Trained in three jurisdictions, Professor Eckart Brödermann is a Germany based international lawyer, arbitrator and a professor of law with a focus on private international law, international commercial contracting and international litigation and arbitration at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Eckart Brödermann is senior and founding partner of the law firm BRÖDERMANN JAHN, Hamburg/Germany (founded in 1996). Eckart Brödermann has served since over 20 years in various functions at the board of the Hamburg Bar, in specialist groups of the German Bar or currently, since approx. nine years, as the Chair of the joint committee of the bars of Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg Vorpommern for the examination of applications of request to be admitted to as German bar approved specialist for cross-border business law. Over the years, he has also held positions with committees at the IBA (inter alia Chair, Space Law Committee) and the IPBA․
Professor Brödermann has written and co-authored multiple books and articles, including an article-by-article commentary on the general principles and rules of international contract law as compiled and developed by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), i.e. the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial. He is currently publishing an article-by-article commentary of the CIETAC Arbitration Rules (with Björn Etgen, 2024), the 9th ed. 2024 of a case book for students on private international law and international litigation and as well as the 19th edition 2024 of comments on the Rome I Regulation and on international company law,