Background
He was born in Ghent as son of Professor Jules Storme and Maria Bosteels.
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Marcel Storme
Edit Profilelawyer politician Senator of Belgium
Education
He studied law at the University of Ghent and further in Paris and London, and wrote his habilitating thesis on the burden of proof (De bewijslast in het Belgisch privaatrecht, 1961).
Career
He went to school in the Sint-Barbaracollege in Ghent (Rhetorica 1947). He is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Antwerp and the University of Ghent, where he held the Chair in Civil Procedure. Juris h. c. Lublin University and honorary professor Beijing University.
Achievements
Membership
He was a member of the Belgian Senate for the Christelijke Volkspartij (Christian People's Party) (co-opted) from 1977 to 1981. He is a former president and member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, former president of the Vlaamse Juristenvereniging (Flemish Association of Lawyers) (1983–1996), president of the International Association of Procedural Law and of the Interuniversity Centre for procedural law, Chairman of the Commission for the Approximation of Procedural Law in Europe, doctor
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Born
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Died
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Nationality
Belgium -
Political Party
Christian Democratic Party