Background
H.J. Bourgeois, Jacques was born in 1936 in Gent, Belgium.
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Jacques H.J. Bourgeois
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University of Gent (Rijksuniversiteit, Gent) (Doctorate.R. Juris, 1959) (Doctorate.R. Juris, 1959). University of Michigan Law School (Doctorate.R. Juris, 1959). University of Michigan Law School (Master of Comparative Laws Program, 1960).
University of Louvain (Economics, 1959).
Spoken languages: French, English, Dutch, Spanish, German.
Career
Worked at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. Admitted to the bar, 1994, Belgium, Avocat. Civil servant at the Commission of the European Atomic Energy Community (1962-1965).
Member of the Legal Service, subseq. legal adviser at the Commission of the European Communities (1965-1983).
Head of the Trade Policy Instruments Division, Directorate-General, External Relations at the Commission of the European Communities (1983-1987). Principal Legal Adviser at the Commission of the European Communities (1987-1991).
Professor of Law at the College of Europe. Subject presently taught: "The European Commission"s Trade Policy - Legal Aspects" (1974).
Visiting Professor University of Brussels (1973-1977), University of Michigan Law School - Winter Term (1976), Jean Monnet Professor at the University of Bonn Law School (1992-1993), University of Amsterdam, Universidad Autonoma of Barcelona.
Author with Mr. Matsushita "The Role of Competition Law and Policy in the Framework of the World Trade Organization", report for the International Law Association (Helsinki, August 1996). "The Uruguay Rounf of General Agreement of Tariff and Trades: Some General Comments from an European Commission Standpoint" in Emiliou, O"Keefe (eds), The European Union and World Trade Law (John Wiley, Chichester, 1996).
With P. Demaret, "The Working of European Commission Policies on Competition, Industry and Trade: a Legal Analysis" in Buigues, Jacquemin, Sapir (eds), European Policies on Competition, Trade and Industry (East. Elgar, Aldershot, 1995).
Education with F. Berrod and East. Gippini-Fournier, The Uruguay Round Results. A European Lawyer"s Perspective (East.I.P., Brussels, 1995).
