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Fernand Collin Prize For Law
The Fernand Collin Prize for Law (Dutch: Fernand Collin-prijs voor Recht) was named after Fernand Collin. It is awarded to a scientist who makes a significant Dutch-language contribution to law in Belgium. In 1972 it was awarded to an economist. Awards * 1962 - Walter Van Gerven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): ''Het toegeven van premies in het Klein Europees handelsverkeer'' * 1972 - Willy van Ryckeghem (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University): ''Een econometrische studie van het dynamisch verband tussen inflatie en werkloosheid: een internationale vergelijking'' * 1982 - Marc Maresceau ( Ghent University): ''De directe werking van het Europees gemeenschapsrecht'' * 1984 - Koenraad Lenaerts (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): ''Constitutie en rechter. De rechtspraak van het Amerikaanse Opperste Gerechtshof, het Europese Hof van Justitie en het Europese Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens'' * 1986 - Michel Flamee (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): ''Octrooieerbaarheid van software. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernand Collin
Fernand Collin ( Antwerp, 18 December 1897 – 11 December 1990), was a Belgian businessman. He was president of the Kredietbank from 1938 to 1973 and was also a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven. At the start of World War II, Fernand Collin, together with Alexandre Galopin (Société Générale de Belgique) and Max-Léo Gérard (Banque de Bruxelles) were given a mandate to manage the Belgian economy during the war. Paul-Henri Spaak told them in May 1940 ''Nous vous confions la Belgique'' (E: We trust you with Belgium). He was CEO of the pudding producing company ''Imperial Products'', which merged in 1968 with ' into ''Continental Foods'' (it was sold to Campbell Soup in 1985). In 1962, he published an article in the Yale Law Journal, where in a note on the ''Unit of Account'' he expanded on the idea of a European currency in order to ''revitalize the international money markets''.The Unit of Account: Enforceability under American Law of Maintenance-of-Value Prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |