ETL co-editor Eric Van Hooydonk receives prestigious François Genicot price



The Fondation François Génicot awarded its three-yearly prize for a meritorious publication in the area of maritime and commercial law to Prof. Dr. Eric Van Hooydonk for his impressive trilogy ‘De Maritieme Canon van Vlaanderen’, an encyclopaedic overview of the maritime history of Flanders from prehistory to the present.
The award and the money prize associated with it were solemnly handed over to Prof. Van Hooydonk by the Fondation’s Guy Van Doosselaere and Henri Voet at a function organised by the Belgian Maritime Law Association on 23October 2025.
Next to guest professor at the Maritime Institute of Ghent University and attorney-at-law in Antwerp, Eric Van Hooydonk is co-editor of ETL.
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