Education
Dr. jur. (University of Ghent, 1952); Licentiaat Economische Wetenschappen
(University of Ghent, 1955); Geaggregeerde Hoger Onderwijs Rechten – Agrégé Enseignement
Supérieur (University of Ghent, 1961); Post-Graduate Studies in Law
(Université de Paris, 1953 and London School of Economics, 1955)
Admitted
to Ghent Bar in 1952
Present position: Professor Emeritus; Barrister
Professional Experience
Professor at Law Faculty of the University
of Ghent teaching, inter alia, European law, civil procedural law, comparative
law, jurimetrics, maritime law and contract
law (1952-1995);
Visiting Professor and Chair in Belgian Law, University of
London, Queen Mary College (1985-1986);
Chair of the Vlaamse Leergangen
in Louvain (1986-1987);
Cleveringa-Chair in Leiden (1987-1988); Francqui-Chair
in Brussels (V.U.B., 1988/1989);
Vice-President, Belgian Centre for the
Practice
of National and International Arbitration (1975-);
Director, Institute
for National and International Arbitration (1987-);
Director, Belgian
Quarterly Review Tijdschrift voor Privaatrecht; Co-editor, Nederlands
Tijdschrift voor
Arbitrage;
Editor, Procedural Reporter; Editor European Private
Law Review
(1993-);
Visiting Professor in, inter alia, France, Germany,
Italy, Poland, China, England, Holland, Rumania, Portugal, Greece, Zaire,
Burundi,
Rwanda,
Japan, Indonesia, Norway, Brazil, U.S.A., Finland, Spain, Japan;
Honorary Professor of the China University at Beijing (1988);
Doctor
honoris causa
University
M. Curie Lublin (1995);
Expert World Bank (Argentina 1994;
Ecuador 1995);
Judge ad hoc European Court Strasbourg (1991 and 1997);
Chairman of the
commission that prepared a draft Harmonization of Procedural
Law in the European Union
(1987-1993)
Areas of Specialization
Contract and tort, international business law, maritime law, European law,
procedural law, economic law, arbitration, mediation, IT-contracts, building
contracts
Professional Associations
Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences
(Member 1982; President 1997);
International Association of Procedural
Law (Secretary-General 1983-1995; President 1995-);
Belgian-Dutch Association for Comparative Law (Secretary-General
1975-1988; President 1988-);
Academia Europaea (1988-);
President Flemish
Lawyers’ Association
(1983-1998)
Panels of Arbitrators
CEPINA (Belgian Centre for National
and International Arbitration)
I.C.C.
UNCITRAL
Fora Ghent
Euro-Arab Chambers of Commerce
LCA
Vienna and Stockholm
NAI
ICSID
Arbitration Experience
35 years of experience mostly as chairman of international arbitral tribunals,
appointed by the I.C.C. and other international arbitration centres, sometimes
as sole arbitrator or party-appointed arbitrator
Publications
Books on, inter alia, the burden of proof, civil procedural law in Belgium,
European law and European civil procedural law, general principles of
the law, case law, international commercial arbitration in Belgium, and
jurimetrics
Articles in periodicals in Belgium and abroad on, inter alia,
civil procedural
law, European law, arbitration law, and international contracts
Languages
Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish, Italian
