Wim Decock, professor of law at ULiège and UCLouvain, has been awarded the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for his contributions to the historical links between religion, law and capitalism. He receives this award along with his colleague Vanessa Ogle, professor of history at Yale University, and Margaret Robert, a political scientist at the University of California at San Diego, who is awarded the Max Planck-Humboldt Prize 2022.
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rofessor of Roman law, legal history and comparative law at ULiège and UCLouvain, Wim Decock, is considered one of the leading historians of his generation in the field of law and late scholasticism. He has just been awarded the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal 2022 for his work at the intersection of legal history, theology and the history of economic thought. In his book "Theologians and Contract Law " he explores the intersections of legal and economic history and theology. This book is one of the most important recent contributions to the legal history of modern European contract law.
The Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award and Max Planck-Humboldt Medal 2022 ceremony was held in Berlin on November 3, 2022.
The Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation annually award the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Prize, endowed with 1.5 million euros, to a foreign researcher. This award is supplemented by a personal prize of 80,000 euros. The focus is on individuals whose work is characterized by outstanding future potential. The prize is intended to encourage particularly innovative scientists working abroad to spend flexible periods of time at a German university or research institute. Funding is provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
The prize is awarded annually on a rotating basis between the natural and engineering sciences, the life sciences and the humanities and social sciences. In addition, up to two other persons may each receive a Max Planck-Humboldt Medal. The medal is endowed with a personal prize of 60,000 euros.
A new study at ULiège and a call to established entrepreneurs and young entrepreneurs in student incubators
Prof. David Lyden (Weill Cornell Medical College) inaugurated at ULiège the series of lectures and meetings in Belgium on The pre-metastatic nice concept.
A look back at the honor bestowed on Lisette Lombé on Thursday April 9 at ULiège.
