凡•豪埃克，复旦大学社会科学高等研究院学术委员会创始委员。
Mark Van Hoecke
( Ghent, 27 May 1949)
1. Education
Studies in philosophy (cum laude) and in law (magna cum laude) at the University of Ghent (1967-1972)
M.A. Eastern European Studies (Flemish Interuniversitary Programme) (magna cum laude) (1979)
Doctor in Law (summa cum laude), with a thesis on the Freedom of Interpretation of the Judge, at the University of Ghent (1979)
2. Professional career
1972-1982: assistant professor at the Universiteit Antwerpen (University of Antwerp)
1975-1979: advocate at the bar in Ghent
1979-1982: part-time professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel (Catholic University of Brussels)
1981-1984: part-time professor at the University of Antwerp
1996-1998 part-time professor Legal Theory at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
2001-2002 visiting professor at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy)
October 1982 – January 2008 full-time professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel, teaching Introduction to Law, Introduction to Private Law, Legal Theory, and Comparative Law
As from February 2008 full time research professor for ‘Legal Theory & Comparative Law’ at the University of Ghent
As from March 2008 also part-time research professor for ‘Methodology of Comparative Law’ at the University of Tilburg (The Netherlands)
3. Management positions
Dean of the law faculty at the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel (1987-1991 and 1996-2000)
Founding director of the Research Centre for Legal Theory at the KUB, since 1995
Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies and Continuing Education at the KUB (1995-2001)
Since 1989 founding co-director (with François Ost) of the European Academy of Legal Theory, organising the master's course in legal theory since 1992.
Co-president of the European Association for the Teaching of Legal Theory (since 1989)
President of the Belgian Section of the International Association for legal philosophy and social philosophy (IVR) (since 1996)
Member of the Board of the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel (2001-2002)
Rector of the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel (April 2002 – September 2007)
4. Research interests
Legal Theory, Comparative Law, Comparative Legal Cultures.
5. Other research activities
5.1. Research periods abroad of at least 1 month
European University Institute (Florence) 1.10.01 – 1.7.02: research on (theory of) comparative law.
University of Lagos (Nigeria) 15.01.08 -15.02.08: research on (theory of) comparative law and legal cultures
5.2. Self organised international conferences
International Conference on Time and Law, Brussels 30-31 January 1998
International Conference on European Private Law in Context, Brussels 5-6 February 1999
International Conference on Epistemology and Methodology of Comparative Law, Brussels 24-26 October 2002
5.3. Active contribution to international conferences, colloquia and seminars
Only lectures as from 1999 are listed hereafter:
Lecture on’The Unification of Private Law in Europe’ at the self organised Conference on ‘European Private Law in Context’, Brussels 5-6 February 1999
Invited lecture on ‘Judicial Review and Deliberative Democracy: a Circular Model of Law Creation and Legitimation’ at the International (closed) Workshop on ‘Law and Deliberative Politics’, Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld, 26-27 February 1999
Invited lecture on ‘The Unification of Private Law in Europe’ at the international workshop on ‘The Sociology of Law of European Integration’, held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, 25-26 March 1999
Invited lecture (with J.Dhondt) on 'Obstacles and Opportunities for the Harmonisation of Law in Europe: the Case of Privacy' at the International Conference on the Present State, Rationality and Direction of European Legal Integration, Helsinki: 16-17 September 1999
Invited lecture on ‘Towards New Forms of Comparative Law – Legal Orders Between Autonomy and Intertwinement’’ at the International Workshop on ‘Public Governance in the Age of Globalization’, European University Institute, Florence 17-18 March 2000
Lecture on ‘Deep Level Comparative Law’ at the self organised Conference on Epistemology and Methodology of Comparative Law, Brussels 24-26 October 2002
Lecture on ‘Lawyer’s Legal Theory’ at the IVR World Conference, Lund 12-18 August 2003
Invited lecture on ‘L’idéologie d’un Code civil européen’ at theIinternational Conference ‘Un ancêtre vénéré ? Commémoration du bicentenaire du Code civil, Université Libre de Bruxelles 19-21 February 2004
Invited lecture on ‘Legal Theory in Legal Education’ at the International Conference on ‘Juristische Grundlagenfächer und europäische Studienreformen’, Luzern 14-16 October 2004
Invited lecture on ‘The Interpretation of Standard Contract Terms’ (with A. De Boeck) at the International Conference on ‘Standard Contract Terms in Europe: A Basis for and a Challenge to European Contract Law’, Prague 17-18 June 2005
Invited chairman of a session at the International Conference on ‘Direito Natural, Justiça e Política’, Porto 8-10 November 2005
Invited lecture on Methodology of Comparative Law at the Pufendorf Seminar, Lund 21 November 2005
Invited lecture on ‘Legal Cultures, Legal Traditions and Comparative Law’at the Conference on ‘The Possibility of Intercultural Law’, Kaap Doorn (Driebergen/Zeist, The Netherlands), 9-10 June 2006
Invited lecture on ‘Globalisation, Europeanisation and Legal Education’ at the Conference on ‘Legal Culture and Postgraduate Legal Education’, Urbino 13-14 October 2006
Invited lecture on ‘Islamic Jurisprudence and Western Legal History’ at the International (closed) Conference on ‘Shari’a as discourse’, Copenhagen 20-22 March 2007
Invited plenary lecture on ‘European Legal Cultures in a Context of Globalisation’, at the IVR World Conference in Krakow (Poland)(1-6 August2007) on August 4th, 2007
Invited lecture on ‘Legal Cultures and Globalisation’ at the International Conference on Comparison of Sino-Foreign Legal Systems, Beijing 13-14 October2007(where I have also been asked to chair a session and to present concluding remarks at the end of the Conference).
Invited lecture on ‘Tradition and History as Argument in Legal Reasoning’ at the International Symposium ‘Beyond Legal Modernity: In Search for New Coordinates. Nordic Jurisprudence Revisited’, Reykjavik 24-27 April 2008
5.4. Invited lectures at universities and scholarly institutions
Invited lectures have, in the course of the years been held at universities in Uppsala, Stockholm, Lyon Univ.Jean Moulin), Paris (Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature), Tilburg, Amsterdam (Univ. van Amsterdam), Maastricht, Rotterdam, Nijmegen, Genova, Pisa, Bologna, Urbino, Firenze (EUI) Alicante, Helsinki, Münster, Berlin (Humboldt Univ.), Hannover, Bielefeld, Canterbury, Leeds, Kosiçe, Krakau, Lublin, Lodz, Budapest, Miskolc, Istanbul, Beijing, (Renmin Law School), Quebec, Montréal (UQAM & Univ. de Montréal).
The most recent ones include:
13 & 16 May 2005: lectures at the law faculty of the Marie Curie-Sklodowska University at Lublin (Poland) on Comparative Law & Legal Theory
23, 26, 27 & 28 December 2005: lectures at Renmin Law School (Beijing) on The Concept of Law, Methodology of Law, The Role of Legal Doctrine, and Legal Cultures and Comparative Law.
2 & 3 May 2007: lectures at Kültür University, Istanbul, on Legal Cultures, Legitimation of Law, and Harmonisation of Law in Europe
13 March 2008: lecture at the Universityu of Catanzaro (Italy) (PhD programme in law) on ‘Harmonisation of Law in Europe’
16 June 2008: lecture at the law faculty of the University of Göttingen on ‘The Functions of the Law’
5.5. (Co-)promotorship of defended doctoral dissertations
Luc Wintgens, Rechtspositivisme en wetspositivisme. Een rechtstheoretische en rechtsfilosofische analyse, K.U.Leuven March 1990
Maurice Adams, De precedentwerking van rechterlijke uitspraken, K.U.Leuven 23 April 1997
Mark Warrington ‘Structures of Europeanisation and Comparative Legal Theory’, KUB 29 July 2001
Henning Köppen ‘Verfassungsfunktionen – Vertragsfunktionen. Ein rechtsvergleichender Beitrag zur Diskussion um einen europäischen Bundesstaat und eine ‘Verfassung für Europa’’,KUB 3 September 2001
Shiv Bedi ‘The Development of Human Rights Law by the International Court of Justice’, KUB 10 June 2004