Florenz Volkaert

Florenz Volkaert has a PhD in Law from Ghent University. He also completed his undergraduate and master's degrees in law at Ghent University (2016; 2018, summa cum laude) and obtained an LL.M/MSc. in Law and Economics (2018-2019, receiving the award for best student in the program) from the Universität Hamburg, Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research as part of an Erasmus Mundus program. During his law studies in Ghent, he also spent a semester at the University of Waikato (New Zealand), where he won the Law of International Trade Prize.

From 2019 - 2023, Florenz was a PhD Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). His doctoral research examined commercial treaties from 1860 to 1914, an excerpt of which received the 2022 ESIL Young Scholar Prize. He obtained a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Belgian-American Educational Foundation (2023-2024) and is currently researching the history of international cartels and currency unions at Yale Law School and the Yale MacMillan Center. In 2025, Florenz will join the Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve's Lab for Law, History and Society as a Postdoctoral Researcher funded by the F.R.S.-FNRS ("Chargé de Recherches"). His broad research interests are the history of international economic law (trade, cartels, and money), and law and macroeconomics.

Florenz is the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal for Digital Legal History and a member of the Coordinating Committee of the European Society of International Law's Interest Group for the History of International Law.