Stephan Parmentier

• Professor of Sociology of Crime, Law and Human Rights

• Head of Department of Criminal Law and Criminology

Contact Data

• Department of Criminal Law and Criminology
  KU Leuven
  Hooverplein 10
  B-3000 Leuven
• Telephone +32 16 32 51 15
• Fax +32 16 32 54 63 
• E-mail: stephan.parmentier@law.kuleuven.be

Short Bio

Stephan Parmentier (1960) studied law, political science and sociology at the K.U.Leuven (Belgium), and sociology and conflict resolution at the Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (U.S.A.). He currently teaches sociology of crime, law and human rights at the Faculty of Law of the K.U.Leuven, and serves as the Head of its Department of Criminal Law and Criminology.

Stephan Parmentier has been a visiting professor at the International Institute for Sociology of Law (Oñati, Spain), the University for Peace (San José, Costa Rica), and the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), and a visiting scholar at the universities of Stellenbosch (South Africa), Oxford (United Kingdom), and New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). He was the editor-in-chief of the Flemish Yearbook on Human Rights since 1998 and currently serves as the co-general editor of the int6ernational book Series on Transitional Justice (Intersentia Publishers, Antwerp). His research interests include political crimes, transitional justice and human rights, and the administration of criminal justice.

He has served as an advisor to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, the Belgian Minister of the Interior, the King Baudouin Foundation, and Amnesty International. Between 1999-2002 he was the vice-chairman of the Flemish section of Amnesty International.

More info: Research, teaching and consultancy in the field of ‘transitional justice and human rights’