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Professor, researcher and director of the Master's Degree in Procedural Law at Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
Since 2019, Oteiza is president of the International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL). From 2011 to 2013, he was president of the Asociación Argentina de Derecho Procesal and, from 2014 to 2018, of the Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Procesal.
He completed the Jean Monnet Fellow postdoctoral programme at the European University Institute (1987-1988) and was a scholar of CONICET (1987), of the Academy of European Law (1991), of the University of Bologna (1993), and of GIZ (Deusche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusamenarbeit) (2013).
He was a member of the Advisory Council of Justicia 2020 programme of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of Argentina (2016-2019) in which he co-drafted the National Code of Civil and Commercial Procedure.
He was a visiting professor, among others, at the following universities: Bologna, Turin, Genoa, Brescia, Florence, York (Toronto), Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), Medellín, Pontifica de Lima and the Max Planck Institute (Luxembourg). He received the "Enrico Redenti" award (2016).
Since October 2023, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Burkhard Hess is full professor of procedural law at the University of Vienna
He graduated in Bavaria (Second State Exam) in 1990. After his habilitation in Munich in 1996, he held a professorship in Erlangen und chairs of procedural law at the Universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg. From 2012 to 2023 he served as the founding director of the Max Planck Institute of Procedural Law in Luxembourg. He was invited as a Guest Professor to Taipei, to Georgetown (Washington D.C.), Paris (Sorbonne) and Beijing (Renmin University), and was a scholar-in-residence at the Centre for Transnational Law at the New York University. He is the recipient of three doctorates honoris causa awarded, respectively, by the University of Ghent, in March 2015, the University of Thessaloniki, in May 2016, and by the University of Lisbon, in October 2023. Since 2018, he is a member of the Institut de Droit International. In 2025, he delivered the General Course of Private International Law at the Hague Academy of International Law. He advises private and public clients.
