Sofie Cools appointed Professor at the University of Leuven
Sofie Cools, senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, has been appointed professor of corporate law at the University of Leuven (Belgium) as of 1 October, 2019. There, she will also be co-director of the Jan Ronse Institute for Company and Financial Law.
Prof. Dr. Sofie Cools studied law at the University of Leuven and at Harvard. After five years as an attorney in the Brussels office of Cleary Gottlieb, she was a doctoral researcher at the University of Leuven and at Harvard. Since 2014, she has been a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, where she has headed the Belgium-Netherlands unit since 2016. In 2019, she was also a part-time guest professor of corporate law at the University of Leuven.
For her research in the field of corporate law, comparative law and economic analysis of law, Sofie Cools has been awarded multiple major prizes (the Fernand Collin Prize for Law, the Prix Pierre Coppens, the Irving Oberman Memorial Award at Harvard and the Ius Commune Prize).
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