German Arbitration Institute (DIS): Member directory

Current activity

Arbitrator and Chairman of Chamber 3, Iran-United States Tribunal (IUSCT), The Hague, The Netherlands; Emeritus Professor of Law, Heidelberg University. As from 2019 and currently Herbert Kronke does not accept new appointments.

Professional focus

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Commercial contracts
Commodities trade and price revision
Shareholders’ agreements
Directors’ liability and executive pay
Post-M&A disputes
Privatisation of state-owned enterprises
Company law
Bank-payment undertakings and other financial services
Secured transactions
Competition
Construction
Energy
Telecommunication
Operation of satellites and other space activities
Toll production
Automotive parts supply
Product liability
Involved applicable laws of England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Turkey, United States (Delaware, New York).

Areas of law

My career

As from 2019 and currently Herbert Kronke does not accept new appointments.
Professor of Law and Director, Institute of Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws and International Business Law, Heidelberg (1993-2016)
Secretary General UNIDROIT, Rome (1998-2008)
Professor at the Universities of Bielefeld and Cologne since 1987
Visiting professor in Brazil, China, Greece, Italy, Canada, USA and at the Hague Academy of International Law
Dr. iur. habil. (post-doc) Trier (1987)
Dr. iur.(PhD), Munich (1979)
Assistant Max Planck Institute, Hamburg (1976-1980)
Second State Exam and bar exam, Hamburg (1980)
First State Exam Hamburg (1976)
Studies of law in Mainz, Hamburg and Edinburgh (UK)

Arbitration experience

Apart from current position and institutional arbitrations at IUSCT (see supra), 71 arbitrations (67 commercial arbitrations under ICC, Stockholm, Milan Chamber, AIA, DIS, HCCI Rules as well as ad hoc, e.g. under UNCITRAL Rules, and four investment arbitrations under Stockholm, UNCITRAL and ICSID Rules); mostly as chairman or sole arbitrator, occasionally party appointed.

Publications

Author of some 150 books, commentaries, articles for collected edition, articles on contract law, commercial law, company law, capital market law, financial services law, international private and procedural law and on arbitration.
Recent publications: ‘Handbuch Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht’, 2nd ed. 2017 (with Werner Melis and Hans Kuhn); ‘Transnational Commercial Law – Text, Cases, and Materials ‘, 2nd ed. Oxford 2015 (with Roy Goode and Ewan McKendrick); ‘Objective Rules’ of Transnational Commercial Law: The Example of Bank Payment Undertakings, in Eppur si muove: The Age of Uniform Law. Essays in Honour of M.J. Bonell (UNIDROIT ed.) vol. I, Rome 2016, 698; Anwaltsgeheimnis im internationalen Schiedsverfahren – Problemvielfalt und Lösungsvorschläge, in Festschrift für S. Elsing (Hrsg. W. Ebke/D. Olzen, O. Sandrock, 2015, 293.
Further information (http://www.ipr.uni-heidelberg.de/md/jura/ipr/personen/kronke/publikationen.pdf)

Languages