Biografie

Dirk Heirbaut, geboren te Hamme op 9 september 1966, studeerde geschiedenis (1988) en rechten (1993) te Gent. Hij vervulde zijn legerdienst in het legermuseum te Brussel in de periode 1989-1990. Hierna werd hij assistent rechtsgeschiedenis bij professor Daniel Lambrecht in de Rechtsfaculteit te Gent. In 1997 verdedigde hij zijn doctoraat over het vroege Vlaamse leenrecht, ca. 1000-1305. Met ingang van 30 september 1998 is hij als professor rechtsgeschiedenis verbonden aan de faculteit.

Biography

- Date and place of birth: 9 September 1966, Hamme (Belgium)
- Master of Arts (History) (1988), Master of Laws (1993), Ph. D. (Law) (1997) (Ph. D. Thesis about feudal law in the county of Flanders, 1000-1305).
- Researcher Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and of Military History (Brussels, (1989-1990), Researcher National Fund for Scientific Research (1990), Assistant Ghent University Belgium (1991-1997), Professor of Legal History and Roman Law, Ghent University Belgium (1998-). Guest-professor for Comparative Law Uppsala University Sweden (1995), Fellow Robbins Collection, Berkeley (1997), Stipendiat Max-Planck-Institut for European legal history Frankfurt (2001 and 2003), TPR-chair University of Amsterdam (2007), guest professor Free University Brussels (2010).
- Director Department of Legal Theory and Legal History Ghent University; director IT-department Law Faculty Ghent University.
- Corresponding member of the Zentraldirektorium der Monumenta Germaniae Historica.
- Partner in the Interuniversitary Attraction Pole Justice and Society (2006-2011)
-Member of the board of editors of the reviews Pro memorie, Legal history review/Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis; member of the board of the Foundation for Old National Law (Netherlands); also 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; co-editor of the series Justitie en maatschappij (Die Keure); member of the editorial board of the series Justice & Society; member of the editorial board of Comparative Legal History.
- 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.
- Organiser or co-organiser of workshops and congresses inter alia on 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); legal hybridity (2012). Also organiser with M. Stolleis of the 2004 Summer School for Ph. Students in Legal History (Frankfurt, Max Planck Institute for Legal History).
- Other: member of the assessement committee of the doctoral school legal history (Max Planck Institute of Legal History, 2006).

Contact: Dirk.Heirbaut@UGent.be

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