Get to know Dorothee Schramm
Dorothee Schramm is an associate in our Dispute Resolution Group in Zurich. Her main areas of practice include domestic and international commercial arbitration and cross-border litigation, private international law, and Swiss and German contract and tort law.
Admitted to the bar in Switzerland in 2007, Dorothee Schramm graduated from the University of Göttingen, Germany, in 2001 (summa cum laude) and obtained a doctorate of laws from the University of Lucerne in 2004 (summa cum laude). Between 2001 and 2004, she worked as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Lucerne before joining our firm in Zurich as a trainee. From 2004 until 2008 she worked as a part-time lecturer at the University of Lucerne, whose team she coached for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna. She continues to teach arbitration and advocacy skills at the university. Having worked in our firm's International Arbitration Group in Geneva since 2007, Dorothee Schramm returned to our Zurich office in 2010.
Dorothee Schramm has published mainly in the areas of international arbitration and private international law, addressing issues of jurisdiction in international matters and the recognition and enforcement of foreign decisions. She is a member of several professional associations, including the Swiss Arbitration Association, the German Institution of Arbitration, the Austrian Arbitration Association, the Young Austrian Arbitration Practitioners, the ICDR Young & International, the International Bar Association, the Société Suisse de Droit International (SVIR), and ArbitralWomen.