Alain-Laurent Verbeke

Winter & Spring Terms 2013

Visiting Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Family Property Law
• Trusts and Estates
• Contract Law
• Negotiation and Mediation

Appointments

• Full University Professor of Law, University of Leuven (since 1991)
• Director Institute for Family Property Law, Co-director Institute for Contract Law, Co-chair Center for Notary Law
• Co-director LCM, Leuven Center for Collaborative Management (Faculty of Psychology)
• Professor of Law, University of Tilburg (since 1999)
• Professor of Law, UCP Lisbon Global School of Law (since 2008)
• Francqui Chair Professor of Law, University of Brussels, 2010-2011
• Visiting Professor of Law, Winter and Spring Terms 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, and 2013

Practice Information

Professor Verbeke is a Founding Partner with Greenille, a private client law firm with attorneys in Belgium and notaries and attorneys in the Netherlands (www.greenille.eu). On the preventive side, he coaches and facilitates processes of communication and governance in large family businesses. On the conflict side, he is negotiating large inheritance, divorce and contract cases. He is a certified mediator and an arbitrator in national and international (ICC) contract and inheritance cases.

Additional Information

Visiting Professor Verbeke will teach in the Negotiation Workshop during the Winter and Spring Terms 2013.

Representative Publications

• Time Limited Interests in Land (Alain-Laurent Verbeke & C. van der Merwe eds., Cambridge University Press 2012).
  
• Verbeke, Alain-Laurent. "Federalism in Belgium" in Federalism and Legal Unification. A Comparative Empirical Investigation of Twenty Systems 90 (D. Halberstam, M. Reimann & J.A. Sanchez Cordero eds., International Academy of Comparative Law, 2012).
  
• Verbeke, Alain-Laurent & Y.H. Leleu. "Harmonization of the Law of Succession in Europe" in Towards a European Civil Code 459 (Kluwer Law International, 2011).
  
• Mnookin, Robert H. & Alain-Laurent Verbeke. "Persistent Nonviolent Conflict with No Reconciliation: The Flemish and Walloons in Belgium," 72 Law & Contemp. Probs. 151 (2009).
  
• Verbeke, Alain-Laurent & M. Euwema. "Negative and Positive Role Models of Media in the Belgian Conflict: A Model for De-escalation," 93 Marquette Law Review 139 (2009).
  
• Verbeke, Alain-Laurent. "Negotiating [in the shadow of] a European Private Law," 15 Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 395 (2008).