Cedric Ryngaert

• Prof. Cedric Ryngaert
  Faculty of Law, KU Leuven

Contact Data

• Tiensestraat 41, lokaal DV3.02.17
  3000 Leuven
• Telephone +32 485 40 53 55
• E-mail: cedric.ryngaert@law.kuleuven.be

Curriculum Vitae

Associate Professor of International Law, Leuven University (tenure); Associate Professor of International Law, University of Utrecht (tenure).

Born in Kortrijk (Belgium) on 22 August 1978.

Cedric Ryngaert (1978) studied law at Leuven University (1996-2001), where he also obtained his PhD in 2007 (on jurisdiction in international law, under the supervision of Prof. dr. Jan Wouters). He was visiting researcher at Harvard Law School in 2005, and assistant district prosecutor in Leuven in 2006.

Cedric has lectured at Leuven University since 2006 and at Utrecht University since 2007. He holds a tenured position at both universities.

Cedric has taught courses on public international law, the law of international organizations, and the law of armed conflicts.

Cedric is rapporteur of the ILA Committee on non-state actors, chair of an international research project on non-state actors, member of the Dutch School of Human Rights Research, the Ius Commune Research School, the COST Action on human rights, and vice-president of the Flemish UN Association (VVN). He is also managing editor of Wereldvisie (an Acco/VVN book series on international law and policy), editor of Human Rights and International Legal Discourse and the Utrecht Law Review, correspondent for Wereldbeeld, and he coordinates the Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts for Belgium.

In 2012, Cedric won the five-yearly Henri Rolin prize (international law and international relations) for his work on jurisdiction.

Cedric’s main research interests are: non-state actors in international law, the law of international organizations, the interplay between human rights and general international law, international criminal law and post-conflict justice, jurisdiction and immunities, and the role of domestic courts in the implementation of international law.
 

Recent research projects

• Non-state actors in international law (WOG FWO-Vlaanderen, 2008-2013; International Law Association, 2008-2014)
• Non-state actors in international law (VENI NWO, Nederland, 2010-2013)
• Non-state actors in international law (BOF postdoc, K.U. Leuven, 2008-2010)
• The international prosecutor (WOG FWO-Vlaanderen, 2005-2010)
• Member State responsibility for acts of international organizations (FWO-Vlaanderen, project, 2012-2016, 1 PhD researcher)
• International law in domestic courts: rule of law reform in post-conflict states (COST, 2007-2011)
• Business and human rights challenges in conflict zones (COST, 2008-2012)
   

Some publications

• C. RYNGAERT, Jurisdiction in International Law, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, xxiii + 241 pp.
• C. RYNGAERT (ed.), The Effectiveness of International Criminal Justice, Antwerp, Intersentia, 2009, 278 pp.
• M. NOORTMANN & C. RYNGAERT (eds.), Non-State Actor Dynamics in International Law: from Law-Takers to Law-Makers, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2010, 204 pp.
• E. KRISTJANSDOTTIR, A. NOLLKAEMPER, C. RYNGAERT (eds.), International Law in Domestic Courts: Rule of Law Reform in Post-Conflict States, Antwerp, Intersentia, 2012, xiv + 336 pp.
• L. REYDAMS, J. WOUTERS, C. RYNGAERT (eds.), The International Prosecutor, Oxford University Press, 2012