Stefaan Voet Professor of Law KU Leuven Centre for Public Law

Stefaan Voet studied law at Ghent University (2001). In 2011 he wrote his PhD thesis about complex litigation in Belgium, for which he received in 2014 the Triannual Price of Civil Procedure awarded by the vzw Algemene Modellenverzameling voor de Rechtspraktijk.

Since 2015 he is a professor of civil procedure at the University of Leuven and a host professor at the University of Hasselt. Stefaan was a visiting scholar at the Law Center University of Houston (2009) and Stanford Law School (2014). He was a visiting lecturer/professor at the Law Center University of Houston, SMU Dedman School of Law in Dallas, College of Law University of Tennessee, Syracuse University College of Law, China-EU School of Law in Beijing, University of Pavia, University of Pretoria and EMARF (Escola da Magistratura Regional Federal da 2E Regiao) in Rio de Janeiro.

In 2016-2017 he held the TPR (Tijdschrift voor Privaatrecht) Chair at the University of Utrecht (Molengraaff Institute for Private Law). In 2020, he was an external scientific fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law.

He is also a member of different working groups of the European Law Institute. Stefaan is a substitute justice of the peace in Bruges and chairman of the monitoring committee of the Ombudsman for Retail. He is also a practicing lawyer at the Bar of West Flanders in Kortrijk (DLPA Advocaten) where he focuses on litigation and commercial law.