1930) used to be a university law professor, lecturing on the topic of Civil Procedure, and a member of the Belgian Senate (1977–1981) for the Flemish Christian Democrats.

Storme also studied at Yale University in New Haven, completing a Master of Arts in philosophy (1982) as a Graduate Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation.

He received his doctorate on contract law under professor Walter van Gerven, a former advocate-general to the Court of Justice of the European Communities in Luxembourg.

He also brought a case in 2007, before the Constitutional Court that seeks to overturn Belgian laws that he claims are limiting the exercise of freedom of speech.

[1] Other cases before the Constitutional Court concern the introduction of same-sex marriage, modification of electoral laws, the protection of the professional privilege of lawyers against EU-legislation, etc.

In his doctoral thesis on Good faith, he developed the theory of "burdens" (lasten) inspired by the German doctrine of Obliegenheiten.

He is editor in chief (originally with Ewoud Hondius, since 2016 with André Janssen) of the European Review of Private Law, of which he was one of the founders in 1991.

He is also member of the Board of Editors of the main private law journal in Belgium, the Tijdschrift voor Privaatrecht, and since 2014 one of the 2 directors of that review.

The Prize was awarded earlier to Luuk van Middelaar and to Ayaan Hirsi Ali and afterwards to senator Alain Destexhe (2006) and writer and journalist Derk Jan Eppink (2007).

[3] He lectured at several international law conferences (in Coimbra, New Orleans, Rouen, Groningen, Utrecht, Athens, Jerusalem, Budapest, Trento, Lille, Stellenbosch, Maastricht, Poitiers, Freiburg, Lleida, Salzburg, Porto, Trier, Luzern, Münster, Tartu, etc.).

In 2000, he delivered the opening speech of the Bar at Mechelen, pleading for a devolution of the judicial system from the federal state to the autonomous communities.

In 2004, a few days after the conviction of three organisations of the Vlaams Blok party for "the incitement of hate and discrimination" by the Ghent Court of Appeal, Storme told a journalist of newspaper "De Morgen" that "because all so-called democratic parties had supported the freedom-killing antiracism statute, it was nearly a moral duty for every freedom-loving Fleming to vote for the Vlaams Blok in the next election."