Marcel Storme (3 August 1930,

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– 30 March 2018) was a

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lawyer, member of the Ghent Bar, and Christian Democratic Party politician. He was the son of Professor Jules Storme and Maria Bosteels. He went to school in the

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in Ghent (Rhetorica 1947). He studied law at the

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and further in

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and

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, and wrote his habilitating thesis on the burden of proof (''De bewijslast in het Belgisch privaatrecht'', 1961). He became Emeritus Professor of Law at the

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and the

, where he held the Chair in Civil Procedure. He was a member of the

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for the CVP (co-opted) from 1977 to 1981. He is a former president and member of the

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, former president of the Vlaamse Juristenvereniging (Flemish Association of Lawyers) (1983–1996), president of the

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and of the Interuniversity Centre for procedural law, Chairman of the Commission for the Approximation of Procedural Law in Europe, dr. jur. h. c.

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and honorary professor Beijing University. He became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991. He was married on 11 July 1956 to Godelieve de Schryver, daughter of Minister of State August de Schryver and had two sons ( Matthias Storme and Pieter Storme, who died young). His publications can be consulted in open access on th
Biblio website of Ghent University

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1930 births 2018 deaths Flemish lawyers Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts Academic staff of the University of Antwerp Jurists from Ghent Politicians from Ghent {{Belgium-law-bio-stub