Jacques de Werra

Jacques de Werra is Professor of contract law and intellectual property (IP) law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva. He is the founding director of the Digital Law Center (www.digitallawcenter.ch).. Jacques de Werra has taught as visiting professor at leading universities including Harvard Law School (as Charles Hieken Visiting Professor in Patent Law for a course on international intellectual property transactions in the winter terms 2022 and 2024) and Stanford Law School (in 2017 and 2023), Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Nagoya University and City University of Hong Kong. He has practiced law (commercial law, IP law and arbitration) in Switzerland (Geneva and Zurich) at a major business law firm and has obtained an LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School and was admitted to the New York bar (in addition to his admission to the Swiss bar). Jacques de Werra acts as legal expert and consultant in IP law, technology & digital law, contract law, and sports law in many cases and he practices international arbitration (as arbitrator and consultant/legal expert). He is member of the Board of the Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement (CIDS, www.cids.ch) and of the Committee of the Geneva Master of International Dispute Settlement (MIDS, www.mids.ch). He has widely published in leading law journals (including the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology) and has authored / edited various books of reference including The Law and Practice of Trademark Transactions (co-edited with Irene Calboli) and the Research Handbook on IP Licensing (second edition just published in 2025, see https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/research-handbook-on-intellectual-property-licensing-9781839108730.html