Tom Ruys

• Senior Member of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KULeuven

Contact Data

• Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies
  KU Leuven
  Huis De Dorlodot
  Charles Deberiotstraat 34 - bus 3005
  B-3000 Leuven
• Telephone +32 16 32 53 84
• Fax +32 16 37 35 47
• E-mail: tom.ruys@law.kuleuven.be

Short Bio

Dr. Tom Ruys studied law and international relations at the universities of Ghent (Ma. Law; Ba. Political Science), Nottingham (LLM Public International Law) and Leuven (Master in Conflict and Sustainable Peace Studies). From 2004 to 2009 he worked as full-time doctoral fellow (FWO-aspirant) at the Institute for International Law at the University of Leuven. He was a visiting researcher at Yale Law School in Spring 2008 and defended his doctoral thesis in Leuven in 2009 (T. Ruys, 'Armed Attack' and Article 51 UN Charter (Cambridge: CUP) (2010), 585 p.).

Tom is currently practising law at the Brussels Bar (Stibbe, PG European and Competition Law). He is also an affiliated member of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and teaches the course on 'Public International Law' at the University of Leuven.