Coordination Board

Prof. Michael Faure (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam), Chairman of Coordination Board 

Michael G. Faure is Professor of Comparative Private Law and Economics. Michael studied law at the University of Antwerp (1982) and criminology at the University of Gent (1983). He obtained a Master of Laws from the University of Chicago Law School (1984) and a doctor iuris from the Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg im Breisgau. Michael was first a lecturer and then a senior lecturer at the department of criminal law of the law faculty of Leiden University (1988-1999). He became academic director of the Maastricht European Institute for Transnational Legal Research (METRO) and professor of Comparative and International Environmental Law at the law faculty of Maastricht University in September 1991. He still holds both positions today. In addition, Michael is academic director of the Ius Commune Research School. Since 1982 he is attorney at the Antwerp Bar.
Michael Faure teaches Environmental Law and Economics and European Law and Economics. He publishes in the areas of environmental (criminal) law, tort and insurance and economic analysis of (accident) law.

Prof. Luigi Alberto Franzoni  (University of Bologna), Mundus Coordinato

Luigi Franzoni (1965) earned a D.Phil. in Economics at Nuffield College, Oxford. He has been Full Professor of Public Economics  at the University of Bologna since 2003. His research fields include the economics of IP and tax enforcement. He is a member of Steering Committee of the Italian Association of Law and Economics, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Law and Economics.