Reinhard Bork

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Reinhard Bork is Professor of Law at the University of Hamburg, where he is also Director of the Seminar for Civil Procedural Law. He was Dean of the Law Faculty in 1993/1994 and Vice Dean 2005-2010. Reinhard Bork has been further appointed as Professor for International Insolvency Law at Radboud University in Nijmegen for a period of two years. He acted as Professor of Law at University of Bonn and has been a Robert S. Campbell Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College Oxford. Further, he has served as a judge at the Upper State Court (Court of Appeal) in Hamburg in the Commercial Law Division with jurisdiction including patents and intellectual property rights. Reinhard Bork studied law at the University of Münster/Westf., passing state examinations in 1980 and 1982. Law doctorate in 1984 and post-doctoral thesis (Habilitation) in 1988. He has been invited for talks and was Visiting Professor to various universities worldwide, among others National Taiwan University Taipei, Oxford University, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, Tsinghua University Beijing, and has published extensively on civil and civil procedural law (including arbitration), insolvency law and commercial law. He has broad experience as an arbitrator in national and international cases since 1994.