Paul Demaret

Paul Demaret (Ostend, 24 September 1941) is a university professor and former rector of the College of Europe, located in Bruges (Belgium) and Natolin (Poland).

Paul Demaret

Biography

Demaret holds a PhD in law from the University of Liège, an LL.M. from Columbia Law School and a JSD from UC Berkeley. He defended his doctorate of law at the University of Liège.

He was Professor of Law (ordinary until 2003, extraordinary 2003-2006) at the University of Liège, where he held the Jean Monnet Chair in European Economic Law, and was the Director of the Institut d'Etudes Juridiques Européennes Fernand Dehousse.

At the College of Europe he was Director of Legal Studies from 1981 till 2003. He became rector in 2003, succeeding to Robert Picht.

He was a Robert Schuman Professor at Peking University Law School (EU-China Higher Education cooperation programme) in 1999 and he served on two WTO panels.

His teaching subjects included:

From November 2008 until June 2009, Demaret served as member of a six-member panel of EU experts advising the Bulgarian government. Set up by Bulgaria's Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev, the advisory board was chaired by Dominique de Villepin and mandated to recommend ways to help the country adjust to EU membership.[1]

Publications

His publications are mainly in the fields of

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Preceded by
Robert Picht
(rector ad interim)
Rector of the College of Europe
2003-
Succeeded by
Jörg Monar
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