Background
GANSHOF, Viscount was born in 1900 in Bruges.
GANSHOF, Viscount was born in 1900 in Bruges.
King"s College, Wimbledon, England, Royal Athenaeum, Bruges, and University of Paris and Brussels.
Professor, of Constitutional Law 1938, European Law 1958, Comparative Law 1960, University of Brussels. President Institute of European Studies, Brussels, and Inter-University Centre of Public Law. President Inter-University Centre of Comparative Law.
Judge Advocate-General 1940.
Served in Belgian Army in both World Wars. Lieutenant-General; High Commissioner for Security of the Realm 1943.
Minister of General Affairs in Africa 1960. Judge ad hoc, Institute Court of Justice, the Hague 1960-1968.
Attorney-General 1968.
Vice-President European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg since 1973. Lecturer, Hague Academy, of Institute Law 1975. Francqui Chairman, University Louvain 1975.
Honorary Bencher Gray’s Inn, London.
Commander Legion of Merit (United States of America), Commander Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur"honneur, Grand Officier.
Supreme Court of Justice since 1947. Academy Institute de Droit compart, Academy Royale des Sciences d’Outremer, Academy Royale des Lettres et des Sciences de Belgique.
Married Elizabeth Orts in 1923.