Bart Wauters is Associate Professor of Legal Thought and European Legal History at IE University since 2011.

He obtained his Ph.D at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and his doctoral dissertation was awarded the Frans Van Cauwelaert Prize by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.

His current research deals with the history of legal thought, more in particular the history of the concepts of ownership, strict liability, ius gentium and natural law.