Joris Larik is Assistant Professor of Comparative, EU and International Law and member of Young Academy Leiden. His research focuses on EU external relations law and global governance and has received several awards. Dr. Larik is the author and editor of several books, including with Oxford and Cambridge University Press. Moreover, he has published in leading international journals, including American Journal of International Law, Common Market Law Review, European Law Review, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, Survival, and Yearbook of European Law, and in leading national journals, including Nederlands Juristenblad and SEW–Tijdschrift voor Europees en economisch recht. Dr. Larik provides high-level legal and policy advice and regularly appears in the international and national media.

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Biography

Joris Larik is Assistant Professor of Comparative, EU and International Law and member of Young Academy Leiden. His research focuses on EU external relations law, global governance and, since 2016, the international legal ramifications of Brexit. His work has been acknowledged with several awards, including NATO’s Manfred Wörner Essay Award and the Mauro Cappelletti Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Comparative Law from the European University Institute.

Dr. Larik is the author and editor of several books, including with Oxford and Cambridge University Press. He has published in leading international journals, including American Journal of International Law, Common Market Law Review, European Foreign Affairs Review, European Law Review, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, Legal Issues of Economic Integration, Survival, and Yearbook of European Law, and in leading national journals, including Nederlands Juristenblad and SEW–Tijdschrift voor Europees en economisch recht.

Dr. Larik has completed several funded research and policy advisory projects and worked on various high-level reports. In 2019, he was appointed secretary (secretaris) of the Expert Group on Political Support for Interstate Use of Force and Humanitarian Intervention by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.

Dr. Larik’s international media appearances include Agence France-Presse, Al Jazeera, BBC World Service, CBC, China Central Television (CCTV), EU Observer, The Guardian, The Hill, The Irish Times, Radio New Zealand, and Xinhua. His national media appearances include NPO Radio 1, Het Parool, Trouw, and Volkskrant.

Dr. Larik holds a Ph.D. and an LL.M. 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, having received scholarships from NUFFIC, the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the Bayerische Begabtenförderung.

Grants and Fellowships

• Netherlands Institute for Advances Study (NIAS) Individual Fellowship (2020/21)
• Global Transformations and Governance Challenges Seed Grant (2020)
• Canadian Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces funded RWE-CAF Research Network (2020)
• Leiden Global Interactions Breed Grant (2018/19)
• Global Challenges Foundation (2018)
• Fulbright-Schuman Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington D.C (2017/18)
• MOOC-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
• The legal and global ramifications of Brexit

Courses

• Foreign Relations Law (LUC The Hague)
• Constitutions and Constitutionalism in a Globalizing World (LUC The Hague)
• Legal Methods Lab (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)

Publications