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Boudewijn Bouckaert

(Belgium), Professor of Law, former Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Ghent

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Address:
CEVRO Institute
Jungmannova 17
110 00 Prague 1
Czech Republic

Curriculum vitae

​Current Position

• Professor of Law, CEVRO Institute, Prague

Past Positions

• Holder of Erasmus Chair ( January-June 2005) at the Harvard Law School teaching Transition Economics and Property Rights
•  2010 Universiteit van Torino; ‘The Economics of Property Rights’ Lesgever in het programma Law Institutions and Economics;
• 2011 Universiteit van Torino; ‘The Economics of Property Rights’ Lesgever in het programma Law Institutions and Economics; 
• 2012 Universiteit van Torino; ‘The Economics of Property Rights’ Lesgever in het programma Law Institutions and Economics; 
• 2013 University of Haifa-Israel, Lessenreeks over’ Judicial decision-making and economics’ 
• 2013 Universiteit van Torino; ‘The Economics of Property Rights’ Lesgever in het programma Law Institutions and Economics; 
• 2014 Universiteit van Torino; ‘The Economics of Property Rights’ Lesgever in het programma Law Institutions and Economics; 16-18 juni
• Since 1987 chair General Theory of Law Ghent University and since 1992 Director Department General Jurisprudence and History of Law Ghent University
• Started in 1989 the Erasmus Programme European Master in Law and Economics ; director of the programme 1989-1993; since 2004 Mundus Europe Programme; involves 10 universities; graduation of ca. 100 students/year
• Dean of the Law School 1989-2002 and Member of Board of Administration University Ghent (2000-2004 and 2014- )
• Started in 2004 together with the University of Torino (central organizer), Aix-en-Provence, Ecole Polytechnique Paris, Cornell University the Ph.D.-programme Law, Institutions and Economics (later joined by University of Prague, Hamburg, Haifa)

Education

• Ph.D. in law , 1971
• Full professor – Ghent University, 1991

Research Interests

• Law and Economics
• Property Rights 
• Intellectual Property

Selected Academic Publications

• Economics and Case Law on Property, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 2015
• Property Law and Economics, Volume 5 Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2010,336 p. 
• Visie(s) op Onderwijs, Pelckmans, 2014, 261 p.
• Judex Calcula! Ook voor Mensenrechten? In Liberae Cogitationes, Liber Amicorum Marc Bossuyt, Intersentia, 2013, 61-81
• Botsende culturen zetten tolerantie onder druk. De hoofddoek als test-case(coauteur Manuel Dierickx-Visschers) in Grenzen aan Tolerantie?, Jaarboek Verbond Vlaamse Academici, Pelckmans, 2011
• De spoken van Shylock : Europa’s ambivalente houding tegenover het kapitalisme, in Continent op drift? Europese Waarden in de schaduwen van morgen, Jaarboek Verbond van Vlaamse Academici, Pelckmans, 2010
• The Post Mortem Homo Economicus : What Does He tell Us? in Imperative Inheritance Law in a Late-Modern Society (editors Christophe Castelein, Réné Foqué and Alain Verbeke), Intersentia 2009, 91-106