Kris has 30 years of experience and is specialized in constitutional and administrative law (government contracts, public procurement, public enterprises, subsidies, energy and environment).

Kris Wauters handles within his field of expertise both constitutional law and administrative law cases. This involves advising and defending public authorities and companies as well as private individuals.

Kris regularly writes on government contract law, public procurement and economic public law. He completed a doctoral thesis at Maastricht University on the subject, which was published under the title: ‘Rechtsbescherming en overheidsovereenkomsten' (Legal protection and government contracts). The thesis addresses the award of public contracts (procurement contracts, domain concessions, public service concessions, PPP etc.) and more in particular the relevant legal protection under Belgian, Dutch, French and EU law. Kris completed in 2014 his second Phd at the University of Glasgow which was published under the title ‘Cooperative agreements between public authorities’ (Intersentia, Antwerp/Cambridge, 2015).

Since 2010 Kris has been appointed as professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain, where he is a member of the public law sector and where he teaches various courses in administrative law (government contracts, economic public law, energy) in French.

He is since 2011 chief editor of the only Belgian Review on public procurement and other government contracts (Marchés et contrats publics).  

He works in Dutch, French and English.

• Representation of the European Commission in a major public procurement case

• Representation of the Belgian State before the Court of Justice and Constitutional Court regarding the prolongation of two nuclear reactors

• Representation of the Flemish Region in more than 30 cases before the Council of State related to public procurement

• Representation of the Belgian State in the Klimaatzaak (climate case)

• Advising the Brussels Region for all constitutional and administrative law matters related to mobility

• Assisting a client in the negotiation and drafting of a mortgage assignment agreement and in obtaining the appropriate license with the FSMA

• Assisting clients in setting up payment instruments in Belgium

• Representation of a major Belgian bank in phishing litigation

Education :

Phd in European public law (University of Glasgow 2014)

Phd in European public law (UMaastricht 2009)

LL.M. in European and International law (UCLouvain 1992)

Master of laws (KUL 1993)

Bar : Brussels

• Commentaire article par article de la (nouvelle) législation sur les marchés publics. Loi du 17 juin 2013, Politeia, Bruxelles, 2022, 289 p.

• « L’impact de la pandémie de COVID-19 sur le droit des marchés publics », in E. Slautsky, F. Bouhon en S. Wattier (eds.), Covid-19 et droit public, pp. 639-666 (with C. Delforge, K. Polet, D. Renders).

• « Marchés publics. Travaux, fournitures, services », in Jurisclasseur : Europe Traité, fasc. 1052, 24 p (with P. Abba).

• “L’acte détachable en matière contractuelle et le Conseil d’État”, in Liber amicorum Paul Alain Foriers, Entre tradition et pragmatisme, Larcier, 2021, pp. 1775 – 1786 (ANDERSEN, R.).

• « PPP : quelques idées pour un régime juridique propre », Marchés publics et privés autour et alentour de la construction : morceaux choisis, Waver, Anthemis, 2021, p. 281 (SAITOVA, E.)

• “Les marchés et les contrats publics dans l’Union Européenne”, JDE, 2021, pp. 346-351 (L. Laperche).

• “De toegang tot een overheidsopdracht als instrument om discriminatie te bestrijden”, in P. Wauthelet et J. Ringelheim (eds.), Redynamiser la lutte contre la discrimination/Nieuwe impulsen voor de strijd tegen discriminatie, à paraître.

• K. Wauters en T. Van Gaal, ‘Toepassingsgebied wetgeving overheidsopdrachten: het mysterie verder ontsluierd”, OoO-MCP, 2022/1, pp. 15-40.

• « Public procurement Review Bodies (including Antifraud Measures) », in Trybus M., Caranta R. et ‎Edelstam G. (eds), EU Public Contract Law – Public Procurement and Beyond, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2014, pp. 341-362.

• Overheidsopdrachten. Totstandkoming, doelstellingen en toepassingsgebied, Mortsel, Intersentia, 2016, 258 pp (Gheysens B.).

• EU Directive 2014/24 on public procurement. A new turn for competition in public markets?, coll. « Dossiers Marchés et contrats publics/Overheidsopdrachten- en overeenkomsten », Bruxelles, Larcier, 2016, 230 pp (Marique Y.).

• Cooperative agreements between public authorities – The influence of CJEU case law on national legal systems, coll. « Ius commune europaeum, Intersentia », Cambridge, Intersentia, 2015, 253 pp.