Professor Dr Klaus Peter Berger
LL.M
Honorary Lecturer
Member of CEPMLP Global Faculty and External Consultants team
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
- Arbitration Interactive, 2002; Handbook "Internationale Wirtschaftsschiedsgerichtsbarkeit", Berlin/New York 1992
- Handbook "International Economic Arbitration", Kluwer Law International 1993
- "Recht und Praxis des Schiedsverfahrens", 3rd. ed. Cologne 1999 (together with Raeschke-Kessler)
- 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
- 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.