Prof. Dr. Reinhard Bork studied law at the University of Münster/Westf. Since 1990 he has been Professor of Law at the University of Hamburg, where he is Director of the Seminar for Civil Procedural Law. He was Dean of the Law Faculty in 1993/1994, Vice Dean from 2005 to 2010 and was the Robert S. Campbell Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College Oxford in 2010/2011. 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 (1992-1996) and he has published extensively on Civil and Civil Procedural Law (including Arbitration), Insolvency Law, Commercial Law, and Media Law.