Alain Wijffels

Alain Wijffels (born October 26, 1954 in Chêne-Bougeries , Switzerland ) is a Belgian legal historian and university professor .

Life

Wijffels was after studies a. a. at the University of Antwerp , in Leuven , Louvain-la-Neuve and at the University of Paris II in 1985 at the University of Amsterdam for Dr. iur. PhD . The two-volume doctoral thesis Qui millies allegatur. Les allégations du droit savant dans les dossiers du Grand Conseil de Malines (causes septentrionales, approx. 1460–1580) appeared in the same year. In 1994, in Cambridge promotion to Ph.D. In 2009 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters for his overall scientific work . He has been a member of the Académie Royale de Belgique since 2004, of the Commission royale pour la publication des anciennes lois et ordonnances de Belgique since 2009 , and of the Royal Dutch Society of Sciences since 2007. Wijffels is Professor of Legal History and Comparative Law at the Université catholique de Louvain and teaches the history of European constitutional law and the history of international law at the University of Leiden , as well as the history of comparative constitutional law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Campus Kortrijk . He was visiting professor at the universities of Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, Gent, Nantes, Paris-II and Paris-XII, and he is research director at the Center national de la recherche scientifique , member of the Center d'Histoire Judiciaire in Lille. From 2016 to 2017 he held the European chair at the Collège de France.

2012–2015, Wijffels is also a sub-project leader in the Frankfurt LOEWE focus on 'Extrajudicial and judicial conflict resolution'. His main research interests include the Ius commune from the late Middle Ages to the 17th century, the history of court and civil procedure law, and the history of commercial law from the 15th to 17th centuries .

Awards

• 1989: Prix Charles Duvivier of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Belgium
• 2002: Francqui Chair ( Ghent University )
• 2002: Sarton Medal (Ghent University)
• 2008: Honorary Citizenship of the City of San Ginesio (Macerata)

Fonts

• Qui millies allegatur. Les allégations du droit savant dans les dossiers du Grand Conseil de Malines (causes septentrionales, approx. 1460–1580). 2 volumes. Brill, Leiden 1985, ISBN 90-04-07753-7 .
• as Ed .: Case law in the making. The techniques and methods of judicial records and law reports (= Comparative studies in Continental and Anglo-American legal history. Volume 17). 2 volumes. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-09075-6 and ISBN 3-428-09076-4 .
• as editor: History in court. Historical expertise and methods in a forensic context (= Studia forensia historica. Volume 3). Ius Deco Publ., Leiden 2001, ISBN 90-74490-03-4 .
• Le code civil entre ius commune et droit privé européen. Bruylant, Brussels 2005, ISBN 2-8027-2029-5 .
• Introduction historique au droit. France - Allemagne - Angleterre. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-13-057406-4 .
• as publisher: European Supreme Courts. A portrait through history. Third Millennium, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-906507-40-4 .
• Le droit européen at-il une histoire? En at-il besoin? (= Leçons inaugurales du Collège de France. 271). Fayard, Paris 2017, ISBN 978-2-213-70514-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ page at the Collège de France

Web links

• Page at the Université catholique de Louvain
• Page at the KU Leuven
• Laudatory speech given by Dirk Heirbaut on the occasion of the awarding of the Sarton Medal to Alain Wijffels in 2002
• Alain Wijffels on the website of the Frankfurt LOEWE focus on 'Extrajudicial and judicial conflict resolution'