After legal studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland, he passed the bar exam in 1993 and holds an LL.M. from Yale Law School. From 1993 - 2001 he worked as a Lecturer and Researcher at the Institute for Swiss and International Civil Procedure and Private International Law of the University of Bern. From fall 2000 on, he has been teaching international procedural law at the University of Bern. Since 1998, Fridolin has been a Bar Examiner and, since 2002, an assistant professor for civil procedure and bankruptcy law at the University of Bern. In 1995, he started to teach legal research on the Internet and has published a number of articles on legal