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Arbitral Proceedings

Reinmar Wolff regularly sits as an arbitrator in domestic and international proceedings. He has conducted more than 50 arbitral proceedings in various areas of commercial and contract law. 

He has lectured on arbitration and other topics at the universities of Marburg, Heidelberg, Kaliningrad, Jena and the European Business School.  At the University of Marburg he has established and academically supervises the Vis Moot Court and ICC Mediation Competition teams.

He has published extensively in the fields of civil and commercial law, in particular company and construction law, as well as in procedural law, especially domestic and international arbitration.  His treatises on arbitration include primers on arbitration in Germany (2006 and 2016) and a commentary on the New York Convention (2012, second edition 2019) and an empirical study on Germany as an arbitration venue (forthcoming 2026).

He is Vice President of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS), a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Ciarb), a member of the ICC Task Force on Corruption and the Chairman of the German Red Cross Federal Arbitral Tribunal.  He has been appointed to the Working Group of the Federal Ministry of Justice for the Review of the German Arbitration Law.  He was a member of the Working Group for the Revision of the DIS Supplementary Rules for Corporate Law Disputes (DIS SRCoLD) and of the Working Group for the Drafting of the DIS Supplementary Rules for Third-Party Notices (DIS TPNR).