The project, which received the Swiss National ORD Prize, is led by Daniel Girsberger, Professor of Swiss and International Private, Commercial and Procedural, as well as Comparative Private Law, and Senior Researcher Agatha Brandão. The “Choice of Law Dataverse” brings together private international law and digitalisation to create a freely accessible, systematically structured online data archive on choice of law. National regulations, court decisions and arbitration awards from more than 100 legal systems are collected, processed and made available in English.

The platform, developed as part of a research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, is designed to enable students, researchers, lawyers and judges to analyse issues of private international law more efficiently. Individual data collections will no longer be necessary in future, as relevant information will be directly accessible via the platform. At the same time, new research data can be immediately applied in practice.

The award recognises a project that makes the complex field of private international law accessible in a sustainable and transparent way through open, digital research data. The prize is being awarded for the third time; a second award went to a scientific project based at ETH Zurich. The Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences build bridges between science, society, business and politics and operate on the basis of a mandate from the Federal Council.

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