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International Law in Domestic Courts & Enforcement Proceedings

Select cases

  • Counsel to Yukos in attachment proceedings and before the Belgian Constitutional Court on the enforcement of the arbitral award in Yukos v. Russian Federation
  • Lead counsel to Gécamines in FG Hemisphere Associates v. DRC and Gécamines in various proceedings in France, before the courts of Jersey and the Privy Council: alter ego doctrine
  • Counsel to the Kingdom of Belgium in Mukeshimana a.o. v. Belgium before the Belgian courts: tort liability regarding the Rwanda genocide, alleged omissions of the Belgian State and Belgian blue helmets
  • Counsel to the Belgian State in Touax and Touax Rom v. Belgium. Proceedings in the Belgian courts on a claim for damages regarding Belgium’s participation in the NATO air strikes in Kosovo

Select conferences and publications

  • “’Immunity and the Exercise of Jurisdiction – Indirect Impleading and Exequatur”, in: The Cambridge Handbook on Immunities and International Law, Tom Ruys & Nicolas Angelet, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2019, 81-104
  • Immunity from Execution and Domestic Procedural Rules: Preventive Control, Burden of Proof, and Discovery”, in: The Cambridge Handbook on Immunities and International Law, Tom Ruys & Nicolas Angelet, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2019, 379-388 (with Mathias Audit and Maria-Clara Van den Bossche)
  • “Free Circulation of Judgments and the Immunity Obstacle”, University of Ghent Bicentennial Conference, Freedom under Pressure, 7-8 December 2017
  • “Le pouvoir judiciaire face aux dispositions législatives incorporant des règles de la coutume internationale”, Revue belge de droit international, 2012/2, 105-115