Lucia Grisar is a Belgian lawyer born in 1944 in Tienen, Flemish Brabant. She received a licentiate in law from the University of Brussels in 1980, the year her admission to the Belgian bar is recorded, and works as a partner at ASSOC I A TES.
Background
Lucia Grisar was born in 1944 in Tienen, a town in central Belgium within the Flemish-speaking province of Flemish Brabant. Tienen, known in French as Tirlemont, developed as a commercial and industrial centre, and its major beet-sugar refining industry has long shaped the local economy.
The town has a long history of sieges, and in 1831 it was the scene of the last fighting in the struggle for Belgian independence. At the time of her birth, Tienen lay in the undivided province of Brabant, which was split in 1995 into Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant.
Education
Grisar received a licentiate in law, abbreviated Lie. Juris, from the University of Brussels in 1980. The same year appears in her record as the date of her admission to the Belgian bar.
The Free University of Brussels was founded on 20 November 1834 by the lawyer and liberal politician Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen, as a secular response to a Catholic university planned at Mechelen. Its principle of free inquiry rejected dogma in teaching and research. The institution existed until 1969, when it divided along linguistic lines into the French-speaking Université libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Career
Grisar's documented professional life centres on the law. Her documented position is that of partner at ASSOC I A TES, and her professional standing rests on her admission to the Belgian bar in 1980.
In Belgium, lawyers belong to local bar orders that admit members and regulate the profession. The Brussels bar was founded by decree on 14 December 1810, and in 1984 it was divided into a French-speaking and a Dutch-speaking order, reflecting the country's linguistic division.
