Thomas Schultz is a Senior Lecturer (Maître d'enseignement et de recherche) at the Law Faculty of Geneva University, and is in part detached to the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. His work revolves around transnational law relating to economic and business matters (not family law) and is characterized by an approach often based on legal philosophy, with varying degrees of abstraction. Within this broad field, he focuses on international dispute settlement, more specifically on fundamental interdisciplinary trends and ideas in international arbitration; non-state law, legal pluralism and the relationship between territory and the existence of a legal order; the sustainement of the rule of law outside of state law; the concept, effectiveness and consequences of transnational law, and where it is to be found; the regulation of the Internet; and the relationship between private and public international law.
He is the Executive Director of the Geneva Master in International Dispute Settlement, of Geneva University Law Faculty and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and is the founder and Managing Editor of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (Oxford University Press). Thomas also is in charge of the doctoral school in international dispute settlement of Geneva Law Faculty. He is a member of the editorial board of the Revue du droit des technologies de l'information.
Thomas has authored the books Information Technology and Arbitration (Kluwer 2006), Réguler le commerce électronique par la résolution des litiges en ligne (Bruylant 2005) and, with Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, Online Dispute Resolution (Kluwer 2004).
His law review articles have appeared in journals that include the European Journal of International Law, the Yearbook of Private International Law, and the Yale Journal of Law & Information Technology. His work is used as reading assignments at, for instance, Stanford Law School, Cambridge University and the Collège de France. Some of his work on transnational law, the relationship between private and public international law, and the regulation of the Internet received the Prix Jubilé 2010 of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, which rewards the best article of the year in the humanities and the social sciences by a young scholar in Switzerland.
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