John Vervaele was honored Master of Laws (J.D./LL.M) and
Master in Criminology (MA) at the University of Ghent (Belgium).
Between 1980 and 1985 he was assistant researcher in criminal law
and criminal procedural law at the University of Antwerp (Belgium).
From 1985 till 1987 he was senior researcher at the Belgian
Ministry of Justice. In 1987 he left for the Dutch Institute for
Social and Economic Law Research (NISER) at the University of
Utrecht. Following the successful defense of his doctorate thesis
in 1988 he was in 1990 appointed Assistant Professor in criminal
law and criminal procedure and secured the prestigious PIONIER
subsidy of the Dutch Council for Scientific Research for the
'Enforcement of European Law' project (1991-1997). He established
in 1991 the Centre for Enforcement of European Law at the
University of Utrecht and was subsequently appointed
Professor/Director in Law Enforcement and European Integration in
1992. Since 1996 he is also Professor in Economic and Financial
Criminal Law at the University of Utrecht. From 2003 on he is
vice-dean and director of research of the Utrecht Law School. In
2006 he was nominated vice-president of Utrecht University for
Latin America.
He is regularly teaching as visiting professor in foreign
universities, in Europe and overseas, mostly topics touching upon
economic and financial criminal law and European criminal law. He
has been teaching as a visiting Professor at Universities in Italy
(Rome, Parma, Trento), in Spain (San Sebastian, Salamanca), in
Switzerland (Freiburg), in Belgium (Liège), in Colombia (Bogotà,
Ibague), in Mexico (D.F) and in the United States (Columbia Law
School in New York and American University in Washington DC). From
2014 he is President and Director of the Scientific Committee of
the AIDP, the world organization for Criminal Sciences with
consultative status with the United Nations and Council of Europe.
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