­tion and Insol­ven­cy, Vier­län­derkon­ferenz Vaduz/​Schaan 2024 (Daniela Frenkel)
• Arbi­tra­tor Appoint­ments for Break­fast. An open dis­cus­sion on the ICC arbi­tra­tor appoint­ment prac­tice with cof­fee and crois­sants, Gene­va 2024 (Simon Gabriel)
• Cryp­to Invest­ment Dis­putes: An ounce of pre­ven­tion is worth a pound of cure, Zurich 2023 (Axel Buhr; co-organization)
• Access to Jus­tice in Times of War, 100 Years ICC Switzer­land, Zurich 2022 (Simon Gabriel)
• What is the Advan­tage of Par­ty-appoint­ed Arbi­tra­tors?, ASA Local Group, Berne 2022 (Simon Gabriel)
• Spe­cial Fea­tures of the Tak­ing of Evi­dence in Inter­na­tion­al Arbi­tra­tion, Uni­ver­si­ty Inns­bruck 2021 (Simon Gabriel with Klaus Sachs and Gerold Zeiler)
• Ear­ly Res­o­lu­tion of Dis­putes, Ham­burg Arbi­tra­tion Day 2021 (Simon Gabriel)
• Arbi­tra­tion and Insol­ven­cy, Europa Insti­tut Zurich, Zurich 2019 (Simon Gabriel)
• Prague Rules, ASA Local Group, Basel 2019 (Simon Gabriel)
• SCAI Inno­va­tion Con­fer­ence on ​“All Eyes on the Arbi­tra­tor”, Swiss Cham­bers Arbi­tra­tion Insti­tu­tion, Zurich 2019 (Simon Gabriel, co-orga­niz­er and speaker)
• SCAI Inno­va­tion Con­fer­ence on ​“Arbi­trat­ing the Future”, Swiss Cham­bers Arbi­tra­tion Insti­tu­tion, Zurich 2018 (Simon Gabriel, co-orga­niz­er and speaker)
• Chang­ing Trans­paren­cy, Vien­na Arbi­tra­tion Days, 2017 (Simon Gabriel)
• Con­fi­den­tial­i­ty in Arbi­tra­tion, Dreilän­derkon­ferenz Schaan, 2016 (Simon Gabriel)
• Delib­er­a­tion: Good prac­tices, rea­son­ing, dis­sent­ing opin­ions, ICC YAF Euro­pean Region­al Con­fer­ence, 2016 (Simon Gabriel)
• Iura novit arbiter, Ham­burg Arbi­tra­tion Cir­cle (HAC), 2016 (Simon Gabriel)
• Pre-tri­al nego­ti­a­tions, medi­a­tions and expert deter­mi­na­tions, Soci­ety of Swiss In-house Coun­sel (VSUJ), 2015 (Simon Gabriel)
• Third-par­ty finance, Europa Insti­tut Zurich, 2015 (Simon Gabriel)
• Third Par­ty Join­der, YAAP Round­table Vien­na 2014 (Simon Gabriel)
• Vis­it­ing the Insti­tu­tions: Swiss Cham­bers’ Arbi­tra­tion Insti­tu­tion, ASA – below 40 Zurich 2013 (Simon Gabriel; moderator)
• Expe­dit­ed Pro­ceed­ings under Swiss Rules, Arbi­tra­tion and Busi­ness Sem­i­nar in War­saw 2013 (Simon Gabriel)
• Englisch vor Bun­des­gericht (Eng­lish in pro­ceed­ings before the Swiss Fed­er­al Tri­bunal), ASA Sec­tion Zurich 2013 (Simon Gabriel; panelist)
• Kon­se­quen­zen der Vorschussver­weigerung (Con­se­quences of Fail­ure to Pay Advances on Costs), ASA Sec­tion Zurich 2011 (Simon Gabriel)
• Zielführende Stre­it­bei­le­gung (Goal-ori­ent­ed Dis­pute Res­o­lu­tion), Rotary Club Zürich 2010 (Simon Gabriel)