Herbert Kronke#
| Membership Number: | 2786 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ipr.uni-heidelberg.de/cms/index.php?action=mitarbeiter&task=detail&id=45&menuid=18 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1993- Professor for Private Law, Commercial Law and Private International Law, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- 1998-2008 Secretary-General of UNIDROIT (International Institute for the Unification of Private Law)
- I989-1993 Professor for Private Law, Commercial Law and Foreign and International Private and Commercial Law, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Law of contracts
- Commercial law
- Company law and capital market law
- Conflicts of laws
- International civil procedure and arbitration
Honours and Awards
- Member of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law IACCL (2004-)
- Member of the Academic International de Droit Compare — International Academy of Comparative Law (2007-); Advisory Council of the Scuola Europea di Studi Avanzati della Universita di Napoli "Suor Orsola Benincasa" , Naples (Italy) (2002 - )
- Advisory Council of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private Law and Private International Law, Hamburg (Germany) (2004 — )
- Board of Trustees (Kuratorium), Xiamen Academy of International Law, Xiamen (P.R.C) (2005 - )
- 2006 doctor and professor honoris causa from the Law Faculty of the Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest (Hungary)
- 2009 Honorary Member of the Council appointed by the UNIDROIT Governing Council
- 2009 Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse awarded by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany
