Jan Wouters

Jan Wouters is Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam European Union (EU) and Global Governance, and founding Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and of the Institute for International Law at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). He is also President of the Council for International Policy of KU Leuven. As Visiting Professor at Sciences Po (Paris), Luiss University (Rome) and the College of Europe (Bruges) he teaches EU external relations law. As Adjunct Professor at Columbia University (SIPA), he teaches on the EU, the US and international human rights. As Visiting Professor to the Universities of Ottawa and Trento in the Spring of 2019, he taught global and regional perspectives on international law; as Visiting Professor at Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) in September 2019, he teaches EU external relations law. As Of Counsel with Linklaters he has been working more than 20 years as an attorney at the Brussels Bar. He is a Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts.

His most recent books include The Law of EU External Relations (2nd ed. 2015), China, the EU and the Developing World (2015), Global Governance of Labour Rights (2015), Global Governance Through Trade (2015), The Contribution of International and Supranational Courts to the Rule of Law (2015), Global Governance and Democracy (2015), Armed Conflicts and the Law (2016), Judicial Decisions on the Law of International Organizations (2016), Internationaal Recht in Kort Bestek (2nd ed. 2017), Research Handbook on EU Energy Law and Policy (2017), Commercial Uses of Space and Space Tourism (2017), The Commons and a New Global Governance (2018), EU Human Rights and Democratization Policies (2018), International Law: a European Perspective (2018), The G7, Anti-Globalism and the Governance of Globalization (2018), The Faces of Human Rights (2019), Changing Borders in Europe (2019), General Principles of Law and the Coherence of International Law (2019) and Parliamentary Cooperation and Diplomacy in EU External Relations (2019).