Professor Rolf H. Weber holds a chair for International Business Law at the University of Zurich since 1995 and has been a practising attorney admitted to the bar in Zurich and Switzerland since 1978. He is the founder and director of European Law Institute and the Center for Information and Communication Law at the University of Zurich (ZIK) and the publisher of the ZIK-book series since 1998, as well as honorary director of the European Institute in Zurich and publisher of the EIZ-book series since 1992. Furthermore, Rolf H. Weber is a member of the editorial board of several Swiss and International legal periodicals.