Erik Van den Haute is professor in contract law, in European private and comparative law and in Dispute resolution international contracts at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) where he graduated in 1995 (licence en droit), 1996 (licence en droit économique) and 2008 (PhD). He also teaches international business law (KU Leuven). He is the author of a fundemantal treaty on contract law (Traité des contrats spéciaux, 2200 pages) published in 2024 and of numerous articles in Belgian and international journals & books. Since 2022, he is the director of the Institute for private law (Centre de droit privé) at the faculty of law (ULB).

Erik VAN DEN HAUTE is founder and co-director of the Executive Master in International Business Law in Phnom Penh (Royal University of Law & Economics). As an attorney in law, he has been practising over more than 20 years at the Bruxelles Bar and several times as an arbitrator. He has pleaded in several countries. Erik VAN DEN HAUTE is also a founding member of the Academy for private european law (Salzburg, Austria), as well as a founding member of the Association “ Groupe de Travail Contrats Internationaux”. He has been working several times as expert for the Belgian government and assisted the government in the elaboration of new legislation (class-actions, mortgage backed loans) and worked as an externale expert on the reform of the Civil Code. Since january 2024, Erik Van den Haute is a member of the Supreme Council of the Judiciary (Conseil supérieur de la Justice ) in Belgium.

–Harmonisation européenne du crédit hypothécaire : perspectives de droit comparé, de droit international et européen, LSB. ULB-COLLEC, 2010

–Le droit des obligations dans les jurisprudences française et belge, Collection de l’Académie de droit privé européen t.1, 2013

–Les obligations contractuelles en pratique: Questions choisies LSB. ULB-COLLEC, 2015

–Contrats spéciaux: La vente, LSB, 2018

-Company Law

-Private International Law