Koenraad Lenaerts#
| Membership Number: | 645 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | LUXEMBOURG |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since October 2015 President of the Court of Justice of the European Union
- 2003 Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities
- 1989 - 2003 Judge of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities
- 1986 - 1989 Member of the Brussels Bar (acting as attorney in the European Court of Justice, inter alia on behalf of the Belgian State)
- 1984 - 1989 Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium
- 1984 - 1985 Law clerk to Judge René Joliet at the Court of Justice of the European Communities
- 1983 Professor of European Law, University of Leuven (with rank of “buitengewoon hoogleraar” since 1990); Director of the Institute of European Law
Fields of Scholarship
- European law
Honours and Awards
- 1977 - 1979 Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund of New York
- 1977 - 1979 Honorary C.B.R. Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation
- 1979 Fellow of the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch-Dienst
- 1983 Prize of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Belgium, for doctoral dissertation
- 1984 Prize Fernand Collin of the “Fondation universitaire”, Belgium ,for doctoral dissertation
- Belgian Francqui Chair at the University of Antwerp (1998) and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (2000)
- 2003 - 2004 Chair at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- 2005 Distinguished Helen DeRoy Fellow, University of Michigan Law School
- 2017 Madame de Staël Prize by ALLEA
