Professor Dr. Peter A. Windel was born in 1959. He studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Göttingen, being awarded his first and second state-exams by the Ministry of Justice of the state of Baden-Württemberg. In 1991 he earned his Doctor iur. utr. degree and in 1996 his postdoctoral lecture qualification to teach (Habilitation) both civil and civil procedural law from the School of Law of the University of Heidelberg.

He is a member of the Civil Law Teachers Association (ZLV), the Association of Civil Procedural Law Teachers, the Scholarly Association for International Procedural Law, the Reinhäuser Legal Scholars Congress, the Legal Society Ruhr e.V., the Society for the advancement of Legal Sciences e.V. (VFR) and both of the German-Japanese (DJJV) and the German-Taiwanese Jurists Association (DTJV). After being Professor at the University of Bayreuth in 1997 he was called upon to inherit the Chair for Procedural and Civil Law from Professor Dr. Walter Zeiss at the Ruhr University Bochum in 1998. From 2006 to 2008 he has been the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Ruhr University and Vice-Dean from 2008 to 2010. From 2011 to 2014 Professor Windel has been also a member of the Ruhr University’s Senate. Professor Dr. Peter A. Windel has been elected Regional Secretary and Delegate for the convent of the State Northrhine-Westfalica by the German Universities Alliance (DHV) in 2010 and reelected in 2013.

In 2009 he was appointed PI for forensic legal studies at the School of Law of the Ruhr University. He has published numerous books as well as papers in the fields of substantial and procedural law including bankruptcy and liability law in various well renowned legal reviews and journals in German and in English. Some papers have been translated into Mandarin, Japanese, Turkish and Russian.