Dirk Gustaaf Maria Heirbaut#
| Membership Number: | 3386 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.rechtsgeschiedenis.be http://users.ugent.be/~dheirbau/CVDRAS.htm |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 Guest professor Free University Brussels
- 2007 TPR-chair University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- 2001 and 2003 Stipendiat Max-Planck-Institute for European legal history Frankfurt-am-Main (Germany)
- 1998 - presentProfessor of Legal History and Roman Law, Department of legal theory and legal history, Ghent University, Belgium
- 1997 Fellow Robbins Collection, UCB, Berkeley, Cal. (USA)
- 1995 Guest-professor for Comparative Law Uppsala University Sweden
- 1991 - 1997 Assistant Ghent University (Belgium)
- 1990 Researcher National Fund for Scientific Research of Belgium,
- 1989 - 1990 Researcher Museum of the Army and the History of War in Brussels
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative legal history
- Medieval customary law
- Feudalism
- Codification
- History of private law
Honours and Awards
- Fellowship Robbins Collection, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley (1997)
- Laureate Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Arts and Sciences (1998)
- Corresponding member of the Zentraldirektorium of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (2007)
