Lawyer
Current activity
Professional focus
Areas of law
My career
- 1991 First State Exam, Universität of Cologne
- 1992-1993 Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of London
- 1996 Second State Exam
- 1997-2005 Senior Research Fellow, Law Centre for European and International Cooperation (R.I.Z.) Cologne
- 1998 Doctorate University of Cologne
- Since 1998 regular lectures for University of California, Davis und School of Arbitration, London
- 1999 Admission to the bar, Cologne
- 2002 - 2006 Founder and National Coordinator DIS 40
- Since 2003 Member of Board of Editors International Arbitration Law Review
- Since 2005 Member of Board of Editors IHR (International Commercial Law)
- Since 2005 National Correspondent for Germany to UNCITRAL for arbitration
- Since 2006 Visiting Reader School of Arbitration Centre for Commercial Law Studies, London
- Since 2006 Lectures at Bucerius Law School
- 2009 - 2013 Member of the Academic Council of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration of the Center for American and International Law, United States
- 2009 - 2012 Appointment by UNCITRAL as one of three experts to prepare the Digest on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration
- Since 2012 Director Willem C. Vis Arbitration Moot
- Since 2017 Director Bucerius Center for International Dispute Resolution
- Since 2019 Professor for International Dispute Resolution at Bucerius Law School
- Since 2022 Chairman of the Board of Directors of the German Arbitration Institute
Arbitration experience
Sole Arbitrator 10 proceedings (ICC, DISErGes, ad hoc) Chairman of the Tribunal in 25 proceedings (ICC, DIS, VIAC, ad-hoc) Co-Arbitrator in 61 proceedings (DIS, ICC, SCC, Swiss Rules, KCAB, ad-hoc) Emergency Arbitrator: 1 proceedings (SCC)
Publications
- Ergänzung und Anpassung von Verträgen durch Schiedsgerichte, Heymanns, 1998 Comparative International Commercial Arbitration (Co-Autor with Lew/Misterlis), Kluwer 2003
- Arbitrating Foreign Investment Disputes,(Co-editor with Horn) Country Report Germany, ICCA-Handbook on Commercial Arbitration, 2007
- More than 40 articles and chapters in books in the areas of arbitration, procedural law, banking law, conflict of laws and international company law and more than 50 case notes and summaries in German and English.
Languages
Memberships
- DIS
- DAJV
- German British Jurists Association