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Contact Email: K.P.Berger@dundee.ac.uk
Appointed as member of the global faculty at CEPMLP in May 2004.
Present Position:
Professor for Domestic and International Civil and Commercial Law, Comparative and Private International Law; Director, Institute for Banking Law and Center for Transnational Law (CENTRAL), University of Cologne, Germany; Operator of www.trans-lex.org, a web-based codification platform for transnational commercial law.
Education:
Universities of Cologne , Bielefeld and Virginia
Practice:
ICC-, Zurich Chamber of Commerce-, Vienna Chamber of Foreign Trade- and Ad Hoc- arbitrations as sole arbitrator, party-appointed arbitrator and chairman; Member, Arbitration Law Reform Commission at the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS) 1992-1996; panel of arbitrators: "China International Economic Trade Arbitration Commission" (CIETAC, Beijing, China); International Centre for Dispute Resolution (international division, American Arbitration Association, AAA); International Arbitral Tribunal, Austrian Economic Chamber, Vienna
PUBLICATIONS
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The Creeping Codification of the New Lex Mercatoria, 2nd ed. 2010
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Private Dispute Resolution in International Business, first edition 2006 (two books/DVD-ROM); second edition 2009
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Arbitration Interactive, 2002; Handbook "Internationale Wirtschaftsschiedsgerichtsbarkeit", Berlin/New York 1992
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Handbook "International Economic Arbitration", Kluwer Law International 1993
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"Recht und Praxis des Schiedsverfahrens", 3rd. ed. Cologne 1999 (together with Raeschke-Kessler)
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Vertragsstrafen im internationalen Wirtschaftsvertragsrecht (Penalty clauses in international contract law), Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft 1999, at 401-411; editor "The New German Arbitration Law", 1998
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more than 120 articles on domestic and international arbitration, contract law, trade law, banking and finance
Memberships etc.
Vice-President, German Institution of Arbitration (DIS)
Member, London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
Corresponding Member, ICC Institute for World Business
Co-Editor "Arbitration International", edited under the auspices of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
Regular Contributor and Country Correspondent, "Mealy's International Arbitration Report", USA
Teaching
International Commercial Arbitration: Practical Exercises (On-Campus)
To help students to understand the complex practical issues of commercial arbitration faced by arbitrators and lawyers and to equip them with the necessary skills on how to handle such issues.
