Walter Pintens#
| Membership Number: | 4418 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 Secretary General International Commission on Civil Status (until 2014)
- 2012 Professor emeritus University of Leuven
- 1994 Honorary Professor Saarland University
- 1992 Elected by Belgian Parliament as member of the High Council of Justice
- 1987 Honorary Justice of the Peace
- 1985 Ordinary Professor University of Leuven
- 1984 Extraordinary Professor University of Leuven
- 1983 Lecturer Saarland University
- 1982 Senior assistant University of Leuven
- 1982 Doctor in Law
- 1978 Research Fellow Belgian Scientific Foundation
- 1977 DAAD- Stipendiat (Universities of Tübingen and Munich)
Fields of Scholarship
- Family and succession law
- European private law
- Comparative law
- Private international law
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Member Advisory Board Cambridge Family Law Center
- 2015 Doctor honoris causa - University of Regensburg
- 2014 Member Scientific Advisory Board Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
- 2013 Honorary Research Fellow University of South Africa (Pretoria)
- 2013 Visiting Professor University of South Africa (Pretoria)
- 2012 Titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law
- 2012 Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold II
- 2011 Vice-president German Scientific Society for Family Law
- 2010 Visiting professorial fellow - Gonville & Caius College Cambridge
- 2007 Visiting Professor University of Stellenbosch and University of South Africa (Pretoria)
- 2002 Commander of the Order of the Crown
- 2001 Founding Member Commission on European Family Law
- 2001 Visiting Professor - Humboldt University Berlin
- 1996 Visiting Professor - Humbold University Berlin
- 1995 Visiting Professor - University of Freiburg
- 1982 Notarial Prize
