On inviting personalities with an international reputation to bestow their teaching wealth, their knowledge and their expertise to Liège students, the David-Constant Chair is inscribed within the Faculty's projects, supported by the David-Constant Fund, aimed at offering the University of Liège and its teaching and research in the legal domains a larger international opening.

David-Constant Chair 2010 - Professor Michel Grimaldi

The David-Constant Chair has this year been awarded to Professor Michel Grimaldi, a Doctor in Law and a Professor at the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), and Honorary President of the Henri Capitant Association of the Friends of French Legal Culture.

Spending time in our Faculty from November 16 to 20, Professor Grimaldi spent a very intense Liège week, at the end of which he had given five lessons, by taking part in different courses in civil law for the five years of the Bachelors and Masters in Law, a lecture, met the Faculty's assistant doctoral students and participated in two half days of the Capitant Association's academic meetings.

There were two major highlights during this week's programme:

• A formal lesson called ‘Towards better legal protection for vulnerable people' aimed at 3rd year students in the Bachelors in Law, which took place in the Academic Hall on November 16 (see the photos).
• A lecture on the ‘Act of the Lawyer' on November 17, with the participation of Professors G. de Leval, Alain Deliège and Didier Matray (see the photos).
  

Complete programme of the Grimaldi Chair.

Professor Grimaldi thus succeeded Antoine Garapon, magistrate and the Secretary General of the Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice à Paris, the first holder of the David-Constant Chair in November 2008.