Cedric Ryngaert

• Universitair Docent VKR

Contact Data

• Achter Sint Pieter 200
  3512 HT Utrecht
  Nederland
• Telephone +31 30 253 72 02 (b.g.g. 7060)
• Fax +31 30 253 70 73
• E-mail: cedric.ryngaert@law.kuleuven.be

Research

Cedric Ryngaert (1978) studied law at the Catholic University of Leuven (1996-2001, 'licentiaat rechten' magna cum laude). Thereafter, he studied Social Studies and Arts at Atelier Berzona, Locarno (Switzerland) (2001-2002). Cedric is a Belgian national.

Cedric was awarded a Ph.D. research grant from the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research in 2002. From October 2002 through September 2006, he was a research fellow at the Institute for International Law at the Catholic University of Leuven, where he wrote a doctoral dissertation on the law of jurisdiction in public international law under the supervision of prof.dr. Jan Wouters (defended on February 12th, 2007). He did part of this Ph.D. research as a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School’s European Law Research Center (August-December 2005).

Cedric passed the Belgian State exam for magistrate in 2004-2005, and was an assistant district prosecutor in Leuven from October 2006 through December 2006.

He was acting lecturer in public international law at the Catholic University of Leuven in 2006-2007, and is working as a lecturer in public international law at the University of Utrecht since January 1st, 2007. Cedric is a member of the Ius Commune Research School, the Flemish UN Association (VVN), the Working Group International Criminal Tribunals of the Association of Human Rights Institutes (COST28), and the Flemish FWO International Research Project on Prosecutorial Policies of International Criminal Tribunals. He is managing editor of Wereldvisie, an Acco/ VVN book series on international law and policy, and coordinates the Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts for Belgium.