Bruno Zeller

Dr Bruno Zeller is the International Law Consultant to MBS.

Dr Zeller provides MBS with advice on conflict of laws/private international law, public international law, comparative law, and international alternative dispute resolution.

His qualifications are:

Diploma of Business Administration (Switzerland)
Bachelor of Commerce (University of Melbourne)
Diploma of Education (University of Melbourne)
Bachelor of Education (University of Melbourne)
Master of Laws (International Trade) (Deakin University)
PhD (University of Melbourne) - “The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, A Methodology for its Interpretation and Application.”

Dr Bruno Zeller is an Associate Professor for the Victoria Law School (VLS) in the College of Law & Justice.

Whilst holding this position, Bruno is also Adjunct Professor at Murdoch University (Perth) and a Visiting Professor at Stetson University Florida, Humboldt University Berlin and City University Hong Kong.

Bruno has lectured in Tax Law and Practice, Insolvency Law, International Trade Law and currently Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure. He has also given seminars to academic staff and students on International Sales Laws issues. He has conducted a seminar for international students on "International Trade Law and China" at the Faculty of Law, University of Geneva, Switzerland. As a result the abridged version was published in a seminar series, with extremely favourable reviews.

He is involved in mooting with a passion to train and prepare teams of students to participate in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, whereby Victoria University has participated.

Dr Zeller has been invited to participate as an arbitrator at the Vis International Moot in Vienna and Vis East Moot in Hong Kong and has been recognised as a significant contributor in the area of International Uniform laws, e-commerce and the methodology of interpretation of uniform international instruments.

He is actively involved in research in the areas of international private law and dispute resolution and has published extensively, with international recognition and quoted by leading academics as contributing to the stock of knowledge on international uniform sales laws. Most of his articles are comparative in nature where domestic principles of contract law are compared and analysed with international unified laws and restatements of contract law such as the UNIDROIT principles. His articles have been quoted in a submission to the Supreme Court of the United States.

He is the editor of the Australian site of the Autonomous Network of CISG Websites (view the site at www.business.vu.edu.au/cisg) requiring awareness of the current state of research and judicial decisions in Australia in relation to international private sales laws. In the Pace University, New York comparison of the Vienna Sales Convention with the UNIDROIT model laws as well as the European Principles of Contract Law, his contribution of four articles was published on their website. Dr Zeller is also the Australian contributor of case summaries on uniform international sales laws as well as international transport law for UNIDROIT in Rome. Due to his language skills, he is not restricted to reading English publications only.

Dr Zeller has presented many papers at conferences and written numerous articles.