Professor Dr. Bouckaert is Professor at the Law school of the University of Ghent and an associate Professor at the University of Paris IX and Aix-Marseille. He is director of the Department of General Jurisprudence. He is a lecturer at the Institute for Humane Studies, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. His main fields of interests are the economic analysis and the history of property institutions, the general theory of sources of law, zoning law.