VAN DER MENSBRUGGHE François
Chargé de cours
Faculté de Droit, de Science politique et de Criminologie
Département de droit
Terminologie juridique en anglais - American Law
Cité
- ULiège address
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Bât. B31 Terminologie juridique en anglais - American Law
Quartier Agora
place des Orateurs 3
4000 Liège 1
Belgique
- Local
- Bureau 0-45
- ULiège phone number
- +32 4 3663160
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- Conseil sectoriel à la recherche et à la valorisation
- Sciences humaines
- University degrees
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2003 : Doctorat (Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP), Namur)
Biography
Professor van der Mensbrugghe studied law and economics in France (Aix-en-Provence and Paris), Belgium (Louvain-la-Neuve) and in the U.K. (London School of Economics). He served as an attorney at the Paris bar (France) for several years. He was Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, New York, in the Spring of 1993 and at the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C., in the Winter of 1998.
He served as an expert at the European Commission in the mid-1990s, working in DG XIII (Telecommunications, Information Market and Exploitation of Research), within the Unit headed by Dr. Herbert Ungerer and Jean-Eric de Cockborne (Regulatory Aspects). After serving at the European Commission, he returned to the academic world and completed a doctoral dissertation (PhD) on the concept of ¿universal service¿, taken from a Comparative law perspective (EU/USA).
He is currently working as Professor of Law at the University of Saint-Louis in Brussels, and at the University of Liège (ULg). His principal courses are: European Union Law, the Common Law, and Comparative Law. In addition his teaching, he was a longtime member of the ¿Faculté international de Droit compare¿ (FIDC) in Strasbourg, member of the Revue de droit international et de droit comparé, and treasurer at the Center for American Studies (CAS) in Brussels.
From February to July 2020, he will be on sabbatical leave at the University of Heidelberg.
Research field
- Sciences humaines
