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International Immunities & Diplomatic Law

Select cases

  • Counsel to Yukos in attachment proceedings and before the Belgian Constitutional Court regarding immunity issues arising from the enforcement of the arbitral award in Yukos v. Russian Federation
  • Counsel to the Kingdom of Spain on immunity issues arising before the Belgian courts (until 2018)
  • Counsel before the Belgian courts in numerous enforcement proceedings of investor-State arbitral awards
  • Counsel to the European Space Agency before the Belgian courts on immunity issues and the relationship between international immunities and the right of access to court

Select conferences and publications

  • “Le régime des immunités et inviolabilités diplomatiques et consulaires”, in : Mathias Forteau and Pierre Bodeau-Livinec, Manuel du droit des immunités, Paris, Pedone (forthcoming)
  • Tom Ruys & Nicolas Angelet, eds., The Cambridge Handbook on Immunities and International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 720 p.
  • “Free Circulation of Judgments and the Immunity Obstacle”, University of Ghent Bicentennial Conference, Freedom under Pressure, 7-8 December 2017
  • “Heads of Diplomatic Missions”, in : R. Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012
  • “Consular Treaties”, in: R. Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012