À propos

Stefaan Voet (° 1978) studied law at Ghent University (2001). In 2011 he wrote his PhD thesis about complex litigation in Belgium, for which he received in 2014 the Triannual Price of Civil Procedure awarded by the vzw Algemene Modellenverzameling voor de Rechtspraktijk.

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Since 2015 he is an associate professor of civil procedure at the University of Leuven and a host professor at the University of Hasselt.

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Stefaan was a visiting scholar at the University of Houston (2009) and Stanford Law School (2014). He was a visiting lecturer/professor at the University of Houston, SMU Dedman School of Law in Dallas, University of Tennessee, Syracuse University, China-EU School of Law in Beijing, University of Pavia, University of Pretoria, EMARF (Escola da Magistratura Regional Federal da 2E Regiao) in Rio de Janeiro and Roma Tre University. In 2016-2017 he held the TPR (Tijdschrift voor Privaatrecht) Chair at the University of Utrecht (Molengraaff Institute for Private Law). In 2020 he was an external scientific fellow at the (former) Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. He is a member of different working groups of the European Law Institute. In 2025, he was appointed by the Dutch Secretary of State for Justice and Security as quartermaster for the establishment of a Central Register for Mediators.

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Stefaan is also a substitute judge of Court of Appeals in Ghent, member of the board of directors of Ombudsfin and effective member of the Dutch Appointments Committee for the Notary profession.