Jinske Verhellen

Department of Interdisciplinary Study of Law, Private Law and Business Law , Faculty of Law and Criminology

Phone: +32 9 264 68 30
Email: Jinske.Verhellen@UGent.be

Research themes: Migration law, migrants’ rights and legal Identity || Children, youth and families

Jinske Verhellen studied Law and Anthropology. She has always combined these two disciplines in her work, both in academia and in practice (as an attorney, as a staff member of the Ghent City contact point for discrimination reports, etc.). In 2006, Jinske Verhellen had the unique opportunity to help establish the Private International Law Centre in Brussels (now part of the Agentschap Integratie en Inburgering), which gives advice and does policy work in the field of private international law in family matters. In January 2009, she returned to Ghent University, where in 2012 she obtained her doctoral degree on 'The Belgian Code of Private International Law in family matters', an empirical study on the law in practice (financed by the Research Foundation - Flanders). Since 2014, she is Professor of Law at Ghent University, lecturing private international law, international family law and notarial private international law.

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