1. CONTACT V.U.B. - Free University of Brussels Centre for International Law Pleinlaan 2 B-1050 Brussels Belgium Tel.: (+32) (0)2/629.26.38 Fax: (+32) (0)2/629.36.98

2. EDUCATION

• 1953: LL. D., State University Ghent, Belgium

• 1954: M.A. Diplomatic Science, State University Ghent, Belgium

• 1973: Ph. D. (Slavonic Philology and History), Free University Brussels (ULB), Belgium

• Research Fellow of various foreign universities: Paris, New York (Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law), Moscow, Leningrad-St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Urbana-Champaign (State University of Illinois, USA)

3. EXPERIENCE

• 1959-1995: Member of the Prosecution Service

• 1986-1995: Prosecutor General of the Belgian Forces

• 1976-1995: Professor of Law at the Free University of Brussels (VUB): lectures on Legal History, Comparative Law, East European Legal Systems

• 1993-1995: Promotor of Legal Cooperation Project: "Strengthening Democracy in Societies in Transition"

• 1994-1996: Promotor of Legal Cooperation Project: "Strengthening the Rule of Law in the Administration of Criminal Justice in Romania"

• Director of the Research Unit "OOST" (EAST): Free University of Brussels - Centre for the Study of East European Legal Systems

• 1999- : Member of the Free University of Brussels - Centre for International Law

4. PUBLICATIONS

About 60 publications (books and essays) in the field of criminal law and criminal procedure, military law, comparative law, legal history, East European legal systems (e.g. co-editor of "Encyclopaedia of Soviet Law", published in 1985 by the Documentation Office for East European Law of the University of Leyden, the Netherlands)

5. OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Member of various scientific organisations, such as the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde"

Secretary General (1988-1994) of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War

Chairman of the section "Legal and Institutional Problems" of an advisory committee on Eastern Europe, set up in 1990 by C.F. Nothomb, the then speaker of the Belgian Parliament

Consultant of the American Bar Association (1995-1996), CEELI (= Central and East European Law Initiative), i.a. for the "Analysis of the Draft Criminal Procedure Code for the Russian Federation", published on 13 February 1996.