Our associate Janek Nowak was awarded the Fernand Collin Law Prize on Monday 5 December 2022 for his doctoral thesis ‘Ambtshalve toepassing van EU-recht door de Belgische burgerlijke rechter’ (Ex officio application of EU law by Belgian civil courts), defended at KU Leuven on 19 February 2021.
The biennial Fernand Collin Prize is the most important award for a work written in Dutch on any legal subject at a Belgian university. The award was established in honour of Fernand Collin, professor at KU Leuven and later chairman of Kredietbank, now KBC, and is organised by the University Foundation.
& De Bandt was represented during the ceremony by partner Jeroen Dewispelaere and associate Isaline d’Hoop de Synghem to celebrate this important achievement. Many congratulations Janek!