Marc, Baron Bossuyt (born 9 January 1944 in

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) is a member of the

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and a former judge and president at the

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. Bossuyt obtained a Dr.iur (LLM) at the

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in 1968, a ''Certificate of international relations'' at

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in Bologna in 1969, and a PhD in political science from the

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in 1975. He is professor emeritus of

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at the

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. He was appointed to the Constitutional Court by Royal Order on 28 January 1997. From 9 October 2007 until his retirement Bossuyt was the President of the Dutch linguistic group of the Constitutional Court of Belgium. He was ennobled as a baron in the 2009 honours list. Upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70 years, Bossuyt retired from the Court and became President-Emeritus. Bossuyt was a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (2000–2003, 2014–present). In 2020, Marc Bossuyt was appointed as the president of the steering committee of th
Turkey Tribunal
which is an independent "people's tribunal" registered as an NGO in Belgium.

Honours

* 2013: Grand Cordon in the Order of Leopold * 2007: Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Crown.

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Marc Bossuyt
(UA) 1944 births Living people 20th-century Belgian judges Belgian barons Grand Crosses of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) Flemish academics Constitutional Court of Belgium judges Members of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights Members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration Ghent University alumni Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies alumni Academic staff of the University of Antwerp Belgian officials of the United Nations Belgian judges of international courts and tribunals 21st-century Belgian judges {{Belgium-law-bio-stub