Dirk Heirbaut - Curriculum Vitae#

• Master of Arts (History) (1988), Ghent University
  
• Master of Laws (1993), Ghent University
  
• Ph. D. (Law) (1997) (Ph. D. Thesis about feudal law in the county of Flanders, 1000-1305), Ghent University.
  

• Director Department of Legal Theory and Legal History Ghent University
  
• Corresponding member of the Zentraldirektorium der Monumenta Germaniae Historica
  
• Partner in the Interuniversitary Attraction Pole Justice and Society
  
• President of the Scientific Committee for Legal History of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Arts and Science
  
• Secretary of the Belgian-Dutch Association for the Study of the History of the Reception of Roman Law in the Netherlands
  
• Founding vice-president of the European Society for Comparative Legal History
  
• Member of the assessement committee of the doctoral school legal history (Max Planck Institute of Legal History, 2006)

• member of the editorial board of the reviews Pro memorie and Legal history review/Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis
  
• member of the editorial board of the Foundation for Old National Law (Netherlands)
  
• chief editor of the electronic legal history newsletter De Rechtshistorische Courant
  
• reporter for Belgium of the electronic review Clio & Themis
  
• member advisory board of the series Medieval Legal Practice (Brill)
  
• co-editor of the series Studies in the history of private law (Brill)
  
• co-editor of the series Iuris Scripta Historica of the Flemish Royal Academy;
  
• co-editor of the series Justitie en maatschappij / Justice & Society (Die Keure) and member of the editorial board of the series
  

• Organiser or co-organiser of inter alia congresses about legal history in general (1998)
  
• the relationship between legal history and contemporary law (1999)
  
• encounters and confrontations between European and non-European legal systems (2000)
  
• Flemish medieval history (2002)
  
• archives and privacy (2002)
  
• the history of twentieth century law (2003)
  
• two hundred years French Civil code in Belgium (2004)
  
• two hundred years Code de Procédure civile (2006)
  
• two hundred years Code de Commerce (2007)
  
• two hundred years Code pénal (2010)
  
• Also organiser with M. Stolleis of the 2004 Summer School for Ph. Students in Legal History (Frankfurt, Max Planck Institute for Legal History)