Training/Professional experience:

• Studies at the University of Heidelberg, Hamburg, Bonn, Cologne
  and training at law courts in Düsseldorf
• Studies and training in Boston/USA, Geneva/Switzerland, The Hague/Netherlands, Paris/France
  
• Till 1971 partner in law firm in Düsseldorf
  
• Till 2001 Holder of the Chair for International Business Law and Director of the Institute of Air and Space Law at Cologne University
  

Other functions:

President, International Law Association (ILA).
President, German Association for International Law. 
Chairman of the Board, German Institution of Arbitration (DIS).
Practice as parties' counsel, as mediator, and as arbitrator and  president of arbitration tribunal in many national and interna­tional arbitrations of the ICC, ICSID, NAFTA, AAA, UNCITRAL and others. President of London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) 1993-1997; Panel Chairman of the United Nations Compensation Commis­sion 1994-1996. President of Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, The Hague, 1984-1988.

Panel of Legal Experts, Int. Telecom. Satellite Org.(ITSO);Board of Directors, International Institute of Space Law; Chairman, both German Commissions on Air and Space Law 1977-2001; Chairman, Working Group Air Law of International Chamber of Commerce 1979-2001;Chairman, Space Law Committee, International Law Association 1985-2001;  Board Member, European Centre for Space Law (ECSL) 1980-2001; Chairman, Intelsat, Panel of Legal Experts 1995-1999; Chairman, Council, German National Space Agency (DARA) 1990-1994.

Member of further national and inter­national legal and commercial institutions.

Areas of specialization:
National and international business law, especially: contract law, company law and consortial agreements; contracts for plant construction and infrastructure; mergers and acquisitions; foreign investment; contracts between States and private enterprises; international law; air and space law; international dispute settlement

Arbitral experience:
As arbitrator:
Practice as mediator and as parties’ counsel; as arbitrator and as president of arbitral tribunals in many national and international arbitration proceedings of the ICC, LCIA, ICSID, NAFTA, UNCITRAL and others; Chairman of German Institution of Arbitration (DIS); President of London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) 1993 to 1997; Panel Chairman of United Nations Compensation Commission 1995 to 1997; President of Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, The Hague 1984 to 1988
 
As counsel:
in former times often, nowadays from time to time as advisory counsel to a party
 
Subject-matter of arbitral proceedings:
National and International business law, especially: contract law, company law and consortial agreements; contracts for plant construction and infrastructure; mergers and acquisitions; foreign investment, contracts between States and private enterprises; international law, air and space law

Publications:
12 books authored and 33 books edited. More than  300 articles especially on the protection of foreign investments, international commercial contracts, state contracts, international legal proce­dure in civil and commercial matters, expropriation and nationali­zation measures, international commercial arbitration, and other fields of international business law;  as well as on liability in aviation, law of airports and air traffic control, commer­cial space activities, manned space flight, environmental protec­tion in space, settlement of space law disputes, and other fields of air and space law (in German, English, French; translations into Spanish and Portuguese) (Details in separate list of publications).

Editor of "Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit" (Studies of the German Institution for Arbitration). Editor of Series "Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht" (International Business Law) 1975-2001. Editor of the German Journal of Air and Space Law 1975-2001. Editor of Series "Studies in Air and Space Law" 1975-2001.

Libri Amicorum:
1) Law of International Business and Dispute Settlement in the 21^st Century – Liber Amicorum Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel; Editors: Briner, Fortier, Berger, Bredow; Cologne 2001, 824 pages.
2) Air and Space Law in the 21^st Century – Liber Amicorum Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel; Editors: Kröll, Benkö; Cologne 2001, 496 pages.