Klaus Peter Berger
Banking Law Institute,
Center for Transnational Law (CENTRAL)
University of Cologne
Albertus Magnus Platz
50923 Cologne
Germany
Professor of law, University of Muenster, director of Institute of International Business Law, 1996-2002; Visiting Attorney, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkim & Kahn, Washington, D.C. (1986)
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”; Member of the Board, Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce
ICC-, DIS-, Zurich Chamber of Commerce-, Austrian Federal Economic Chamber-, UNCITRAL- 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” IETAC, Beijing, China); International Centre for Dispute Resolution (international division, American Arbitration Association, AAA); International Arbitral Tribunal, Austrian Economic Chamber, Vienna
Private Dispute Resolution in International Business –Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration (two books plus DVD-ROM, 2006, 2nd ed 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; author of commentary on loan contracts, Münchener Kommentar zum BGB, 4th ed. 2005; more than hundred articles on domestic and international arbitration, contract law, trade law, banking and finance.