Prof. Dr. Rolf Herber 

Born:	1929
Studies:	at the Universities of Cologne, Dr. jur. 1956
Positions Held:	Admitted to the profession in Hamburg since 1955, 1957/58 Judge at Bonn Regional Court, 1958-1984 Federal Ministry of Justice, Dept. for Commercial and Business Law, Assistant Director on leaving, since 1974 Honorary Professor at the University of Frankfurt, 1984-1995 Professor for Commercial Law and Head of the Institute for Maritime Law at the University of Hamburg, continued activity since then as Emeritus Professor, 1965-1984 Member and later Head of numerous German delegations at diplomatic commercial law conferences, 1978 President of the UN Conference in Hamburg to adopt the Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea (Hamburg-Rules), 1980 Vice-President of the UN Conference in Vienna to adopt the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods, 1992-1996 Chairman of the Expert Commission set up by the Federal Ministry of Justice to reform the law of transport, Arbitrator in numerous commercial law and shipping disputes
Publications:	Herber, Seehandelsrecht, Systematische Darstellung, Berlin 1998, Herber, Das neue Haftungsrecht der Schiffahrt, Kehl 1989, Herber/Czerwenka, Kommentar zum Internationalen Kaufrecht, Munich1992, Herber/Piper, Kommentar zum Internationalen Straßentransportrecht, Munich 1996, Co-author of Caemmerer/Schlechtriem, Kommentar zum Internationalen Kaufrecht, 1st edition 1989, 2nd edition 1995, English edition 1998, Herber, Seefrachtvertrag und Multimodalvertrag, 2. neubearb. Auflage 2000 Publisher of the TRANSPORTRECHT journal, Publisher of a series of publications on transport law and a series of publications on merchant shipping law, Co-publisher of several academic journals and series of publications in Germany and abroad, More than 100 papers in professional journals in all fields of commercial law, namely maritime law, transport law and the international law on the sale of goods
Memberships:	GMAA, German Society for Transport Law (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transportrecht) (Chairman), German Association for International Maritime Law (Deutscher Verein für Internationales Seerecht) (Member of the Executive Board), Comité Maritime International (Membre Titulaire, long-serving member of the Executive Committee), London Court of International Arbitration, German Institution of Arbitration, German-British Lawyer’s Association
Sphere of Activity:	Shipping and shipyard law, commercial law, company law