Dirk Heirbaut - Curriculum Vitae#
Studies:
- Master of Arts (History) (1988), Ghent University
- Master of Laws (1993), Ghent University
- Ph. D. (Law) (1997) (Ph. D. Thesis about feudal law in the county of Flanders, 1000-1305), Ghent University.
Functions, activities and memberships
- Director Department of Legal Theory and Legal History Ghent University
- Corresponding member of the Zentraldirektorium der Monumenta Germaniae Historica
- Partner in the Interuniversitary Attraction Pole Justice and Society
- President of the Scientific Committee for Legal History of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Arts and Science
- Secretary of the Belgian-Dutch Association for the Study of the History of the Reception of Roman Law in the Netherlands
- Founding vice-president of the European Society for Comparative Legal History
- Member of the assessement committee of the doctoral school legal history (Max Planck Institute of Legal History, 2006)
Editorial activities
- member of the editorial board of the reviews Pro memorie and Legal history review/Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis
- member of the editorial board of the Foundation for Old National Law (Netherlands)
- chief editor of the electronic legal history newsletter De Rechtshistorische Courant
- reporter for Belgium of the electronic review Clio & Themis
- member advisory board of the series Medieval Legal Practice (Brill)
- co-editor of the series Studies in the history of private law (Brill)
- co-editor of the series Iuris Scripta Historica of the Flemish Royal Academy;
- co-editor of the series Justitie en maatschappij / Justice & Society (Die Keure) and member of the editorial board of the series
Conference organisator
- Organiser or co-organiser of inter alia congresses about legal history in general (1998)
- the relationship between legal history and contemporary law (1999)
- encounters and confrontations between European and non-European legal systems (2000)
- Flemish medieval history (2002)
- archives and privacy (2002)
- the history of twentieth century law (2003)
- two hundred years French Civil code in Belgium (2004)
- two hundred years Code de Procédure civile (2006)
- two hundred years Code de Commerce (2007)
- two hundred years Code pénal (2010)
- Also organiser with M. Stolleis of the 2004 Summer School for Ph. Students in Legal History (Frankfurt, Max Planck Institute for Legal History)
Lectures
Multiple lectures in Belgium and abroad.