Jules Stuyck is a senior counsel in Crowell & Moring's Brussels office and is a member of the firm’s Antitrust and Product Risk Management groups. Jules is an experienced litigator, focusing on European competition law, intellectual property, and market practices. He counsels clients on state aid, the customs union, free movement, public procurement, trademark and trade practices law, media law, and environmental law.
Jules is a leading authority on Belgian and European antitrust/competition law, offering more than three decades of experience as a practitioner, government adviser, and law professor. He has advised on European sales law and has on several occasions been invited by the European Parliament’s Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection to offer his perspective on unfair trading practices, consumer law, sales law, and internal market issues.
Chambers Europe recognizes Jules for his “first class strategic legal thinking,” noting his litigation experience and his work in advising clients on transactional and competition law issues.
Representative Matters
- Jules represented the Belgian authorities in the first important follow-on claim for damages against members of a cartel (that had previously been condemned by a Decision of the European Commission).
- Jules acted recently for an important operator of the sharing economy against incumbents that tried to hinder the activity with an action for unfair competition in Belgian courts.
- He represented a Belgian airline in a state aid case triggered in a Belgian court by a competitor.
- He assisted several European agencies before the General Court of the EU in cases regarding public procurement.
Professional Activities and Memberships
Jules is an emeritus professor of top European universities: KU Leuven (Catholic University Leuven) (BE) and Raboud Universiteit Nijmegen (NL). He is a guest professor at Université Panthéon-Assas Paris 2 (FR), and former guest professor at Central European University Budapest (HU). He is also the director and chair of Almancora Société De Gestion SA, a statutory manager of KBC Ancora SCA, and he is chair of the SELDIA (the direct selling association) Code Administrator.
Education
Jules graduated in law from the Catholic University Leuven, where he also obtained his Ph.D on "Aggressive Sales Methods" (a comparative study of the law of the original 6 Member States of the European Community) in 1975.
Speaking Engagements
Jules is regularly invited as a speaker by the Belgian bar association, and by professional and governmental organizations, and universities both in Belgium and abroad.
Publications
Jules is a leading academic in Belgian and EU competition and consumer law. He has many major publications to his name. For more details see Highlights, News & Knowledge.
Education
- Catholic University of Leuven, J.D.
- Catholic University of Leuven, Ph.D
Affiliations
Admitted to practice: in Belgium and before the European Court.
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