Prof. dr. em. Kristiaan Bernauw

Kristiaan Bernauw was professor of Transport Law (all modes), Insurance and Transport Insurance Law at the Faculty of Law of Ghent University.

He graduated from Ghent University Law School in 1981, holds a Master of Laws degree from the McGill University Institute of Air and Space Law (Montreal, 1986) and obtained a PhD in law at Ghent University in 1996. He was director of the Institute of Transport and Insurance Law at the Faculty of Law, Ghent University. He is auxiliary judge at the Ghent Court of Appeals and practices law at the Bar of Dendermonde. Kristiaan Bernauw holds a commercial pilot’s license, is reserve-officer (rank colonel) serving in the Transport Wing of the Belgian Air Force and fulfilled missions as consultant/expert in transport facilitation for international organizations since 1989.

Kristiaan Bernauw retired on 1 October 2023 and is still affiliated as emeritus professor to the faculty of Law and Criminology.