Is professor emeritus of the Faculty of Laws of the Catholic University of Leuven,   Belgium. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Florida, Georgia (USA),   Insead (France), Kentucky, Michigan State (USA), Paris (France), and Sophia (Japan).

At present he is a professor at the Universities of Hasselt and KUBrussel, Belgium and   the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands; and is a member of the Flemish Royal   Academy (1992-).

He has been Dean of the Leuven Faculty of Laws (1984-1988), is Past President of the   International Industrial Relations Association (1986-1989), and has been a member of the Belgian Senate (1987-1989). He is a doctor honoris causa of the University of Szeged, Hungary (1997). He is also Past-President of the International Society of Labour Law and Social Security.


Professor Blanpain is also the editor of the International Encyclopaedia of Labour Law and Industrial Relations 1975 and general editor of the International Encyclopaedia of Laws ( more than 1200 collaborators worldwide), the Bulletin of Comparative Labour Law and of the book Comparative Labour Law and Industrial relations (9th ed. 2007).