Piet TaelmanPiet Taelman is a Senior Full Professor at Ghent University Law School (Belgium) and Head of the Department of Interdisciplinary Study of Law, Private Law and Business Law. He teaches courses on Civil Procedure and has written on a wide variet of topics on civil procedural law in national and international journals and book chapters. Piet Taelman served as dean of the Ghent Law School from October 2008 till September 2014. He has been appointed editor of the Civil Procedure Monographs, within the International Encyclopaedia of Laws in 1998. He is a member of the High Council of Justice (2016-2020), a member of the Council of the International Association for Procedural Law (since 2007 onward) and of the Executive Committee of Cepani (Belgian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation). He has been admitted to the Ghent Bar in 1982 and has practised as an attorney and arbitrator during almost the whole of his academic career. Read More Read Less