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KAREN VANDEKERCKHOVE
KAREN VANDEKERCKHOVE
CONTACT
ADDRESS
Institute
for International Trade Law
Faculty
of Law
Tiensestraat
41,
3000 Leuven
Belgium
Office: 02.25
Telephone: 32
16 32 51 86
Secretary
: 32 16 32 51 30
Fax : 32 16
32 54 64
E-mail: Karen.Vandekerckhove@law.kuleuven.be
CURRICULUM VITAE
I. Personal
Date of birth: January
30, 1969
II. Academic qualifications
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.,
August 1992 – June 1993
Degree:
LL.M., June 1993
Activities:
International Law Society, European Association
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN,
Belgium, October 1989 – July 1992
Licenciaat in de rechten, July
1992
Magna cum laude (top 1%)
KARL-RUPRECHTSUNIVERSITAT
HEIDELBERG, Germany, October 1991 – Febr. 1992
Erasmusprogram of the European
Community, 1991-1992
FACULTES NOTRE-DAME-DE-LA-PAIX, Namur,
Belgium, September 1987 – June 1989
Candidat en droit, June 1989
Magna cum laude (top 1%)
Activities: Fondation Universitaire pour la Coopération au Développement
SUMMER
COURSES, PROJECTS AND TRAINEESHIPS
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, Florence, Italy, July 1994
European law
CORNELL
LAW SCHOOL, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A., July – August 1993
Research assistantship with Prof. W. Taylor
in the field of international commercial law
TOURNICOURT
& VANISTENDAEL, Brussels, September 1991
Traineeship in tax law
COLEGIO
DE SALAMANCA, Salamanca, Spain, September 1990
Spanish
SOMMERHOCHSCHULE VON DER UNIVERSITÄT WIEN,
Strobl, Austria, July-August 1990
International
law and German
VANDENDRIESSCHE
& CO., Antwerp, Belgium, September 1989
Traineeship
in commercial law
FONDATION UNIVERSITAIRE
POUR LA COOPERATION AU DEVELOPPEMENT, July-August 1987
Anthropological project in Congo (formerly
Zaire)
III. Professional activities
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY LEUVEN, Leuven,
Belgium, January 2000 until today
Attached to the Institute
for International Trade Law with a grant of the Fund for Scientific Research
of the Flemish Community (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek –
Vlaanderen)
CLEARY,
GOTTLIEB, STEEN & HAMILTON, Brussels, Belgium, January 2001 until
today Off-counsel
CLEARY, GOTTLIEB, STEEN & HAMILTON,
Brussels, Belgium, August 1994 – December 1999
CLEARY,
GOTTLIEB, STEEN & HAMILTON, New York, U.S.A., Nov. 1993 – July 1994
CONFERENCES
AND TEACHING
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE INFORMATION EXCHANGE
OFFICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (TAIEX), January 17-19, 2001, Riga, Latvia
Conference
organised in co-operation with the Ministries of Justice and Interior of
Latvia on “Economic crime”
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
INFORMATION EXCHANGE OFFICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (TAIEX), December
7-8, 2000, Riga, Latvia
Conference
organised in co-operation with the Ministry of Justice of Latvia on
“Judicial powers, jurisdiction and methods of enforcement in civil and
commercial matters under the Lugano Convention and the latest developments
– outlook on the future. Significance
for Latvia”
EUROPEAN
UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, Florence, Italy, December 1994
Teaching
of the course ²European
Environmental Law²
during the East-West Forum
IV. Extra-professional
activities
Special youth care for young delinquents,
1990-1992
Youth movement 1976-1986
Music
studies 1979-1992
V.Languages
Mother tongue: Dutch
Perfect knowledge of French and English
Fluent in German
Working
knowledge of Spanish
RESEARCH
Aspects of conflicts of laws
relating to piercing the corporate veil in groups of companies
PUBLICATIONS
"Beslag
op goederen van verbonden vennootschappen", T.R.V. 2001, pp. 177-182
"De
interpretatie van Europees bevoegdheids- en executierecht”, in VAN HOUTTE,
H. and PERTEGAS SENDER, M. (eds.), Het
nieuwe Europese IPR: van verdrag naar verordening, Antwerpen-Groningen,
Intersentia Rechtswetenschappen, 2001, pp. 11-29
“Vereenzelviging
en het doorbreken van de rechtssubjectiviteit van verbonden
vennootschappen”, T.R.V. 2000,
pp. 275-283
“SMITS,
J., Europees Privaatrecht in wording. Naar
een Ius Commune Europaeum als gemengd rechtsstelsel”, T.P.R. 2000, pp. 1255-1258
“LENNARTS,
M.L., Concernaansprakelijkheid”, T.P.R.
2000, pp. 575-578
"The
Polluter Pays Principle in the EC",
Yearbook of European Law 1992,
Clarendon Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, 1994, pp. 201-262
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