Koenraad Lenaerts#
| Membership Number: | 645 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Main Country of Residence: | LUXEMBOURG |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 1989 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since October 2015 President of the Court of Justice of the European Union
- 2003 Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities
- 1989 - 2003 Judge of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities
- 1986 - 1989 Member of the Brussels Bar (acting as attorney in the European Court of Justice, inter alia on behalf of the Belgian State)
- 1984 - 1989 Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium
- 1984 - 1985 Law clerk to Judge René Joliet at the Court of Justice of the European Communities
- 1983 Professor of European Law, University of Leuven (with rank of “buitengewoon hoogleraar” since 1990); Director of the Institute of European Law
Fields of Scholarship
- European law
Honours and Awards
- Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund of New York, 1977-1979
- Honorary C.B.R. Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, 1977-1979
- Fellow of the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch-Dienst, 1979
- Prize of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Belgium, 1983, for doctoral dissertation
- Prize Fernand Collin of the “Fondation universitaire”, Belgium , 1984, for doctoral dissertation
- Member of the Academia Europaea, since 1988
- Belgian Francqui Chair at the University of Antwerp (1998) and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (2000)
- Chair at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2003-2004)
- Distinguished Helen DeRoy Fellow, University of Michigan Law School (2005).
