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Jan Wouters

Visiting professor, EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies Department

Jan Wouters (BE) is Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance, and Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and the Institute for International Law at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is also Visiting Professor in the Master of Laws in International Economic Law and Policy (LL.M. IELPO, University of Barcelona), in the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA, Venice) and in the Executive Master of European and International Business Law (M.B.L.-HSG, University of Sankt Gallen). He is President of the Flemish Foreign Affairs Council, which advises the Flemish Government, and practises law as Of Counsel at Linklaters, Brussels. He is Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts. He studied law and philosophy in Antwerp and at Yale University (LLM 1990), was a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School and obtained his PhD at the University of Leuven (1996). He taught at the Universities of Antwerp and Maastricht, was Visiting Professor at Liège and Kyushu University and Référendaire at the European Court of Justice (1991-1994).

Jan Wouters is Editor of the International Encyclopedia of Intergovernmental Organizations, Vice-Director of the Revue belge de droit international and editorial board member in ten international journals. He has published widely (around 400 publications, including 35 books and 80 international journal articles). Recently he inter alia (co-)authored Grondlijnen van Internationaal Recht (2005), The World Trade Organization (2007) and Upgrading the EU’s Role as Global Actor (2011) and (co-)edited The European Union and Conflict Prevention (2004), Legal Instruments in the Fight Against International Terrorism (2004), The United Nations and the European Union (2006), Multilevel Regulation and the EU (2008), The Europeanisation of International Law (2008), European Constitutionalism Beyond Lisbon (2009), Belgium in the Security Council (2009) and Accountability for Human Rights Violations by International Organizations (2010).