Jules Stuyck (°31 July 1948 in Tienen), got his law degree at KU Leuven (1965-1970). He obtained his Ph.D. in 1975 on "Aggressive Sales Methods" at the KU Leuven. He made several research visits to the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual property in Münich. In 1987 he became a professor at the KU Leuven, Faculty of Law where he taught European Law and Consumer Law. Since 1987 he became also a professor of European Law at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. Since 2000 he has been a visiting professor of EU Competition Law at the Central European University of Budapest and since 2008 visiting professor of European Consumer Law and European law at Université Panthéon-Assass Paris II. Until 2007 he was a professor of Economic law at the Faculty of Economics and Applied Economics, KU Leuven. During the academic years 1990-1991 and 1994-1995, he was holder of the Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Bonn, Zentrum für Europäisches Wirtschaftsrecht; and during the academic year 1998-1999, the Jacques Delors Chair, Alma Universities (Liège, Hasselt, Aachen, Maastricht). From 1989 until 1994, he was professor at the College of Europe, where the taught “Introduction au droit des C.E.” (dominante économique). He has been the director of the Centre for European Economic Law and the Study Centre for Consumer Law from the start in 1990. In September 2013 he retired and became an emeritus professor. Jules Stuyck is a member of the Brussels bar since 1984. He is partner with the law firm Liedekerke, where he heads the department of European and competition law. He frequently represents clients in the European Courts. He is on the editorial or advisory board of several Belgian and international legal journals and he is a member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on European Contract Law (established in 2011).  Recent publications include the third edition of a book on commercial practices in Belgium (Handelspraktijken, in Beginselen van Belgisch Privaatrecht, Mechelen, Kluwer, 2013) and the second edition of a French language contribution on European consumer law in the Jurisclasseur Europe. Several other publications, notably in the field of European consumer law, are in preparation.