Burkhard Hess is the founding director of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law. He teaches civil and procedural law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Luxembourg and was a guest professor in Beijing, Paris (Sorbonne) and Georgetown. For several years, he sat as a part-time judge at the Court of Appeal in Karlsruhe. He advises supranational and national lawmakers as well as litigants in cross-border dispute resolution.