Curriculum Vitae: Caroline Van Schoubroeck Personal information

Curriculum Vitae: Caroline Van Schoubroeck

Personal information

Professor (hoogleraar)

KU Leuven Faculty of Law, Tiensestraat 41, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

Born on January 18, 1960 (Turnhout, Belgium), married, 3 children

Current Profession

 Professor KU Leuven (hoogleraar)(75%).

Faculty of Law, Department of economic law, Institute of Insurance Law

Tiensestraat 41, 3000 Leuven.

 Head Institute of Insurance Law, KU Leuven.

 Currently teaching at KU Leuven the courses on: Insurance Law; Occupational

pensions and health insurance (co with prof. Y. Stevens) (Faculty of Law, Master of

Law); European Insurance Law (Faculty of Law, LL.M., Erasmus program/ Faculty of

Economics and Business, Master Actuarial and Financial Engineering); Introduction

to Insurance law (Faculty of Economics and Business, Master Actuarial and Financial

Engineering); Principles of Belgian contract, liability and insurance law (Faculty of

Medicine, Master of Forensic Odontology).

 Member of the Antwerp (section Turnhout) Bar (Law office Schuermans Advocaten).

 Since 26 March 2009: Chair of the Belgian Commission des Assurances/Commissie

voor Verzekeringen (advisory board on insurance regulation reporting to the Minister

in charge of insurance law and regulation) (Member since July 1999).

Education

 PhD in Law, KU Leuven, July 1993.

 Master of Laws (LL.M.), Harvard Law School, Cambridge M.A., USA, 1984.

 Licentiate of Law, KU Leuven, 1983.

Membership of research groups

 Since 2013: Co-founding Member of the Interuniversitair Centrum voor

Aansprakelijkheids- en Verzekeringsrecht (UAntwerp, UGhent, VUB and KU Leuven).

 Since 2011: Co-coordinator Themis School for Postacademic Legal Training KU

Leuven, section Liability and Insurance law.

 Since 2007: Member of the research group on occupational pensions (chair prof. Y.

Stevens KU Leuven and prof. N.Torfs UHasselt).

 Since 1996: Senior research fellow Ius Commune Research school (Section Tort and

Insurance) (University Maastricht, University Utrecht, University Amsterdam and KU

Leuven).

 2010 - 2013: Member of the expert group Legal (insurance and tort law) of the PWO-

Project (Projectmatig wetenschappelijk onderzoek) KH Leuven on Risk competences

of young children - Riscki.

 October 2008 - October 2011: Belgian expert of the international comparative law

project on Public liability in Europe, Promotor prof. Oliver Dorr, University of

Osnabruck. Project funded by Fritz Thyssen Foundation in Germany.

 2000: Contributing author International Panel Climate Change-IPCC WG2 Third

Assessment Report, Chapter 8. Financial Services.

Membership of scientific associations

 2020: Member of the Presidential Council of AIDA World.

 Since 2019: Member of the European Law Institute and the Special Interest Group

(SIG) on Insurance law.

 Since 2016: Member of the Academic Advisory Committee IETL-Institute for

European Traffic Law.

 Since 2015: Staff member of LRisk KU Leuven and Member of the Steering Committee

of the former Center for Risk and Insurance Studies-CRIS KU Leuven (°1989)

https://feb.kuleuven.be/drc/LRisk.

 Since December 2009: President of the Belgian Section of AIDA - International

Association of Insurance Law http://www.aida-be.org/nl/, http://www.aida-be.org/fr/.

 Since 1987: Member of the Belgian-Dutch Insurance Association (Belgisch

Nederlands Verzekeringsrechtelijk Genootschap) and Secretary of the Belgian

Committee.

Awards

 Holder of the TPR-Wisselleerstoel 2000-2001, research secondment at the Vrije

Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Law, Section Private Law, Chaired by Prof. Dr.

C.C. van Dam.

 BAEF Fellow (Hoover Fellow) (1983-1984).

 Promotor of the MSc thesis of Dries Neels (entitled: Jongeren en de familiale

verzekering: zijn jongeren voldoende beschermd?), defended at KU Leuven; AFI

thesis prize (1,000 euro) in July 2014 for the best MSc thesis in insurance.

Editorial board of scientific journals

 Since 2017: Member Editorial Board AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance

Law and Regulation

 Since 2012: Member Editorial Board EJCCL - European Journal of Commercial

Contract Law.

 Since 2000: Member Editorial Board RW - Rechtskundig Weekblad.

 Since 1999: Member Editorial Board Tweetalige Wetboeken Story, Wetboek van

Koophandel, sector Ondernemingsrecht - Codes Bilingues Story, Code de

commerce, Droit commercial.

 Since 1999: Member Editorial Board Verzekeringen: Artikelsgewijze Commentaar met

overzicht van Rechtspraak en rechtsleer.

 Since 1987: Member Editorial Board Revue belge droit du Commerce - Tijdschrift

voor Belgisch Handelsrecht -TBH.

 1999-2002: Member Editorial Board AJT-Algemeen Juridisch Tijdschrift.

 1988-1996: Member Editorial Board Revue Droit de la Consommation-Tijdschrift

Consumentenrecht -DCCR).

Bibliography

See: http://lirias.kuleuven.be/cv?Username=U0016487.