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Marcel Leon Louis Victor Storme

Address: 

Storme, Leroy, Van Parys
Coupure 5
B-9000 Gent
Belgium

Phone Number: 
(32-9) 224-34-99
Fax Number: 
(32-9) 223-99-50
Email: 
m.storme@storme-law.be
Born: 
1930
Languages: 
Dutch French English German Spanish Italian
Nationalities: 
Belgian
Education: 
Dr. jur. 1952, Univ. of Gent; Licentiaat Economische Wetenschappen 1955, Univ. of Gent; Geaggregeerde Hoger Onderwijs Rechten (Agrégé Enseignement Supérieur) 1961, Gent; Post Graduate Studies in Law 1953, 1955, Univ. de Paris, London School of Economics
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
Admitted to Ghent bar as Barrister 1952
Present Position: 
Professor, Univ. of Ghent; Director, Inst. for National and International Arbitration; Member of the Belgian Academy (Brussels) and of the Academia Europaea (Cambridge)
Professional Experience: 

Professor, Law Faculty, University of Ghent (1952- ); Director, Institute for National and International Arbitration (1987- ); Visiting Professor & Holder of Belgian Chair, Univ. of London (Queen Mary College)(1985-1986); Chair of the Vlaamse Leergangen in Louvain (1986- 1987); Holder of the Cleveringa-leerstoel in Leiden (1987-1988); Holder Leverhulm Chair London (1991); Vice President, Belgian Centre for the Practice of National and International Arbitration (1975- ); Judge ad hoc European Court Human Rights Strasburg (1990-1991); Visiting Professor in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, China, England, Holland, Rumania, Portugal, Greece, Zaire, Burundi, Rwanda, Norway, Japan. Latvia, Spain, Brazil, Aruba, Suriname; Expert for the reform of justice in Argentina and in Ecuador, appointed by the World Bank; Chairman of a commission which had to control the quality of law faculties in Holland (1996), in Aruba (1997), in Suriname (1998), in Latvia (1999-2001), in Belgium (1998)

Professional Associations: 

International Association of Procedural Law (President since 1995); Belgian-Dutch Association. for Comparative Law (Chairman since 1988); Belgian Centre Procedural Law (Chairman)

Panels of Arbitrators: 

CEPINA Brussels; Euro-Arab Chambers of Commerce; ICC Paris; LCA London; Club of Arbitrators Milano

Arbitration Experience: 

35 years experience mostly as Chairman of the arbitral tribunal, appointed by ICC, Cepina, FORA, and also Chairman or member of arbitral tribunals set up under the UNCITRAL rules and under the ICSID rules; sole arbitrator, party-appointed arbitrator, domestic and international proceedings, re: contracts, torts, international business law, intellectual property

Areas of Specialization: 
Civil & Commercial Law
Company Law
Comparative Law
Contracts
Economic Law
European Union Law
Human Rights Law
Intellectual Property
International Business Transactions
Maritime Law
Procedural Law
Torts
Publications from JURIS: 
Publications: 

Author of books on burden of proof, civil procedural law in Belgium, European Law and European civil procedural law, general principles of law, case law; articles in periodicals in Belgium and abroad on civil procedural law, European law, arbitration law, international contracts; Director, Belgian Quarterly Review Tijdschrift voor Privaatrecht; Co-Editor, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Arbitrage; Editor, Procedural Reporter; Co-author (Storme, M. and Demeulenaere) International Commercial Arbitration in Belgium (Deventer 1989); Author, The Place of Arbitration (Gent 1993); Author, General Report on the Harmonization of Procedural Law in Europe (Gent 1993); co-editor Series Civil Procedure in Europe (1995- ); chief editor of the European Private Law Review (1992- ).