Stephan Wyckaert is associate professor (ULB, division of legal studies in Mons) and attorney-at-law. He studied at
the University of Ghent where he graduated in Law (1985 , magna cum laude ) and
Criminology (1987 , magna cum laude ). He was trainee barrister at the bar of
Ghent in the Verstringhe law firm and partner in De Budt & Wyckaert and,
from 1995 until 1998, in Callant & Partners. He also participated in the
1997 Grotius Project on international legal cooperation (funded by the European
Commission) and is alumnus of the Institute for Humane Studies Europe (since
1998 : Institute for Economic Studies).
On June 12th, 2003 he became
LL.D. (doctor of laws) with a dissertation on the concept of administrative
regularisation. Currently he is a lawyer in Brussels, member of the Public Law
Department at Janson Baugniet, the oldest full-service law firm in Belgium. He
also lectures at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Division for Legal Studies in Mons).
Stephan Wyckaert has
given lectures in Belgium and abroad, most of them about public law and/or
freedom-related issues. He is author of a large number of articles on public law
issues. He has organized or participated in several international projects and
seminars. He is also member of the editorial board of "Chroniques de droit
public - Publiekrechtelijke Kronieken", one of the very few law reviews that
obtained an "A" ranking from the Flemish Interuniversitary Council.
His
main interests are :
-ethics and administration
-philosophy of law
-property rights and land management law
-poublic-private
partnerships
-private security issues
-constitutional law
-European
law
-legislative matters and public affairs
-law and
language
-political and administrative evolutions, mainly in Eastern
Europe
Stephan Wyckaert is a regular guest at events of the
Institute for
Economic Studies, the
European Ludwig von Mises Institute, the
Murray Rothbard Institute,
the
Libertarian Centre Netherlands, athe
Libertarian Alliance U.K. The U.K. Liberty League,the
International Society for Individual Liberty and
Libertarian International.
Stephan is a supporter of the
Jarret B. Wollstein Manifesto ("In pursuit of Liberty") and of the
Andrew Bernstein Declaration ("On the principles and possibilities of Capitalism").
You can download his full C.V. (in French)
here.
Stephan's
favourite movie is "Casablanca", produced by Hal Wallis and directed by
Michael Curtiz.
He
is equally fond of "V for Vendetta" by James McTeigue, "War and Peace"
by King Vidor, "The seven samurai" by Akira Kurosawa (as well as its
"American" adaptation, "The Magnificent Seven" by John Sturges"), and
"Fiddler on the roof" by Norman Jewison.
Allthough his beliefs are minarchistic and
libertarian, he admires the life and the work of Emperor Napoleon I of France and
of general Charles de Gaulle, president of the Fifth Republic.
He
likes the plays of Shakespeare, the books of Max Gallo and Fjodor
Dostojevsky, the fiction works of Ayn Rand and
Robert Heinlein, the music of Haendel, Bach and Mozart, but also of
Elton John, the Beatles, the Stones, good jazz, good rock & roll
(sorry for not agreeing with you Theodore Dalrymple) and all Motown
music, and the
operas
of Giuseppe Verdi and GIacomo Puccini. Would you ask him which was his
most
unforgettable travel experience, then he would undoubtedly answer the
visit to the Holy Land and the
City of Jerusalem, in 1996, with the Bar Association of Ghe
nt.
