Background
Gerd Rosewick was born on September 17, 1961. His documented formative years connect him with Liège, a French-speaking city in eastern Belgium, where he later pursued university studies.
Gerd Rosewick was born on September 17, 1961. His documented formative years connect him with Liège, a French-speaking city in eastern Belgium, where he later pursued university studies.
Rosewick studied at the University of Liège, earning a Lie. Doctor qualification in 1984.
The University of Liège was founded in 1817 under King William I of the Netherlands as a French-language institution of higher learning. It was designated a state university in 1835, after Belgian independence.
Its Faculty of Law was one of the four original faculties created with the university. During the 1980s the faculty moved to the Sart Tilman campus, as most university departments did, and the Liège law faculty developed a strong European law tradition; five of its professors were later appointed as judges of the European Court of Justice.
Rosewick was admitted to the bar in Liège in 1984. He worked as a partner of Bernard Spinoit in legal practice.
In Belgium, a lawyer admitted to a bar belongs to the local professional body of a judicial district, which regulates the profession and admits its members to practice before the courts within that district. The Liège bar was the body to which Rosewick's 1984 admission applied.