Joris Larik

Joris Larik is Assistant Professor of Comparative, EU, and International Law at Leiden University and Senior Researcher at The Hague Institute for Global Justice. His work has been acknowledged with several awards, including NATO’s Manfred Wörner Essay Award (2008), the Outstanding Paper Award from the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University (2012), and the Mauro Cappelletti Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Comparative Law (2014) from the European University Institute. In 2017, he received a Fulbright-Schuman Scholar grant to conduct research on Brexit and EU foreign policy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University in Washington D.C.

Dr. Larik is the author of "Foreign Policy Objectives in European Constitutional Law" (Oxford University Press, 2016) and co-author of "ASEAN’s External Agreements: Law, Practice and the Quest for Collective Action" (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Moreover, Dr. Larik has published in peer-reviewed academic journals including Common Market Law Review, European Foreign Affairs Review, European Law Review, Global Policy, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, Legal Issues of Economic Integration, Netherlands International Law Review, Survival, and Yearbook of European Law. Dr. Larik’s media appearances include interviews for Volkskrant and Trouw in the Netherlands and, internationally, to Agence France-Presse, China Central Television (CCTV), European Voice, the Guardian, Phoenix TV Hong Kong, Russian News Agency TASS and Xinhua.

Dr. Larik has worked on several policy-oriented research projects, including for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and the European Commission. In 2014/15, Dr. Larik served on the core project team for the Report of the Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance, co-chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Nigerian Foreign Minister Ibrahim Gambari, and convened in 2013/14 a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on The EU in Global Governance, which attracted approximately 20,000 students from all over the world.