Dave De ruysscher

Dave De ruysscher (MA, LLM, PhD) is legal historian and lawyer. He publishes on the history of commercial and contract law until the present day. The focus of his research is on early-modern commercial law, in particular on commercial paper (e.g. bills of exchange), marine insurance, partnership (companies) and bankruptcy. As of 2010, he is appointed lecturer at the Department of Interdisciplinary Legal Studies (Faculty of Law and Criminology) of the VUB. He is also part-time postdoctoral researcher of the Fund of Scientific Research – Flanders, at the University of Antwerp.