Joris Larik is Associate Professor of Comparative, EU and International Law at Leiden University. Since July 2025, he is the Director of Education of Leiden University College The Hague. In addition, he teaches at the Europa Institute of Leiden Law School and the College of Europe. Dr. Larik is an expert in the legal aspects of EU external relations law and global governance, on which he also regularly provides high-level policy advice and media commentary. In 2022, he was appointed to the Committee on European Integration of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV).

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Biography

Joris Larik is Associate Professor of Comparative, EU and International Law at Leiden University. Since July 2025, he is the Director of Education of Leiden University College The Hague – Leiden University’s international honours college. In addition, he teaches at the Europa Institute of Leiden Law School and the College of Europe.

Dr. Larik’s is an expert in the legal aspects of EU external relations and global governance. He is the author and editor of several books, including with Oxford and Cambridge University Press. He is co-editor of the leading EU External Relations Law: Text, Cases and Materials. He has published in renowned international journals, including American Journal of International Law, Common Market Law Review, European Journal of International Law, European Law Review, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, Journal of European Integration, Survival, and Yearbook of European Law, and in prominent national journals, including Nederlands Juristenblad, Nederlands tijdschrift voor Europees recht (NtEr) and SEW–Tijdschrift voor Europees en economisch recht.

Dr. Larik regularly provides high-level policy advice and media commentary. In 2022, he was appointed to the Committee on European Integration of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV). In addition, he is co-founder of the Global Governance Innovation Network (GGIN). His national media appearances include NPO Radio 1, Het Parool, Trouw, and Volkskrant. Internationally, he has appeared on Al Jazeera, BBC World Service, CBC News, Radio New Zealand, and VRT Radio 1, and in EU Observer, Forbes, The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Hill, and Xinhua.

Dr Larik holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute (EUI), an M.A. from the College of Europe, an LL.M. from Leiden Law School, and a B.A. from the Zentrum für Internationale Studien, TU Dresden.

Board Memberships

• Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER) (member of the Governing Board)
• Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations (Global Forum Editor)
• Netherlands Yearbook of International Law (Editor)

Awards, Grants & Fellowships (selection)

• Subsidy from The Hague Municipality for a series of joint Ph.D. workshops on “Peace, Justice and Europe in the Age of Geopolitics”, with the T.M.C. Asser Institute (2024)
• Prize for Transformative Futures in Peace and Security of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (2023)
• Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) Research Fellowship (2020/21)
• Canadian Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces funded RWE-CAF Research Network (2020)
• Leiden Global Interactions Breed Grant (2018/19)
• Fulbright-Schuman Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. (2017/18)
• MOOC Production Fellowship from the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (2013–14) 

PhD Supervision

Dr Larik is available to supervise PhD students in the areas of:

• EU external relations law and comparative foreign relations law
• Global governance and international (institutional) law

Courses

• The Union in the World (LLM European Law)
• Foreign Relations Law (LUC The Hague)
• Constitutions and Constitutionalism in a Globalizing World (LUC The Hague)
• Comparative Legal and Economic Integration (LUC The Hague)
• Introduction to the EU as a Global Legal Actor (College of Europe)
• Comparative Foreign Relations Law and Democratic Accountability (Duke-Leiden Institute for Global and Transnational Law)

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